The VHF radio course is a must for any skipper! This will be one of the few chances you'll ever get to press the red button without sending for the coastguard! This is a one-day course where you can twiddle knobs to your hearts content, learning how to send distress and urgency messages, make inter-ship calls, what to say, how to say and when to say. We offer you vhf marine radio training on the latest SIMRAD and ICOM radio sets, plus simulators for plenty of practice. This one day course leads to the achievement of the Short Range Certificate.

We invite all past, present and future Aigua students to attend a series of three bite-size workshops held once or twice a month, usually in the week prior to the five-day Yachtmaster theory course. In three two hour sessions, we run through what we fondly refer to as ‘the basics’: everything from buoyage and lights, vessel day shapes and fog sound signals, flags and etiquette. We introduce (or refresh depending on what stage you’re at) course to steer and estimate position tidal calculations, tidal heights and secondary port calculations and general seamanship and awareness.

We tie in the theory weekends with the practical sailing or motor courses (see the COMBO sections); however if you are not attending the practical courses, you will also study on two Friday evenings to ensure the advised amount of time is allocated to each section of the syllabus. On request we can provide the full five days course as consecutive days. At Aigua we can be as flexible and accommodation as you need us to be.

Step up to Master 200, a qualification that allows candidates holding RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore or Yachtmaster Ocean Certificates of Competence to be internationally recognised under the STCW-95 Convention as a Master of vessels up to 200GRT, with no restriction on LOA, or as an Officer of the Watch (OOW) on a vessel up to 500GRT.