Shorebased Courses:
Day Skipper | Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster | Yachtmaster Ocean | Radar | Radio | First Aid | Diesel Engine | Cevni | ISAF | Sea Survival | Boat Electrics | Yacht and Boat Systems | Yacht Rigs and Rigging Course | Yacht Sail Design and Maintenance Course | Navigational Instrument Course
We offer a full range of Shorebased Courses which you can either do as intensive weekday courses, or over two weekends. Our Radar course, Diesel Engine, GMDSS, and First Aid courses are all one day, and we try and operate these over the weekends for your convenience.
Please see our course calendar for more information, and our price list. If there is a particular course which you would like to do and is not listed at a time to suit you, please call us, we may be able to accommodate the course at another time, this is particularly possible if there is more than one of you wanting to take the course - but even if it is only for you, just ask!
Why choose Dart Harbour Sea School? We offer all our customers 5 star service and low student-instructor ratios.
As part of the South West Marine Training school affiliation we can offer comfortable classroom facilities in Dartmouth, Brixham and Paignton with excellent visual aids and learning facilities.
Accommodation can be arranged at special rates from £20 per night B&B or we can often offer accommodation on a boat if available
Essential Navigation and Seamanship.
Duration: 2 days (available over the weekends)
Includes: Good grounding and introduction to navigation.
Open to: All
Cost: £275
Day Skipper
Duration: 5 days (can be taken as an intensive course, or over weekends, see our course calendar).
Includes: basic seamanship and introduction to navigation and meteorology
Open to: preferably people with some practical experience
Cost: £385, for the 5 days to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster theory
Duration 5 days (can be taken as an intensive course, or over weekends, see our course calendar).
Includes: offshore and coastal navigation, pilotage and meteorology.
Open to: people with navigation to day skipper shorebased standard.
Cost: £385, for the 5 days to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!).
Yachtmaster Ocean
Duration 5 days (can be taken as an intensive course, or over weekends, see our course calendar).
Includes: astro-navigation, ocean meteorology and passage planning.
Open to: people with navigation to coastal skipper and yachtmaster offshore shorebased standard.
Cost: £525 for the 5 days to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
Please call for dates.
Radar
Duration: 1 day
Includes: basic understanding of radar use in small boats as an aid to navigation and for collision avoidance.
Open to: all
Cost: £90, for the 1 day to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
GMDSS-Radio Course
Duration: 1 day
Includes: use of VHF radio and GMDSS equipment, learn how to send distress signals, successful completion of this course gives the over 16’s their licence.
Open to: all
Cost: £90, for the 1 day to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
First Aid
Duration: 1 day
Includes: covers a range of situations, which could happen at sea, and how to cope with them/treat them until help arrives.
Open to: all
Cost: £90, for the 1 day to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
Diesel Engine
Duration: 1 day
Includes: Principles, fuel system, cooling systems, fault finding, spares, tools, winterising
Open to: all
Cost: £90, for the 1 day to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
Sea Survival
Duration: 1 day
Includes: Wet training procedures as well theory of survival.
Cost: £95, for the 1 day to include course books. (no hidden extra costs-only getting to us!)
CEVNI (European Inland waterway requirement)
This can be taken at any time whilst on another course, or as a stand alone test, at a cost of £25.
Courses on demand below:
Boat Electrics
Yacht and Boat Systems
Yacht Rigs and Rigging Course
Yacht Sail, Design and Maintenance Course
Navigational Instrument course
Includes tea/coffee & light refreshments. £30 licence fee payable
Price includes tea/coffee, course workbooks & charts. Free loan of navigation instruments if required.
Includes tea/coffee & light refreshments.
Price includes tea/coffee, course workbooks & charts. Free loan of navigation instruments if required.
Includes tea/coffee & light refreshments.
Price includes tea/coffee, course workbooks & charts. Free loan of navigation instruments if required.
Includes handbook, tea/coffee provided, Practical session in a heated pool.
Price includes tea/coffee, course workbooks & charts. Free loan of navigation instruments if required.
Price is for the test only. Text books for self tuition available on request
Price includes tea/coffee, course workbooks & charts. Free loan of navigation instruments if required.
