Weather At Sea Course For Sailors & Motorboat Skippers
Our one day course follows the RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course Syllabus and is taught by an RYA Yachtmaster instructor. It is aimed to help students who may never take the full Yachtmaster Theory course but would like to improve on their own understanding of weather systems and forecast information.
Run at our Shamrock Quay classrooms in Southampton starting at 9am running until about 5pm.
Saturday 13th April 2019
This course takes students with a basic theory level of weather understanding toward the Yachtmaster level.
The course does not give you any type of RYA qualification, but we do award an SBT certificate on completion.
Basic terms, the Beaufort scale
Areas covered in the day include :-
Air masses
Cloud types
Weather patterns associated with pressure and frontal systems
Sources of weather information
Ability to interpret a shipping forecast, weather fax and weather satellite information
Land and sea breezes
Sea fog
Use of a barometer as a forecasting aid
Cost is £69 per person.
Next Weather At Sea Course Dates
Saturday 11th May 2019
Please book via our online calendar.
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All RYA Courses are run by Solent Boat Training an approved and recognised RYA Training Centre.
All other events such as mile builders, experience days and sailing cruises are run by Solent Boat Charters.