RYA  Courses in Sheffield.
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At Sail North, we offer top-notch RYA courses in Sheffield, designed to enhance your navigational skills and ensure your safety on the water. Whether you're a boat owner looking to secure your vessel and insurance, or planning to charter and need proof of training, our comprehensive courses are tailored to meet your needs.

Review the course links above to learn more.

Next VHF radio Saturday
9th May
CLASSROOM - real radios - completed in the day

DAYSKIPPER and YACHTMASTER CLASSROOM

 A mix of full day SATURDAYS and evenings to complete by FEB 26

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Some sailors choose e-learning. SailNorth offers competitive Online  Dayskipper, Yachtmaster, Ocean, and Combined Courses See both the subject page and the ONLINE page to obtain the full syllabus and reduced price details.

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Our Shore-based courses are classroom based and follow the RYA syllabus and testing. Courses progress over the winter months to allow adequate time to absorb the wide spread of knowledge within the subjects - an unrealistic aim when the theory is combined jointly with intensive practical courses.

At Sail North we have a wide experience sailing varied locations around the UK, Atlantic, Med, and USA. Interaction with other class members, recounting experiences, different methods, problems, anecdotes etc. all make for fun courses, a deeper appreciation, and developing contacts.

VHF Radio for boaters DSC/SRC Sheffield
Next VHF radio
Saturday 9th May
CLASSROOM COURSE - completed in the day

Yachtsmen, and Cruisers, require the VHF Radio license by law, but just as important the training to use the equipment correctly.
European charter companies require that a member of a bareboat hire crew holds the license.

Next course>>  9th May in Sheffield; 09-17.00; Course and exam complete in the day using the real equipment you have trained on.
course cost £84. 

Club courses, dates and venue, by arrangement.
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 Online courses require a trip to an examination centre, maybe distant, and familiarization with real equipment which is not the same as the virtual kit that you have trained with online.

Boaters, both owners and also occasional charterers' need to be able to use the VHF radio for general communication and especially for issues of safety. The modern VHF DSC system is invaluable.
The course objectives are to train you to be able to use different radios in both normal and emergency situations; to communicate clearly and correctly bearing in mind you may be speaking to a foreign radio operator; to understand the benefits of the GMDSS (global maritime distress and safety system) and associated equipment, EPIRB, AIS, NAVTEX; to Send or Relay Mayday alarm; and of course to attain your RYA/MCA radio licence.

Course content includes Hands on practical use of DSC radios in various circumstance of normal use; Connection through DSC (digital selective calling); Emergency call use; Speech procedures; VHF range, Channel numbers; Finding channel numbers; Rules and regulations; Licenses both you and the boat; GMDS safety systems; MAYDAY alerts; PANPAN, and URGENCY alerts.
 

The VHF course is a full one day course typically held at the weekend during the autumn/winter months. The course includes the final test on the day by an independent examiner. Actual radios, not simulators, are used and course numbers are restricted to enable close involvement of all participants.

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BLOG Click the handheld radio to open our VHF blog, and then if you like to all our blogs with past trips and photos.
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DaySkipper Shorebased Theory Course Sheffield.
The entry course to basic seamanship.

Dayskipper provides the navigation skills necessary to manage cruising yachts and motor cruisers that you charter, or own. The course is set to a level and pace appropriate for beginners and people with little experience yet all the topics mentioned below are dealt with to enable a good understanding.
The course is fun with a wide syllabus which is similar to the Yachtmaster course syllabus. As such Dayskipper is also suitable for experienced sailors and where applicable the more rigorous requirements of the Yachtmaster subject matter will be individually addressed, for example the specific calculation of secondary port tide heights.

DAYSKIPPER Shore-based next CLASSROOM course
 
October 2026

Also ONLINE page ANYTIME courses offer

Click 'contact' above (or phone/message 07771 652123)
to register your interest.

BLOG > Click the boat to link to the 'stern-to mooring blog' applicable to harbours in the Med, and then if you like to all our blogs with past trips and photos.

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Dayskipper comprises 20 evenings of 2 hours over the autumn and winter months as you plan your trips for next year.

Course content includes Compass and chart navigation; GPS and Plotter navigation; Tide flows and heights; Anchoring and mooring principles; Buoyage; Lights; Rules of the road (the seagoing code); Safety and rescue at sea; Pilotage (getting out and in); Passage planning; Weather.

A wide syllabus which benefits from involvement with others and at a relaxed pace.

mooring methods                         tides