Instructor Cruiser Sailing
Cruising Instructor
Eddie English has been sailing cruisers for over 40 years and has been training instructors for over 30 years- indeed Eddie is Ireland's leading instructor trainer - running courses to train dinghy , powerboat and cruiser instructors.
The five day Cruising Instructors course and assessment is aimed at qualified Yachtmasters who wish to teach the Competent Crew and 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 SailCork 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.
Next Course is scheduled for November 2009
Eddie English Blog
Underwater cable Aghada to Cuskinny
One Thursday evening at the very start of February a group of seafarers decended on my local, “The Roaring Donkey”, in Cobh and lashed into copious quantities of gin and tonic. As the conversations began to flow it transpired that they were the crew of the Norwegian vessel, “Elektron”, docked at Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke. Not just any ordinary ship but a specialist vessel for cable laying – she was here to lay the cable from Aghada Power Station to Cuskinny on the Great Island in Cork Harbour.
