YM Sail to Power conversion course...........interested?

[Fascadale]

I want to convert my YM Sail to YM Power. I've discussed a package with a provider that would include the use of a boat for two days plus one and a half days tuition/exam prep, leaving half a day for the exam.

I'm looking for one or two others who may wish to "convert" to share the cost of this package, c.£800.00, not including the exam fee. The course would be on the Clyde and on a date to be agreed (preferably in the first half of 2017)

The pre-exam requirements for the conversion exam are available on the RYA website

 

[Daedelus]

Converting between sail and power

Holders of the Yachtmaster™ Coastal or Yachtmaster™ Offshore sail Certificate of Competence may take a conversion exam to obtain the equivalent power certificate of competence. Candidates may also convert from power to sail.



The same rules apply whether you are converting from sail to power, or from power to sail, but the exam for converting from power to sail may take slightly longer.

Exam duration

The exam will take about three hours. The examiner may ask questions or set tasks on any part of the syllabus but will concentrate on those sections which are markedly different in a motor cruiser, eg boat handling, passage planning, radar.

Pre-exam requirements

The mileage shown below must be in the type of boat that you are converting to. All qualifying seatime must be within 10 years prior to the exam. Half of the qualifying seatime must have been conducted in tidal waters.

For Yachtmaster™ Coastal conversion exams
Minimum of 400 miles
12 days living on board
2 days as skipper
12 night hours

For Yachtmaster™ Offshore conversion exams
Minimum of 1250 miles
25 days living on board
3 days as skipper
3 passages over 60 miles including 1 overnight and 1 as skipper

 

[Uricanejack]

Admittedly I'm not very familiar with the RYA. I can certainly see why an experienced power boat skipper. Would want or be required to take a sailing course. If they have never done any sailing.

Unlike most people here, I never sailed dinghies. I started as a power boater. Catching the sailing bug latter. At the time I first went sailing I was a capable power boat deck hand, navigator, even skipper.
Picking up how to sail was just in my mind an add on to knowledge I already had. Figuring out how the sails work, Then, Bobs your Uncle, off you go is all you need.

As a sailor. My sail boat is also a power boat. It has sails which I enjoy using. It also has a diesel engine. I often, ok sometimes use it to get from here to there.
All the skills required to be a YM are used why would a sailing YM need to do a conversion to be a power YM.

Do you need separate power YM for single and Twin screw. ? Apparently not.
Displacement, Semi Displacement, Planing?
|does it make a difference.
Does a rib or runabout qualify?

I just don't see what would be missing from a YM who did his YM on a sail boat?
I honestly thought there was just a Yachtmaster. Not Yachtmaster Sail. Although I did see there are RYA powerboat levels.

Enjoy the course.