Blue Sky Sailing

Start Yachting  provides a 2-day introduction to sail cruising for beginners. You will experience steering a yacht, sail handling, ropework and be aware of safety on board.  

.You will visit a local port and spend a night on the yacht beforer returning to Teignmouth.

This 5-day course for beginners and those who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers. By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day routines.

The course is normall run over a 2-day and a 3-day weekend visiting several local ports and sleeping onboard

Our practical Day Skipper Course is for aspiring skippers with some yachting experience and basic navigation and sailing skills. The Practical qualification is the sailing certificate that most charter companies require you to have before chartering a yacht.

It is split between 2-day and 3-day weekends and often runs alongside competent crew.

Essential navigation and seamanship is a 2 day course for beginners that introduces you to marine navigation. Covering topics such as charts & publications, safety, engine checks, tides, buoyage, rule of the road, weather anchoring plus more..

We also offer this as an evening course over the winter months.

During the coursee we will cover:

Basics of Seamanship

Essentials of Coastal Navigation and Pilotage

Chart Work & Electronic Charts

Position Fixing

Plotting a Course to Steer

Weather Forecasting & Meteorology

Tides - height and stream

Collision Regulations

Emergency & Safety Procedures including Distress Calls, the use of Flares, Safety Harnesses, Lifejackets and Liferafts

Join us for evening classes over the winter months

The syllabus is similar to Dayskipper Theory, but in more depth particularly with respect to:

Passage Planning

Collision Regulations

Weather and forecasting offshore