RYA Cruising Instructor

The five day RYA Cruising Instructors course and assessment is aimed at qualified RYA Yachtmasters who wish to teach the RYA Competent Crew and RYA Day Skipper practical courses. Based on our extensive experience, the RYA Cruising Instructor course includes instructional techniques, the syllabus and how to construct an effective course, safety, as well as developing your personal skills.

The Cruising Instructor qualification is taught and assessed by BOSS cruising instructor trainers who draw on years of professional teaching experience to deliver a rewarding and challenging syllabus.

Applicants for the Cruising Instructor course must hold a RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competency and candidates intending to use the Cruising Instructor qualification in a commercial environment will be required to have this commercially endorsed.

The successful Cruising Instructor candidate will be expected to give convincing demonstrations of any part of the RYA Competent Crew and RYA Day Skipper syllabus and this includes: Knots, sail-handling, man overboard, mooring, pilotage by day and night, IRPCS, basic meteorology, navigation and skippering.

Cruising Instructor candidates who reach the required standard will be awarded the RYA Cruising Instructor endorsement which is valid for 5 years. After this time, cruising instructors must either re-take the Cruising Instructor course or pass the Yachtmaster Instructor’s Assessment. Candidates are advised to familiarise themselves with a current RYA G15 - the Cruising Logbook.