RYA Logbook Advanced skills Seamanship skills
Learning skills a short step beyond Stage 4 ; during this course you will polish and test your skills and learn to re-solve problems afloat. The course will give you a solid foundation for the future and enable you to become much more confident and self-sufficient afloat.

Launching and recovery**
Can leave and return to beach, jetty or mooring - windward /leeward shore.
Ropework
Can tie a fishermans bend and a sheet bend
Sailing techniques and manoeuvres
Is able to :
Heave to
Reef afloat
Recover MOB
Be towed
Anchor t
Sail backwards
Sail in adverse circumstances **t
Coastal option
Capable of practical application of skills in coastal waters
Can use local tide table
Understand Rule of twelfths and is aware of tidal streams
Has a basic understanding of charts and important symbols

Sailing theory
Understand terminology: windward, leeward, abeam, forward, aft, ahead, astern, to weather, downwind, amidships, quarter, pinching, sailing by the lee, luff, bear away, planing, sternway, broaching.
Knows and can apply the following International Regulations for the Prevention of Collision at Sea (IRPCS):
meeting other sailing vessels, meeting power driven vessels, following or crossing narrow channels, action by the stand-on vessel
Capsize recovery
Knows how to recover from a total inversion
Meteorology
Knows sources of information on weather patterns for the day
Can interpret forecasts and understand local effect
Aware of Beaufort Scale and changing weather conditions

** Not necessarily applicable to keelboats
t not necessarily applicable to multihulls