>Marine Hospitality Core Skills
Aim: Gain the essential Maritime qualifications required to work on commercial motor and sailing vessels over 16m.
Overview: This course will provide hospitality professionals or chefs with the correct courses which large yachts will require of all staff, including the MCA STCW 95 basic training.
Pre-requisite Qualified hospitality professional /chef
Duration: 12 days
Experience: No previous yachting experience is necessary. However a love for the ocean, travel and hard work ethic is a must.
Qualifications: RYA Start Yachting, RYA Power Boat Level II, SRC radio, STCW 95, Marine Hospitality Core Skills.
Benefits: Learn the basics about vessels / how to make lines off etc in a fun safe environment
Update your knowledge of basic first aid
Advanced survival techniques at sea
Fire fighting and fire safety
Learn about basic rib/tender driving and ship to shore communications skills
On the water: Gain practical experience in tender driving, theory and practical work.
Experience working on a super yachts galley in 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
RYA Start Yachting
This course provides a short introduction to sail cruising for novices. By the end of the course participants will have experienced steering a yacht, sail handling, rope work and be aware of safety on board. Holders of Start Yachting Certificate can obtain a Competent Crew certificate by completing a further three days.
- The yacht – basic knowledge of sea terms, parts of a boat, her rigging and sails.
- Rope work – ability to tie – a figure of eight, round turn and two half hitches, bowline.
- Underway – has experienced sailing a yacht on all points of sail, can steer a yacht under sail or power.
- Rules of the road – can keep an efficient look out at sea.
- Meteorology – knows where to obtain a weather forecast.
- Man overboard recovery – understands the action to be taken to recover a man overboard.
- Clothing and equipment – understands and complies with the rules for the wearing of safety harnesses, lifejackets etc.
- Emergency equipment and precautions.
On Land:
Marine Hospitality Core skills
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
- 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 .
