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Oatsandbeans View Drop Down
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    Posted: 14 Jan 07 at 4:43pm

Being a good dinghy sailor will only help you in some of the aspects of skipperring a yacht. OK sailing it around will come quite easily, but that is actually the easy bit of it what you (probably),  won't have much idea of is ;

Maneauvering under engine, with all the complications that have been pointed out,

Navigation,

Electronics, VHF radar 

Emergency procedures

Engine maintenance

As a dinghy sailor you may think that the sailing bit is the important bit - well unfortunately it isn't - the other bits are actually more important.  You can be a piss poor sailor but if you  know the rest you can still be a good and safe cruiser.

I know about this because I have just spent the last 3 years going through the process of aquiring the other skills after 30 years of competitive dinghy sailing.  
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Stefan Lloyd View Drop Down
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Originally posted by tgruitt

Never parked a yacht on our club pontoon then have you!! lol

I don't know. Where's your club?
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Blobby View Drop Down
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Originally posted by limey

Can anyone enlighten me whether (1) an experienced dinghy sailor/racer has all the necessary skills without formal training to charter a yacht. And (2) if its possible to do so without a Yacht Masters or similar certificate

1) No.

2) You can charter yachts in the Whitsundays (Queensland, Aus) with no sailing experience whatsoever.
One step forwards, 2 steps back...
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Far more to sailing a larger boat than a dinghy. True that dingy experience will give you the "how to beat, reach, run, etc.", but then what happens when the wind get's up and you need to reef, when you come to anchor, when you reverse and the stern kicks, etc., etc.

Dinghy's are great fun, but if you are skipper of a larger boat then you have responsibilities for the safety of your crew and everybody on board.

This does not mean it is difficult, just there is quite a lot of knowledge you would need that being able to sail a dinghy would not give you.

That said I have done it a few times without any RYA certificates. In fact the first time the guy in charge of the boats forged my signature on my "self declaration of competence" (required by the then Yugoslavian government - I had not realised I was meant to sign the thing as I did not understand a word of the form). However, in practice I had been sailing cruisers and larger boats since age 9 so had experience.

Ian
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