Yacht Charters Vancouver Island

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Offshore Ocean

The ultimate sailing course. Build your skills and confidence on this challenging 7 day course. This learning adventure takes you from Deep Cove Marina, Sidney though the Juan De Fuca Strait to Barclay Sound and Ucluelet. This intensive course of instruction will challenge the abilities of the most experienced sailor and enhance those skills developed in previous levels. The development of a watch system for an extended night passage, MOB drills at night, performance sail trim, spinnaker handling, and the use of electronic aids to navigation are but a few skills which will be covered on this extended cruise which will take you to wherever the wind blows.

ASA108 Offshore Passage making
Prerequisites: All previous Keelboat Standards
Description: The sailor is able to safely act as skipper or crew of a sailing vessel on offshore passages in any weather. The Celestial Nav. Standard is performed.

Yachtmaster Offshore The holder is certified as the skipper and navigator, to be responsible for the safety of his/her sailing vessel and crew, while making offshore passages within 150 miles of the coastline, where navigational and weather hazards exist, in any conditions, at any time day or night. covers the skills needed to be able to safely act as skipper and crew in a sailing cruiser on an offshore passage requiring celestial navigation.

• Prerequisites: Coastal Skipper, Coastal navigation, VHF radio certificate; First Aid Certificate; and CPR certification. Completing the Advanced Navigation Standard is highly recommended. You must have completed at least 100NM as the skipper of a yacht to enter this program.
• A minimum of four participants is required for this course.

Advanced Crew Standard - To be able to act safely as crew of a sailing cruiser of 10 – 15 meters, any modern rig and inboard engine, operating within 100 miles of shore by day and night in coastal or coastal or inland water in any weather.
Advanced Cruising Standard - To be able to act safely as skipper and crew of a sailing cruiser of 10 – 15 meters, any modern rig and inboard engine, operating within 100 miles of shore by day and night in coastal or inland water in any weather.
Offshore Standard - To be able to safely act as skipper and crew in a sailing cruiser on an offshore passage navigated by celestial and electronic means without visual reference to terrestrial objects.

Around Vancouver Island Advanced YachtMaster

14 day circumnavigation of Vancouver Island

Join us for an exciting YachtMaster Offshore Cruise 'N Learn around Vancouver Island. The first leg of this voyage will take you from Sidney to the northern tip of Vancouver Island to Port Hardy through a maze of islands with tidal currents running up to 15 knots. Occasional stops will be made in remote anchorages. The second leg will introduce students to a taste of some serious open ocean sailing with occasional landfalls as we make our way back to Sidney via the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

Prerequisites: Coastal Skipper, Coastal navigation, VHF radio certificate; First Aid Certificate; and CPR certification. Completing the Advanced Navigation Standard is highly recommended.

•  Minimum practical experience of 600 miles, 10 days as a skipper.
• The course content includes offshore passage making, advanced navigation Seamanship and offshore weather.