PLEASE NOTE AFTER 13/06/2022 WEEKEND SAILS WILL NO LONGER BE OFFERED UNLESS VIA CHARTER.
Instead, we will be running Saturday Sails.
Weekend Sail courses start at 1830 on Friday and finish mid afternoon on Sunday.
Our weekend sailing courses are suitable for anyone wanting to book the following:
- RYA Start Yachting
- RYA Competent Crew (3 weekends in total are required)
- RYA Day Skipper Sail (3 weekends in total are required)
- International Certificate of Competence – ICC (please check your experience with the office first)
- Just to go Yachting!
The courses listed below can be booked and paid for online, please note the booking and payment process for courses is managed by our parent company SeaRegs Training. When you click the book now button you will be transferred to the SeaRegs online booking management system.
Please contact us if you would like to discuss your course choice and/or pay by bank transfer or cheque.
We accept the following cards for online booking, please contact the office if you would prefer to pay by bank transfer.
Click to view our Terms and Conditions including our refund policy.
Plymouth Sailing School and Plymouth Powerboating has courses running throughout the year, the next couple of months course dates are listed above however most of the year has already been planned. Please contact us for details of dates not listed, practical courses take place most weeks and weekends from March through to November and less frequently from November to February.
Please contact us if you would like to discuss your course choice and/or pay by bank transfer or cheque.
We accept the following cards for online booking, please contact the office if you would prefer to pay by bank transfer. Click to view our Terms and Conditions including our refund policy.
Weather on Courses: When training on our vessels, we are always subject to environmental conditions. Some courses can be more affected than others. We are based in Plymouth, therefore we are subject to the vagaries of British weather. On any given week or weekend, we can have no wind, too much wind, fog, too much sun, snow – sometimes they all happen on the same day….
On sailing courses wind is the key issue. Therefore there is a rare chance that you may not sail every day. If we can sail safely, we will. In high winds, luckily, Plymouth is a very sheltered harbour from most wind directions, therefore we can often get to shelter and then sail in those areas within our very large harbour and rivers. Please also bear in mind that if we cannot sail, we will cover theory subjects as all RYA practical courses still have approximately 30% theory in the course which we normally break up into chunks throughout the week/weekend, but we may save them for the windy/no wind/foggy times.
In extremes: There are also those weekends or weeks when the weather is simply diabolical and we get a week of Force 9-10’s when we may just call and stop the course, usually beforehand if it is well forecast. More often than not we get a day or so of poor weather and work around it.
All courses: On all courses our aim is to complete the course in the safest way possible, covering all the theory and practical elements. We are not able to guarantee courses will have practical sessions on every day as we will work around the weather forecast