What is Cruiser Sailing?

Sailing yachts are sailing boats with accommodation. This means that you can eat and sleep on board as well as fit in loads of friends and family. Because of their size and accommodation sailing yachts offer huge flexibility. Overnight trips, whole holidays as well as competitive racing are all possible with friends and family.

What is Motor Cruising?

Motor yachts are larger motor boats with accommodation. This means that you can eat and sleep on board as well as fit in loads of friends and family. Because of their size, accommodation and speed motor yachts let you explore where you want and then stay overnight. Yet they are usually easy enough to manage with only 2 people.

Why do an Irish Sailing Training Course?

An Irish Sailing training course provides the ideal way to get afloat for the first time, or to build on skills you already have. All courses are run to a syllabus used all over Ireland and will be lead by a trained and qualified Irish Sailing Instructor. Each course is carefully designed to provide you with all of the skills and confidence you need to get you out on the water and to get the most out of your boating.

Where to do your Irish Sailing Training Course?

Irish Sailing Training Centres have all gone through a rigorous accreditation process to ensure that they provide high quality training in a safe environment. With Training Centres based in every corner of Ireland there are plenty to choose from for training close to home or while on holiday.

⛵ Find a training centre here

 

Sailing Yacht Practical Training Courses

These courses are run at sea on board a cruising yacht

Competent Crew
Day Skipper
Yachtmaster Coastal (course attendance certificate)

Motor Yacht Seabased Training Courses

These courses are run at sea on board a motor yacht.

Helmsman Certificate Day Skipper Yachtmaster Coastal (course attendance certificate)

Yachtmaster Certificate

There are three Irish Sailing Yachtmaster Certificates and each is a practical examination that records and certifies your ability as a master of a sailing or motor yacht. 

Each exam has pre requisite log book requirements.

In order to be examined for the Yachtmaster Certificate please contact your local Irish Sailing Cruising School to arrange an examination. Go to the link here Irish Sailing > Training > Find A Training Centre and select National Cruising Scheme

 

To then apply for your certificate, download your application form FROM HERE and send it to head office.

Full details on the application process are all on the form and if you would like any advice or support please contact Nuala on training@sailing.ie.

Irish Sailing Yachtmaster Coastal Exam Logbook Requirements

The following logged within 10 years of the exam in either motor or sail yacht as appropriate ...

• 800 miles • 25 days at sea, 3 days as skipper • 12 night hours.

Where a candidate holds a course completion certificate from a shorebased course in either the RYA Day Skipper or Yachtmaster then the logged requirements are as follows ...

• 600 miles. • 20 days at sea, 3 days as skipper • 12-night hours.
(Mileage completed during Irish Sailing certified Coastal Skipper practical courses may be included in the logged requirements)

Irish Sailing Yachtmaster Offshore Exam Logbook Requirements

You need to provide the following details logged in a cruising boat within the last 10 years. All mileage requirements requested will need to be detailed in a logbook.

 • 3000 miles.* • 50 days at sea. • 6 days as skipper. • 30 night watch hours.

Passages must be varied, greater than 60 miles in length, 2 of which must have been outside of Irish waters. These may include passages that you have included elsewhere in your log.

* The total mileage may be reduced to 2500 miles if you have completed an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course. Mileage logged during any Irish Sailing accredited cruising training courses may be included.

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