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RYA Sailing Scheme

Adult Courses

The Sports Section, RYA (Royal Yachting Association) Training Centre, offers a wide range of theoretical and practical courses, internationally recognized, designed to help participants acquire the skills necessary to sail safely and progress from beginner to advanced level. 

Useful information:

  • Certification courses for sailing technical levels: develop nautical skills while officially validating your level according to the RYA program. Instruction will be delivered using technical terminology in both English and French, in order to reflect international sailing practice as closely as possible.

  • Courses are organized in sessions of 3 consecutive days. To find out the schedule, please contact sectionsportive@ycm.org.

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Programme

RYA Dinghy Level 1 - Start Sailing

This course offers a short introduction to sailing for beginners.

By the end of the course, you will have gained a basic understanding of dinghy handling techniques as well as fundamental theoretical knowledge.

All participants are recommended to follow this short introduction with the “Basic Skills” and “Better Sailing” courses in order to consolidate their skills.

RYA Dinghy Level 2 - Basic Skills

By the end of this course, you will have a basic knowledge of sailing and will be able to sail in light winds without an instructor on board.

It is assumed that each participant starting this course already has the practical skills and theoretical knowledge acquired during the “Start Sailing” course.

Capsize recovery exercises, in either dinghies or multihulls, will be carried out in a controlled manner, one boat at a time, with an appropriate safety boat nearby.

RYA Dinghy Level 3 - Better Sailing

This advanced course is designed to bridge the gap between “Start Sailing”, “Basic Skills”, and the advanced modules, by providing an introduction to the different modules and helping sailors more easily choose their preferred path in sailing practice.

“Better Sailing” offers the opportunity to practice and consolidate sailing techniques, while also discovering some of the activities included in the advanced modules, encouraging self-confidence, good technique, and independence at the helm. 

The additional modules are optional for the validation of the “Better Sailing” course, but they provide an introduction to the various aspects of sailing. The choice of topics to explore should be discussed between the student and the instructor.

Whenever possible, students should have the opportunity to sail different types of dinghies during the course, either single-handed or double-handed.

  • Reservation & Information : Section Sportive : sectionsportive@ycm.org | +377 93 10 64 02
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