>Essential Marine Cookery Course
Aim: Learn about the industry standards in food preparation, cookery practice on large vessels and to work as a crew cook or yacht host.
Overview: This course is aimed at professionals already in the industry who would like to add value to their CV’s or for the new comer to the industry who would like to learn an essential skill and then build their confidence and enjoyment when catering for guests and crew.
Presented by a highly qualified chef with industry experience, the program will provide industry standard basic cookery and preparation skills.
So whether you burn water or able to cater for many, this course will provide you with the insight and confidence to take care of the catering tasks onboard any vessel.
Pre-requisite None
Duration: 20 days
7 days STCW 95
2 days RYA Power Boat Level II
12 days Marine Cookery Course
Experience: No previous yachting experience is necessary. However a love for the ocean, travel and hard work ethic is a must.
Qualifications: RYA Power Boat Level II, STCW 95, Marine Cooker Course.
Benefits:
- Diversity your skills set onboard a vessel thereby making yourself more employable.
- Prepare a 3 course meal onboard a yacht and prepare a 5 day menu plan with photos on your presentation.
- Learn about menu planning, food provisioning, stowage and hygienic.
On the water: Gain practical experience in tender driving, theory and practical work.
Experience working on a super yachts galley in a small confined space.
RYA Power Boat Level II
A RYA Powerboat training course allows you the best of both worlds – your chance to drive someone else’s boat and the opportunity to gain the experience and knowledge to be safe afloat. More importantly you will come away understanding how boats work, the equipment you will need and the type, style and design features. This course teaches you boat handling and seamanship in powerboats.
The Power Boat level II course runs over 2 days and covers the following:
- How to start power boating
- Personal buoyancy and clothing
- Part of the boat
- Types of crafts
- Engines and drives
- Boat control
- Crew and rope work
- Trailing and launching
- Boat handling
- Turning
- Coming alongside
- Leaving
- Mooring buoys
- Anchoring
- Collision regulations
- Day shapes and lights
- Man overboard
- Summoning assistance
- Charts
- Navigation, Passage planning and pilotage
On Land:
Marine Hospitality Cookery Course
This essential 3 day course will cover the following modules with you:
- How to get a job on a yacht that suits you
- How to present yourself for dock-walking and interviews
- Living and working on a yacht
- Where to stay and how to network correctly
- Listings of all the big crew agencies and crew houses
- How to set up your profile on the crew agency sites
- How to set up your CV according to the yachting agencies and yacht owners criteria
- Planning a charter
- How to conduct yourself onboard
- Correct storage of utensil in the galley
- Shopping and provisioning for the best quality
- Safety in the galley
- Stock control and correct storage of stock
- Costing and shopping for the next day
- Breakfast buffet style
- Starters
- Wine tasting
- Main courses
- Desserts
- Canapés
- Coffee / teas and cocktails
- Getting along with other crew members onboard
- Attending to guests
- Passports and visas, what embassy you need to go to
Marine Radio Short Range Certificate (RYA SRC)
A one-day course for anyone who owns or operates a fixed or hand held-marine VHF radio
The Short Range Certificate is the qualification required by law if you operate a VHF radio fitted with Digital Selective Calling (DSC) on any British vessel voluntarily fitted with a radio.
A radio is an important piece of safety equipment on board and it is vital to understand the correct procedures. Unnecessary transmissions could block out a Mayday distress call.
Course topics include
- The basic of radio operation
- The correct frequencies (channels) to be used
- Distress, emergency and medical assistance procedures
- Making ship to shore telephone calls
- Digital Service Calling (DSC) using simulators
- Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
- Emergency Position including Radio Beacons (EPIRB)
- Search and Rescue (SART)
The course is taught by using radio simulators and will be examined by a short written test.
All new VHF sets are either fitted, or can be interfaced, with DSC allowing calls to specific vessels.
STCW – 95 Safety Courses
Before being signed on as crew on any MCA Coded vessel the STCW -95 certificates need to be completed as part of the new manning requirements.
These courses consist of the following:
- Elementary First Aid at Sea
- Marine Fire Fighting and Fire Prevention
- Personal Safety and Social Responsibility with Personal Survival Techniques
Requirements:
Competence will be evaluated on continuous assessment and on completion of each module of the course; students will be issued with a certificate of completion.
Durations: 7 days from Monday – Sunday.
For the more experienced the following are also offered:
- Ship’s Captain Medical
- Advanced Marine Fire Fighting
Notes: To gain a seaman’s passport you will be required to have an ENG 1 from an MCA Medical approved Doctor. We will help you make a booking you for a medical. This is not included in the course .
