Weather At Sea Course For Sailors & Motorboat Skippers
Understanding The Weather
Our one day Weather at Sea course follows the RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course Syllabus and is taught by an RYA Yachtmaster instructor. It is aimed to help students who may never take the full Yachtmaster Theory course, but would like to improve on their own understanding of weather systems and forecast information.
This course aims to take students with a basic understanding of weather towards the Yachtmaster level.
£57.50
The course does not give you any type of RYA qualification, but we do award an SBT certificate on completion. Basic terms, the Beaufort scale
Areas covered in the day include:-
Air masses
Cloud types
Weather patterns associated with pressure and frontal systems
Sources of weather information
Ability to interpret a shipping forecast, weather fax and weather satellite information
Land and sea breezes
Sea fog
Use of a barometer as a forecasting aid
Run at our Shamrock Quay classrooms in Southampton starting at 9am running until about 5pm.
Cost is £69 per person.
