RYA Basic Skills (Level Two)
Min age: 16Duration: 2 days
This level 2 keel boat training provides you with the understanding and basic skills to become a confident sailor in light winds under the supervision of an instructor.
Course Content:
- Rigging
- Rope work
- Sailing techniques and manoeuvres (sail setting, balance and trim) leaving and returning to a mooring lee shore
- Rules of the road
- Points of sail
- Understand tides
- Meteorology
- Use of an engine
- Anchoring
- Reefing afloat
- Rules of the road
Course Fees:
£220 per person / £375 with 1:1 tuition / £450 for 3 students|
LEVEL 1
Introducing you sailing with all you need to know to get afloat under supervision |
LEVEL 2
Setting out the foundations of sailing for you |
LEVEL 3
Consolidating skills and trying new ones |
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| Assumed knowledge | None | Sailing skills to the standard of Level 1 | Sailing skills to the standard of Level 2 |
| Minimum duration | 2 days | 2 days, but is often combined with the Level 1 course into a 4 or 5 day course | 2 days or equivalent |
| Minimum age | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Course content | How to sail in all directions, including an awareness of launching and recovering | Rigging, launching, sailing in all directions. essential safety knowledge | Coaching of level 1 and 2 skills and taster sessions from the advanced modules |
| Ability after course |
Able to sail in light winds under supervision
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Able to sail and make decisions in good conditions
| More confident in sailing skills and techniques, and ready to progress onto the advanced modules |