Practical Skipper: Essential notes and checklists for day and coastal skippers

When you learn how to skipper a yacht the practical courses cover a whole range of activities, from passage planning to pilotage and berthing. The way you learn about these elements on a course is usually like this:

– the briefing, where the instructor prepares you for the exercise. He should explain what we're trying to achieve, how it's going to work, and what the skipper and crew need to do
– the practical activity – you all have a go
– the debriefing afterwards, where you discuss what happ...