RYA ICC Flotilla Training Course

Aim: To teach personal safety, navigation and yacht handling skills required to charter a yacht on a flotilla holiday. 

Sail Handling

• Hoisting, setting, reefing and handling of sails
• Use of sheets and halyards and their associated winches

Rope Work

• Handling ropes, including coiling and securing to a cleat
• Ability to tie the following knots; clove hitch, bowline, round turn and two half hitches

Safety

• Understands how to use life jackets and a life raft
• Can operate distress flares
• Can carry out engine checks
• Understands the action to be taken to recover a man overboard
• Safe operation of the safety equipment
• VHF radio mayday procedure

Navigation

• Can interpret a navigational chart
• Can plot a fix onto a chart from GPS and visual bearings
• Can establish a course to steer
• Interpret navigational lights
• Source information for local port regulations
• Use of GPS in practical navigation

Rules of the Road

• Is able to keep a safe lookout at sea
• Understands the correct action to be taken to avoid a collision
• Is able to understand appropriate sound signals

Dinghies

• Understands and complies with loading rules
• Is able to handle a dinghy under oars

Meteorology

• Awareness of forecasting information and understands the Beaufort scale

Practical Sailing

• Understands the basic principles of sailing and can steer and trim sails on all points of sail
• Can safely carry out manoeuvres including tacking and gybing
• Can steer a compass course, under sail and power

Power Handling

• Can safely control the yacht in all situations ie., coming alongside, at anchor, securing to a mooring buoy
• Able to moor stern to and retrieve a lazy line