Yachtmaster Exercises for Sail and Power

Questions and Answers for the RYA Yachtmaster Certificate

Authors:	Roger Seymour and Alison Noice
Published:	2024
Format:	Paperback, 112 pages
Size:	246 × 189 × 15 mm

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RYA Yachtmaster Practice and Revision Guide

Companion to Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, this study guide offers practice exercises, charts and worked answers for all RYA Yachtmaster theory topics.

Yachtmaster Exercises for Sail and Power is a partner to Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, providing extra navigational practice for students and helping them to absorb the course theory.

This revision handbook contains practice exercises and test papers with fully explained answers on all parts of the Yachtmaster course, whether sail or power. It covers chartwork, tides, pilotage and passage planning, as well as seamanship, anchorwork, ropework and rules of the road.

A free practice chart is included, as well as extracts from tide tables, tidal curves, almanacs and pilotage notes so that students can complete the questions, work on real-life sailing scenarios and plot their own courses without the need for any other material.

This revised fifth edition includes the latest updates, new artwork and a modern, user-friendly design. It is an invaluable textbook and exam revision guide for anyone studying for the RYA exams or simply brushing up on their navigation skills.

Introduction
Exercises
1 Charts
2 Compass
3 Position Fixing
4 Buoys, Lights and Lighthouses
5 Tidal Heights
6 Tidal Streams
7 Course to Steer
8 Dead Reckoning and Estimated Position
9 Electronic navigation and instruments
10 Pilotage
11 Collision Regulations
12 Meteorology
13 Safety and Communications
14 Planning and Making Passages
Chartwork test papers
15 Test Paper 1
16 Test Paper 2
Answers
Extracts
1 Tides: Dover, May to August
2 Tides: Dover, September to December
3 Tidal Streams, based on HW Dover
4 Tidal Streams, based on HW Dover
5 Tides: St Helier
6 Port Information: St Helier
7 Tidal Curves: St Helier
8 Tidal Curves: Cherbourg
9 Tides: Cherbourg
10 Tides: St Malo
11 Tidal Curves: St Malo
12 Port Information: St Malo
13 Port Information: St Peter Port
14 Port Information: Granville and Îles Chausey
15 Port Information: Diélette
16 Deviation Curve
17 Tidal Differences for Cherbourg–Barfleur

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.