Online theory day skipper or coastal/yachtmaster

[whisperjet]

May have missed this somewhere , but looking at doing an online theory course, have been on the web sites they all seem as good, anyone done one recently? Would appreciate any feedback, also should I go straight to coastal/yacht master and leave out the day skipper?

 

[alant]

May have missed this somewhere , but looking at doing an online theory course, have been on the web sites they all seem as good, anyone done one recently? Would appreciate any feedback, also should I go straight to coastal/yacht master and leave out the day skipper?

Why do you think you can jump a step?

 

[Ian tan]

Why wouldn't you?

I've just completed the yachtmaster and would recommend it if you have some basic experience on board.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Why wouldn't you?

I've just completed the yachtmaster and would recommend it if you have some basic experience on board.

+1

Yep, why not indeed. I did PB2, and then yachtmaster. It's not 'skipping a step', it's just identifying the training that's appropriate to your experience and requirements.

 

[Uricanejack]

Read each course and the syllabus.
You may find some are step by step so to get all the required syllabus covered you need to do both.

While others may start from scratch and cover the entire syllabus.
Personally I'd pick the one which does it all. But you may prefer a step by step route.

 

[benjenbav]

About 15 years ago I started doing a dayskipper course online. Yes kids, they had the internet back then. I sent one module off to be assessed which seemed fine and then I got bored and lazy and gave up.

Ten years later, after a reasonable amount of practical experience, I thought it would be interesting to have a go at the YM. I didn't feel the urge to sit in too many classrooms so I had a chat with a genuine expert instructor and the long and short was that he spent a day with me assessing my abilities in the different required skillsets.

This was quite an eye-opener for me; the verdict being that my boat-handling and ability to translate what was on the chart to the real world was fine, but I needed to work on picking up visual cues from the real world, paricularly at night, radar usage and - most particularly - getting the crew to do things rather than trying to do everything myself.

So we had a number of further sessions working on these areas and I did do some book-based revision on lights, shapes etc. Then I booked an examiner and took the exam on my boat.

 

[Mike k]

May have missed this somewhere , but looking at doing an online theory course, have been on the web sites they all seem as good, anyone done one recently? Would appreciate any feedback, also should I go straight to coastal/yacht master and leave out the day skipper?

might be worth talking to Chichester Maritime about the options.I did my DS with them and would recommend