Yacht Charters Vancouver Island

Level 5
Advanced Yachtmaster Offshore

The ultimate sailing course. Build your skills and confidence on this challenging 7 day course. This learning adventure takes you from Port 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.

• 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.
• A minimum of four participants is required for this course.

Level 5 AVI

Advanced Yachtmaster Offshore

Around Vancouver Island Advanced Yachtmaster

14 day circumnavigation of Vancouver Island

Join us for an exciting Yachtmaster Offshore Cruise 'N Learn around Vancouver Island. Ther 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.

• 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.
• A minimum of four participants is required for this course.

• A minimum of four participants is required for this