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Customers train with Flying Fish for many reasons however, we are known for our training location, Sydney Australia. Australia offers so much in the way of lifestyle as well as the amazing playground which is Sydney Harbour. You will never get bored of sailing past the famous Sydney Opera House and under the iconic Sydney Harbour bridge!
As Yachtmaster Ocean, you would have all the skills and competence to skipper your own boat across an Ocean or work as a professional skipper or begin a career on a Superyacht.
The Yachtmaster Ocean certificate is the highest qualification available in the RYA scheme. The Yachtmaster Ocean qualification is for skippers who would like to skipper a yacht on passages of any length all over the world.
Flying Fish Yachtmaster Ocean course takes you from a novice sailor all the way to Yachtmaster Ocean. Our training programmes include all the skills, qualification and experience you need to become an Ocean Master. The course is designed for all ages and abilities, whether you are new to sailing or have been sailing for years but don’t have any formal qualifications. Whatever your sailing experience then we can make the course work for you. [links]
To become a Yachtmaster Ocean candidates will be experienced sailors with a good depth of knowledge of sailing inshore, offshore and on extended passages. you must have completed the Yachtmaster Offshore practical exam first before training towards your Yachtmaster Ocean. more
Sailors train for Yachtmaster Ocean because it provides the qualification that allows you to do everything, inshore, offshore and Ocean more
For those of you who have not done any spherical trigonometry since high school, don’t worry, we go back to the basics and re-explain the sine and cosine laws for planes and spheres (high school 10th grade). These laws are used throughout the course and it is important to understand how they are useful to calculate the length in degrees between 2 points or to calculate an angle (to compute an azimuth for instance or a longitude).
Our course package includes: boat rental and instructive materials, instructor’s fee, warm lunch made from fresh local ingredients (when on the boat). Our package does not include the Eco Tourism Development fee and has to be paid in cash. This ticket costs P200 and is valid for 10 days.
At the beginning of this course, we will take a trip back in time and start our journey of the stars with the first greek astronomers. We will pay respect to Eratosthenes and Aristarchus for their brilliant intuition and mathematical genius in discovering that our planet is a sphere and not at the center of the universe, more than 2000 years before Galileo and Copernicus. We will explore the first methods for finding a position using stars and how celestial objects locations in the celestial sphere were recorded in almanacs. On the way to modern times, we will salute Sumner and St Hilaire for giving us, back in the mid 19 th century, the 2 main methods used for sight reductions today.
This is a course for anyone serious about sailing. Celestial navigation is an important skill and is still taught today even though GPS have become so convenient and affordable. Even though the GPS system (and other similar services) are reliable, we are still at the mercy of solar flares which can disrupt permanently any satellites (as it nearly happen, by 1 week in 2012 according to NASA) and/or lightning strikes which will disable any electronic equipment on board.
The candidate must provide the examiner with the following information 48 hours prior to the exam:
Have completed a qualifying passage on board a sailing or motor yacht up to 500gt 1 which meets the following criteria: more
The exam consists of an oral and written test. [links]
During the oral test the candidate will be required to answer questions on all aspects of ocean passage making in a yacht, including passage planning, navigation, worldwide meteorology, crew management and yacht preparation, maintenance and repairs. more
Yachtmaster Offshore more
Conversely it is always a pleasure to sail with a competent skipper. The crew are well informed, well fed, relaxed and know what is expected of them. Arriving in port is a pleasure rather than an anxiety. Problems are anticipated and solved well before they become serious.
The examiner will be looking for a skipper who is in charge of the boat and crew and who runs a relaxed happy ship. Conversely a skipper who gives the examiner and crew an uneasy feeling down the back of the spine is unlikely to pass – you don’t have to be an examiner to spot lack of knowledge and inexperience.
Before leaving ensure the yacht is ready to go to sea and brief the crew. You will need to give a safety brief explaining how the kit works and when to use it. [links]
Depending on your personality and how fluent you are in English, you can opt between two excellent books.
If you hold the Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence, you may continue with the Yachtmaster Ocean. Similar to the Yachtmaster Offshore you might wish to buy two books to cover it. First of all a textbook for the syllabus and secondly a book to learn celestial navigation. The latter is, however, easiest done in classroom during a Reginasailing Yachtmaster Ocean theory course. more
Please note that Tom’s book does not cover the ColRegs, which, instead, is dealt with by the books on ColRegs mentioned above. under assessment 1 above. more
15. Navigation in restricted visibility
– Precautions to be taken in fog
– Limitations to safe navigation imposed by fog
– Navigation strategy in poor visibility