AIM: To teach pilotage, navigation, seamanship and boat handling to the standard required to skipper a Motor Cruiser safely by day in waters with which you are familiar.
 

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: You should already have basic helming ability and you would have been on a Motor Cruiser for two or three days in order to start this course.
 

THE COURSE: The course includes passage planning, navigation and pilotage, night cruising, anchoring, berthing and boat handling. Confidence in entering harbours and an emphasis on sound judgments and decisions are part of this course.
 

DURATION OF COURSE: The course is run over four days living onboard the boat.
 

CRUISING AREA: Clyde
 

ALTERNATIVES: This course may be run over two, two-day periods, either weekdays or weekends. The Helmsman and Day Skipper courses may be combined as a single five-day course.
 

ICC: This course equates to the I.C.C. for Power - Coastal and Inland (CEVNI Test Required)