How old were you?

[Praxinoscope]

Rather than divert a current thread thought I might start a new on, just wondering about those who have their Yachtmaster Offshore, how old they were when they got it, I was 35: my daughter beat me by years and got hers at the age of 22.
She clocked up the necessary hours partly on my boat, but mainly on various Tall Ships Races.

 

[capnsensible]

I'm gonna be coy about my age.

But I passed the exam in 1990.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I'm gonna be coy about my age.

But I passed the exam in 1990.

So I'm not such a sprog after all. I was 32 back in 1992 when I did mine

 

[Wandering Star]

7th April 1988 so I must have been 41 years old. Started sailing in a manner of fashion when I was 8, we had an overgrown stream at the bottom of our rambling vicarage garden and I acquired a canvas covered sailing dinghy/punt which I used to slid e along over the thick treacly mud through bulrushes & brambles rather than sailing In open water.

 

[Praxinoscope]

Should have added that it was 1983 when I got mine.

 

[capnsensible]

Memories, eh?

I was young when my parents took me to the RYA office in Woking to get a Keelboat Logbook. 1971.,

 

[Richard10002]

47 in 2007

 

[PhillM]

I hope to do mine next year before I am 57

 

[Goldie]

26 and passed in 1987. YM(I) in 1991, and Ocean in 98.

 

[SaltyC]

54, eventually decided it would be better to get a piece of paper before the EU made it mandatory and costs went through the roof. Then we left the EU!!!

 

[mrming]

Qualified as a dinghy instructor in 1995 and have, shamefully, never completed another qualification since in 27 years of racing and cruising. Once my life calms down a bit with work and kids I plan to at least get a regular Yachtmaster like my late Dad, once of these forums. ?

 

[Kukri]

I’ve not got round to it. I’ve now done the shore based course three times (the first one had Morse in) at twenty year intervals but I’ve never got myself sufficiently organised to take the practical.

My sister was for a time the youngest YM; that was in the Seventies, and she was 17 or 18.

 

[Birdseye]

I'm gonna be coy about my age.

But I passed the exam in 1990.

About the same time for me.

 

[E39mad]

1994 aged 26

 

[Uricanejack]

No Y as of yet.
Stood my first watch uncertified over 40 years ago. (Pre STCW 78 coming into effect)
2nd Mate Fgn, just after I turned 21. Almost 40 years ago.
1st about 35 years ago
M was an little bit on the slow side 28 almost 29. 30ish years ago. First put it to use 30 years ago.

 

[sailaboutvic]

I can't remember it so long ago a good 40 years which would had made me ??????

 

[Skylark]

I’m very impressed by the experience quoted in the above posts ?

I came into this sailing malarkey quite late and only started to pull sheets in 1997. I did Offshore in 2006 and Ocean in 2010.

After retirement for a real job, I did CI in 2017 and YMI earlier this year. I’m now a very young 67 ?

 

[sailaboutvic]

It's frightening how time has sail by .
Boats size have got much bigger.once I could only dream of ownering a 25 footer
Sails made out of more tec material to go faster.
Batteries from a small one to keep a little light going to big lithium banks.
Navigation and electronics aids that will tell you the last time you had a shit
I guess the only thing that's not changing is a pencils, rubber rule and dividers
Which most of us still keep on board but very rarely use.
Actually I have two of each.

 

[Arcady]

46.

 

[Wansworth]

Patron de yate. 42yra. 1992