RYA COASTAL SKIPPER YACHTMASTER THEORY COURSE

D5.1 Certification available

Essential Navigation and Seamanship
Day Skipper
Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore
Yachtmaster Ocean

D5.2 Minimum course duration

Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster
40 hours’ teaching plus assessment papers and homework. Courses run over a series of short sessions must allow additional teaching time for recap and revision in each session.
Intensive courses: may be run as an intensive course over a minimum of 6 days.

Yachtmaster Ocean
40 hours’ teaching plus assessment papers and homework. Courses run over a series of short sessions must allow additional teaching time for recap and revision in each session.
Intensive courses: may be run as a 5 day intensive course.

D5.3 Award criteria

Continual assessment during course plus completion of all questions in the Exercises and Course Information booklet and the assessment papers.

D5.4 Instructor qualifications

Course	Qualification
Yachtmaster Ocean	RYA Shorebased Instructor for Navigation who is also a holder of the Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate of Competence RYA Yachtmaster Instructor qualified before 1 March 2019 and is also a holder of the Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate of Competence

D5.5 Student:instructor ratio

Classroom courses: No more than 12 students per class, with a maximum of three students to a computer at any time is permitted.

D5.6 Course materials

Students in the same classroom must each use an 'Exercises and Course Information' booklet of the same edition i.e. from the same year of release. 

The edition is indicated in the first part of the code found on the bottom right of the front cover (see image below). The numbers denote, in this order: edition (year current course material published) / year course material was updated / reprint run. 

In addition, all students in the same classroom must use ‘Assessment’ papers from the same year for example 2017/18/x.

 

On successful completion of a course the Recognised Training Centre (RTC) must issue the student with the appropriate certificate, record the certificate in the logbook and keep a record at the centre.

Course	Compulsory	Recommended
Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore	YMAP student pack - northern hemisphere, or SYMAP student pack - southern hemisphere (incorporates certificate, assessment papers, course notes and exercises, practice charts, YM7 weather booklet). Each student must have access to: TAN Training Almanac - northern hemisphere TAS Training Almanac - southern hemisphere The current course material is: 2017/20/x Assessments: 2017/20/x	NP5011 Symbols and Abbreviations G158 Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus and Logbook G6 Navigation Handbook G7 Navigation Exercises G2 IRPCS G69 Passage Planning G133 Weather Handbook PCPD Portland course plotter and divider kit HP Handy plotter
Yachtmaster Ocean	OYM student pack (incorporates certificate, assessment paper, course notes and exercises, Sight Reduction Tables, Nautical Almanac) The current course material is: 2019/20/x Assessments: 2019/20/x	G158 Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus and Logbook G78 Astro Navigation Handbook G133 Weather Handbook

Many of the publications and packs above are also available as eBooks. See the Recognised Training Centre Price List for details.

Training aids: Visual aids appropriate to the courses being offered should be provided along with materials such as handbooks, videos, animations and eBooks. Instructors should also provide their own additional training aids.

RTCs offering the Essential Navigation and Seamanship course online via the RYA Interactive site may add supplementary information to their site area but must ensure that it follows the RYA syllabus.

D5.7 Equipment

Suitably equipped classroom allowing students to do chart work simultaneously. Computer and/or audio visual facilities.

D5.8 Online courses

Prior to offering the Essential Navigation and Seamanship course online, the centre must first be an RTC for classroom-based shorebased courses.