Day Skipper for Sail and Power

The Essential Manual for the RYA Day Skipper Certificate

Authors:	Roger Seymour and Alison Noice
Published:	2023
Format:	Hardback, 208 pages
Size:	246 × 189 × 19 mm

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Complete Guide to the RYA Day Skipper Course

Roger Seymour and Alison Noice’s practical guide to the RYA Day Skipper course, covering navigation, seamanship, weather, safety and engine operation for sail or power.

The ideal reference book for anyone following the RYA Day Skipper course.

With a refreshingly practical approach, illustrated throughout with clear diagrams, worked examples and colour photography, this fourth edition covers all the theory and practical aspects of the RYA Day Skipper Certificate. Fully updated in line with the syllabus, and taking in new technology and navigation techniques such as thermal imaging and radar, as well as developments in yacht design and multihulls, this is a clear and comprehensive manual for anyone taking the Day Skipper exam or intending to make coastal passages in a small boat. Topics include:

Seamanship
Safety equipment
Preventing collisions at sea
Navigation and chart work
Tides and tidal streams
Pilotage and passage planning
Weather
Engine operation and maintenance
VHF radio procedures

By the same authors as the highly successful Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, this lively, helpful guide is the perfect companion to the course, whether for sail or power.

1 About boats – sail and power
2 Knowing the ropes
3 Anchors and anchoring
4 Keeping safe
5 Communications – using the VHF radio
6 Avoiding a collision with other craft
7 The engine
8 About charts
9 Compasses
10 Chartwork – first steps
11 Tides and tidal streams
12 Finding our position
13 Course to steer
14 Buoys, beacons and lights
15 Pilotage – finding your way into creeks and harbours
16 Looking at the weather
17 Fog
18 Passage planning

About the Authors

Roger Seymour is Hamble School of Yachting’s senior instructor. He also advises World Cruising Club members embarking on Atlantic crossings and other international rallies.

Alison Noice was a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She trained and examined instructors for the Short Range Radio certificate and ran Yachtmaster and Day Skipper shorebased courses at her local yacht club.