Duration
	5 Days (Sunday to Friday) Maximum 5 students per course.
	Price €850 (£650) per person
	Previous Experience
	5 days onboard, minimum 100 nautical miles and 4 night hours
	Course Content
	Navigation, pilotage, boat handling, seamanship and skippering techniques.
	Course Description
	Skippering a yacht for the first time can be a daunting yet exhilarating experience. The Day Skipper Practical Course is designed to teach you to “Take charge” safely and confidently. A skipper does much more than navigate, they are responsible for the complete safety and well being of the yacht and crew. These responsibilities include weather forecasting, victualling, engine maintenance, sail selection and handling, passage planning, watch keeping, navigation and pilotage. Your experienced and patient instructor will teach you these skills and you will put them into practice as you skipper the yacht on short passages around the Balearics. There is particular emphasis on boat handling for Day Skippers and during the 5 days you will practice mooring under various conditions. Students live aboard for the duration of the course and visit many different harbours and anchorages to practice pilotage techniques. You will complete at least 4 night hours sailing to experience night pilotage and identify lights. At the end of the course you will be confident to skipper a cruising yacht on short passages by day. Students who successfully complete the Day Skipper course are awarded the Day Skipper Completion Certificate and can charter from the school.
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Mallorca Yacht Charter & Training, Paseo Maritimo 1, AlcudiaMar Marina Local 5A Puerto Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain. Tel: +34 971 54 93 94 Fax: +34 97154 93 94