SA Sailing Yachtmaster Offshore Courses

An SA Sailing ticket also entitles the holder to an ICC Certificate (International Certificate of Competence)

This course is a theory course and is designed as an add-on for students who have recently completed the Good Hope Sailing's Coastal Skipper course. It does not include revision of the Coastal syllabus.

The SAS Yachtmaster Offshore chartwork exam includes questions from the Day Skipper syllabus and the Coastal Skipper syllabus. The pass mark is 85%.

To do a SAS Yachtmaster Offshore exam you require:

A SAS or CASA Coastal Skipper's ticket
A VHF Marine Radio Operator's Licence
An eye test (details available on the SAS web site)
A certificate of attendance at an approved first-aid course
2,500 nautical miles as an active member of crew on a sailing vessel at sea
48 night hours on watch
Three overnight passages of at least 100 nautical miles as skipper
A photocopy of your logbook which records your experience

There are a few items that are essential for the course, which are obtainable from Charts International or Chart World:

The practice chart SA/N 3002
A parallel ruler, a Portland plotter, dividers, soft pencils (2B) and a soft eraser
A calculator with a square-root button
The SAS Yachtmaster Offshore Exercise and Navigation Tables
International Rules for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea (HO-15)
List of Lights, Fog Signals and Radio Services (HO-1)
Chart symbols and abbreviations (HO-6)

You get the SAS Yachtmaster Offshore Exercise and Navigation Tables from SAS.

For your oral exam you will need to demonstrate your GPS literacy using a handheld GPS of your choice.

The Yachtmaster Offshore exam has to be done through SAS. The cost is R1,000 for club members and R1,500 for non-club members. The exam generally consists of three components:

A short exam covering Colregs and IALA Buoyage (±½ hour)
A chartwork exam (±3 hours)
An oral exam (±2 hours)

The application must go through SAS for the Yachtmaster Offshore exam. The application form is available on the SAS web site, or we can email it to you.

Course fee:

R2800

To register for a course, please deposit R1,000.00 into Good Hope Sailing Academy. Current account no 1371410011. ABSA Bank, Adderley Street, code 312-109.

Please send an email, fax or sms to Good Hope Sailing Academy, including your name, the date of the course you wish to do, and the amount of the deposit.

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