Sailing school in Italy - Round World Experience

Training

Training programme, transforms novices and relatively inexperienced sailors into highly skilled yacht crew. Our unique approach inspires confidence in individuals to tackle challenging situations and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

- General rules
- Steering and sailing rules
- Sound and light signals
- Distress signals

Safety

- Safety harnesses
- Lifejackets
- Distress flares
- Fire prevention and fighting
- Knowledge of rescue procedures
- Helicopter rescue

Boat Handling

- Coming to and weighing anchor under power or sail in various conditions of wind and tide
- All berthing and unberthing situations in various conditions of wind and tide
- Recovery of man overboard
- Towing under open sea conditions and in confined areas
- Boat handling in confined areas under sail
- Boat handling in heavy weather
- Use of warps for securing in an alongside berth and for shifting berth or winding

General Seamanship, maintenance

- Properties, use and care of synthetic fibre ropes
- Knots
- General deckwork at sea and in harbour
- Improvisation of jury rigs following gear failure
- Engine operations and routine checks

Responsibilities of skipper/crew

- Skipper a yacht and manage the crew
- Delegation of responsibility and watch-keeping organisation
- Communication with the crew
- Preparing yacht for sea and for adverse weather conditions
- Tactics for heavy weather and restricted visibility
- Emergency and distress situations
- Victualling for a cruise and feeding at sea
- Customs procedures

Navigation

- Charts, navigational publications and sources of navigational information
- Chartwork including position fixing and shaping course to allow for tidal stream and leeway
- Tide and tidal stream calculations
- Bouyage and visual aids to navigation
- Instruments including compasses, logs, echo sounders, radio navaids and chartwork instruments
- Pilotage techniques
- Limits of navigational accuracy and margins of safety
- Passage planning and navigational tactics
- Lee shore dangers
- Use of electronic navigational aids

Meteorology

- Definition of terms
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Weather systems and local weather effects
- Interpretation of weather forecasts, barometer trends
- Ability to make passage planning decisions based on forecast information

Duration: 1 week or 4 weekend

Period 1 week: from 19st to 26st July

Period 4 weekend: 16st-17st, 30st-31st May, 6st-7st, 27st-28st June

Where: Marina Fezzano (Sp)

Price: € 650 for 1 week - € 720 for 4 weekend

Price includes: learning instruments, boat, instructor, and insurance (€ 30)

Price not includes: fuel, food and everything not in “the price includes”.