Training weekend for those new to boating or on courses - Sat 11th & 12th May 2024

Whilst our Day Skipper and Yachtmaster courses are shore based, there is much in each syllabus that benefits hugely from getting on a real boat. Whether it is learning to use the radar, doing engine and boat safety checks, or just going out and identifying a few marks, the trainees always enjoy a day or two on board. The second of several training weekends in the Solent will enable separate groups of trainees, or those new to boating, to have a day or two on Lindisfarne, a Nelson 42. Designed originally as a pilot boat, a Nelson is an ideal boat for training purposes. Apart from the usual, and important, preliminary checks of engines, radios and safety matters, the trainees will learn to “walk a boat”, and we shall be doing MOB exercises, how to recover a causalty, blind and radar navigation, and passage and pilotage plans. Piloting a boat into Portsmouth Harbour or down the Solent at night is one experience to add to many. No cost, except for a Saturday night meal out somewhere. We will coincide with the LSC buoy challenge rally No.2 and join them for the Saturday
evening dinner

Please contact: Barry Denyer-Green 

Barry is a Yachtmaster (power) and RYA Cruising Instructor