Yachtmaster pre-requisites

[Channel Ribs]

Originally Posted by martini

The important thing for me is not just getting the ticket but getting the experience and skills that are meant to go with it.

No Yachtmaster examiner is going to pass you unless he is satisfied that you meet (exceed even) the criteria, they are all very experienced mariners and trainers.

Originally Posted by RYA

Before your exam, be more adventurous than the usual weekend trip to your favourite anchorage. Enter some new harbours to refine your pilotage. Attempt the occasional night entry and be aware of the problems.

Does that strike any chords with you?

[martini]

Originally Posted by Channel Ribs

Does that strike any chords with you?

I'm no Alan Priddy but no, not really!

[Alan Priddy]

Or go to anywhere else in the world smartly dressed and smiling and blag it like most of the others do!!! Captains in the "Emerging " markets tend to employ on experiance. I know many Captains of Big boats who have no tickets at all. It is sad to say that the organisations around who fast track and train people to be brilliant have also done a lot of damage. Just because you have your tickets doesnt mean that you know much.The Skipper of Gypsy Moth who allowed it to run aground in the Pacific. The rumour is that the idiots at Cowes week who challenged the Oil Tanker were all yachtmasters and not to mention the British skipper of a superyacht who moored it up and left the engines running and in gear and wrecked 5 boats and a resturant in Hvar last month are points in case! I have tried to get numbers of " Qualified Skippers" who have had accidents compared to non qualified. For some resaon the numbers are not available. Experiance counts for everything. Alan P.

[dally]

unless he is satisfied that you meet (exceed even) the criteria,

if only I could believe that. Skipper of the dive boat I recently worked with left the services and went from never having been on boat to OCEAN(!!) yachtmaster in less than a year. Hmm something not quite right there methinks!

[Channel Ribs]

Originally Posted by martini

There's a local YM instructor who's been doing deliveries for the last 3 years, he's on his 3rd insurance claim already and none of them small!

Originally Posted by dally

Skipper of the dive boat I recently worked with left the services and went from never having been on boat to OCEAN(!!) yachtmaster in less than a year.