5 Day Competent Crew / Day Skipper / Coastal Skipper Schedule
This is an example of the schedule of activities covered on a Go-Sail.je 5 Day Competent Crew / Day Skipper / Coastal Skipper Course
Sunday
Sunday
- Check in at the Albert Pier Pontoon aboard your yacht for the week
- Meet your instructor and hand over passport photo for your course certificate
- Receive wet weather gear and sleeping bags and pillows if hired
- Stow personal equipment and familiarise yourself with spaces aboard
- Yacht safety briefing including gas and electric
- Highlight location of marina facilities and outline of the week
- Head into St Helier for evening meal and a drink as a crew, your instructor will most likely return home to their family for the evening
- 0800 Shower and freshen up followed by breakfast at one of the nearby cafés and check the weather forecast
- 0900 Skipper returns aboard
- Receive provisions for the week and stow them aboard
- Recap on yacht safety procedures, introduction to deck gear, ropes and rigging
- Engine checks, starting and stopping procedures.
- Boat handling exercises in the marina
- Short sail to familiarise crew with the yacht, a triangle course in St Aubin’s bay
- Pick up a mooring buoy or return to St Helier and prepare lunch
- Demonstration on passage planning from your instructor
- Your instructor will skipper the passage to your destination for the evening, demonstrating a MOB procedure. All students will have the opportunity to helm and trim sails
- Position fixing plotting exercises can be carried out on route
- Enter a new harbour, moor up and tidy the boat up
- Instructor’s debriefing on the day’s activities whilst dinner is cooking in the oven
- Dinner aboard followed by a trip ashore
- Shower and freshen up, breakfast, clean up and check weather forecast.
- The first student skipper will plan a passage to the moorings for lunch. The crew will be keeping a watch for any hazards and navigation marks and revise collision regulations. The instructor will explain considerations for a suitable mooring / anchorage, tidal heights, wind and weather conditions
- Entering and preparing for picking up a mooring or anchoring
- Lunch
- 2nd Student skipper plans the passage to the evening destination
- Sail and navigate to the evening destination and practice MOB en-route
- Arrive at the evening’s destination, moor up and tidy the boat
- Instructor’s debrief on the day
- Head ashore for evening meal
- Shower and freshen up, breakfast, clean up and check weather forecast
- Carry out anchoring exercise, sailing onto mooring buoys, MOB exercises for all
- Lunch
- Exercises in coming alongside a pontoon
- Sail to marina for early evening meal
- Arrive in marina and cook dinner
- Rest time in preparation for night sail
- Passage plan for the night sail, familiarisation with lights for collision regulations, buoyage and transits
- Begin night sail
- Moored alongside in new marina, tidy boat and debrief
- Shower and freshen up, breakfast, clean up and check weather forecast
- Boat handling techniques in a confined space
- Prepare lunch and prepare passage plan for the afternoon’s sail
- Sail to evening destination, on route the instructor will demonstrate the use of electronic navigation aids, GPS and Chart plotters and will discuss AIS
- Arrive at destination, discuss marina and mooring up etiquettes and the use of courtesy flags
- Debrief and head ashore for evening meal
- Shower and freshen up, breakfast, clean up and check weather forecast
- Depart and sail back to Jersey, practicing and discussing aspects covered during the course
- Anchor in St Aubin’s bay for lunch
- Return to Elizabeth marina, St Helier
- Clean yacht, return wet weather gear, sleeping bag and pillow followed by course debrief and issue of certificates
- 1600 Course complete and depart