The price of the Yacht Skipper's navigation practices includes student insurance, 21% VAT and the necessary resources for its optimal development.
CY navigation practices: 48-hour journey from Barcelona to the Balearic Islands
48-hour journey with a minimum of 8 hours of night navigation. They enable you to motor sail around the world in pleasure boats of up to 24 meters in length and pleasure vessels of less than 3000 GT.
They are carried out, every month of the year, on board one of our sailboats of more than 15 meters in length, departing from the Port Olímpic of Barcelona.
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How CY navigation practices are organized
The Barcelona – Balearic Islands – Barcelona crossing will last 48 hours, with a minimum of 8 hours of night navigation.
The estimated departure from Port Olímpic will be on a Friday around 7:00 p.m. aboard a cruising sailboat of more than 40 feet.
The meeting point is at the Marina Dock of the Port Olímpic of Barcelona.
The destination will be the island of Majorca or Menorca.
In summary, the navigation and rest periods will be a minimum of 18 hours without stopping on the way out, anchoring upon arrival, and if possible, we will go down to the Island to eat, but whoever prefers to eat on board can do so. For the return, another 18 hours of navigation, also non-stop, carrying out the planned agenda of the practices on both voyages.
The sailboats are equipped with all the regulatory security measures, both for personal security elements and for communications. They have a location system that allows us to know where they are at all times.
Depending on the weather forecast, it is advisable to bring a raincoat and warm clothes. In addition to comfortable clothing appropriate for a journey and appropriate footwear.
During the navigation you will be able to rest while others will guard on deck, you will take turns.
As for food, it is recommended that you cook little on the boat, try to bring prepared food or things that are easy to do. The school will put coffee pot, coffee, infusions and sugar on the sailboat.
Agenda of the CY navigation practices
The objective of the navigation practices is to prepare you for long-term navigation. In its development we will work on navigation aspects oriented mainly to the journey, safe night navigation.
- Use of safety and fire-fighting equipment.
- Review of issues related to safety equipment, its stowage and maintenance.
- Maintenance, reviews and precautions for use.
- Life raft, with a mock abandonment.
- Use of the life jacket and recognition of its elements.
- Use of the accident location radio beacon.
- portable VHF. Operation, battery charge check and spare battery.
- Automatic Identification System.
- Preparation for defeat.
- Checking the charts of the area to be navigated.
- Checking the status and stowage of the sextant. Verification of the validity of the nautical almanac.
- Update of the notices to the navigators. Defeat plot.
- Documentation to carry on board.
- Weather forecasts and contrast with the local situation.
- Checks before going out to sea.
- Review of the critical points of the boat.
- Review of fuel level and autonomy.
- Engine start, and exhaust and temperature control. Battery charge check.
- Release of ropes and exit maneuver.
- Effective navigation guard.
- Effective surveillance. Visibility. Navigation lights. Precautions during night watch.
- Heading control. Government and march depending on the state of the sea and wind.
- Reconnaissance of the coast. Use of the course.
- Control of the state of the sea. positions on the chart.
- Physical condition of the crew.
- Navigation.
- situation in the letter. Situation by delays and distances.
- Use of GNSS equipment.
- Calculation of the current.
- Esteem navigation. Determination of the estimated time of arrival (ETA).
- Radar use.
- Navigation without visibility.
- Landfall.
David Allepuz –
All perfect. Highly recommended.
Chris –
On the part of the school, the teacher is very good, always attentive to our doubts. On the part of our classmates, it was good for those of us who took the exam, and bad for the student who did not appear for this call. He simply came to look at the syllabus and ask unnecessary questions and slow down the classes a lot when he really wasn't going to take the exam.
Manuel Folguera –
Both the facilities, the environment and especially the professionalism and experience of the teachers have been excellent. Regarding the state of the boats in which the practices have been carried out, the qualification is acceptable.
Agustin –
Good but always room for improvement.
Todd –
Everything is ok, except that I consider that the practices are carried out in an excessively large group.
Carlos Tejera Costa –
All perfect.
Agustín González –
Everything can always be improved, but for me a 10.
Gonzalo –
The classrooms and their equipment are very good. The fleet of boats is good and well maintained. And the teaching quality is very good.
Pol Quintana –
The practices themselves have been subject to a procedure. I will learn, he who is diu will learn, I have no aprés res de nou but he will always add how many thousand million. The crossing itself has been stagnant, shame about the storm that forced people to be out in the open for hours. In my case I'm not worried but I thought that some of the other companies that had no idea about sailing, have sorted out the boat just as they are going to bid. In general be. The boat is missing some items, as is normal. I thought that in order to be able to do some practical things with my hands, I had to sail with a sailboat that could not be rolled up better, since a sail of this style, the one that is easy to sail, is not. I more than believed that it was 50 peus. In Raúl there is a professional.
Julio Dolz –
The practical teacher, excellent. Correct facilities and classes somewhat oversaturated with students. In the theoretical part, we got too lost in theoretical bases and lacked practice. The departure to Mallorca was very good, although the noise of the rudder bearing and its buckling, added to the presence of oil and diesel in the engine compartment, the malfunction of AIS and 12V chargers, made me doubt the boat safety.