East Coast Offshore Yachting

Use East Coast Offshore Yachting to gain your RYA qualifications.

Shorebased courses, skippered charter, own boat tuition & yacht deliveries are available throughout the year.

Practical courses & mile building cruises are available between March & November.

All practical courses are run aboard a Baltic 37 based in Suffolk Yacht Harbour. Courses/mile building passages are run over varying periods of between 2 & 9 days. All practical courses are £95 per person/per day. Fee includes moorings, meals on board and fuel. The yacht was built by one of the worlds top quality builders & is maintained to the highest standard. To ensure that you get the most from your time afloat with us we have a maximum of four students plus a full time skipper/instructor with over 150,000 nautical miles of sailing experience. All meals on board are prepared by the skipper/instructor.

Base for all our East Coast practical courses:- Suffolk Yacht Harbour (SYH), Levington, Nr Ipswich, IP10 OLN. If you choose to partake in one of our mile building cruises we always arrange crew changes at locations that have good public transport services.

Provisional dates for practical courses 2010 (changes can be made to some dates).

Weekend, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7,& 9 day courses/cruises & mile building passages. Commencing 6th March.

6th/7th March. 2 days. E.Coast.

13th/14th March. 2 days. E.Coast.

20th/21st March. 2 days. E.Coast.

27th/31st March. 5 days . E.Coast.

2nd/3rd April. 2 days. E.Coast.

8th/11th April. 4 days. E.Coast.

19th/23rd April. 5 days. E.Coast.

24th/25th April. 2 days. E.Coast.

24th/28th April. 5 days E.Coast.

1st/3rd May. 3 days. E.Coast.

8th/11th May. 4 days. E.Coast.

15th/21st May. 5 days course + exam (coastal skipper or yachtmaster) . E.Coast.

22nd/23rd May 2 days. E.Coast.

29th May/4th June. 7 days. SYH-South Holland-SYH.

5th/6th June. 2 days. E.Coast.

12th/20th June. 9 days. SYH-France-Channel Islands-Solent (inc Round the Island Race).

23rd/29th June. 7 days. Solent-Channel Islands-Solent.

3rd/7th July. 5 days. Solent-SYH.

10th/14th July. 5 days. E.Coast .

31st July/4h August. 5 days. E.Coast.

7th/8th August. 2 days. E.Coast.

13th/15th August 3 days E.Coast (including a visit to The Company Shed seafood restaurant West Mersea).

21st/22nd August. 2days. E.Coast.

6th/10th Sept. 5 days. Yachtmaster Ocean qualifying passage.

14th/19th Sept. 5 days. Cruise to continent.

24th/27th Sept. 4 days. E.Coast.

2nd/3rd Oct. 2 days. E.Coast.

All courses start 2000hrs on the evening prior to the above dates & finish at 1700hrs on the last day.

Good passage planning requires a certain amount of flexibility. Due to the unpredictable nature of our weather we cannot guarantee to keep 100% to the above schedule. Refunds will not be given in the event of changes to sailing plans.

We operate a strict no smoking policy aboard the yacht.