TASMAN ADVENTURES SAIL TRAINING
Build your sailing skills - wherever you're starting from.
Follow our five-level pathway from crew to ocean skipper, or build practical skills with our specialist courses in sea survival, marine radio and diesel engines.
SAIL TRAINING COURSES
LEVEL 1 - DECKHAND
LEVEL 3 - INSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 2 - WATCHLEADER
Stop being a passenger. Become part of the crew.
Learn the practical skills to live aboard, handle sails and lines, and contribute confidently as an active member of the crew.
LEVEL 2 - WATCHLEADER
LEVEL 3 - INSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 2 - WATCHLEADER
Take the watch. Take responsibility.
Develop the skills to manage a watch, steer and sail the yacht, maintain situational awareness and know when to call the skipper.
LEVEL 3 - INSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 3 - INSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 4 - OFFSHORE SKIPPER
Take command. Plan the passage.
Learn to plan and skipper daytime coastal passages, taking responsibility for the safety of the yacht and crew.
LEVEL 4 - OFFSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 4 - OFFSHORE SKIPPER
LEVEL 4 - OFFSHORE SKIPPER
Go further. Stay out longer.
Develop the skills to plan and skipper multi-day coastal and offshore passages, including overnight sailing, watchkeeping and managing the yacht and crew through a continuous passage.
Level 5 - OCEAN SKIPPER
LEVEL 4 - OFFSHORE SKIPPER
Level 5 - OCEAN SKIPPER
Plan and manage an ocean voyage.
Develop the advanced passage planning, navigation, weather and seamanship skills needed to prepare for and undertake extended ocean passages.
SPECIALIST Courses
SAFETY AND SEA SURVIVAL
MARINE DIESEL ESSENTIALS
SAFETY AND SEA SURVIVAL
Practical preparation for emergencies at sea, including survival equipment, emergency procedures and realistic scenarios.
MARINE RADIO
MARINE DIESEL ESSENTIALS
SAFETY AND SEA SURVIVAL
Practical training in VHF and HF/SSB radio, including routine communications, distress procedures and DSC.
MARINE DIESEL ESSENTIALS
MARINE DIESEL ESSENTIALS
MARINE DIESEL ESSENTIALS
Understand your engine, look after it and know what to do when it stops.