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    • Day Skipper theory course for blind and partially sighted students dates announced

    30/06/11

    The course will be run over four weekends commencing 5/6th Nov, 12/13th Nov, 19/20th Nov, and 3/4th Dec.

    Autumn Day Skipper theory course

    Ever wanted to progress your sailing and understand more about navigation and skippering your own yacht? or chartering?

    Ian Jewry will be running the first ever adapted and accessible Day Skipper theory course at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club in the Autuman, and people are encouraged to register their interst in joining this course as soon as possible.

    The course that will equip delegates with the understanding and knowledge to hopefully RYA certification pass level will be restricted to 4 students and will run over three or four weekends. Dates are yet to be confirmed, but if you are interested in registering, please complete the form below: - an asterix(*) denotes a required field.


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    If you click the "Submit enquiry" button, your enquiry will be sent to our Commodore at visa-gb.org.uk

    Accessible Day Skipper theory course preliminary exploration

    12/03/11 Ian Jewry and Frank Hatful, along with Ken Knowles and Colin Fowler held a preliminary Day Skipper course exploration meeting at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club over the weekend of 12/13th March to run a workshop to develop and refine the approach to Navigation for The blind and visually impaired. The weekend concentrated on teaching techniques for the course and testing adaptations and tools for making navigation and chart work as accessible and manageable independently by blind and visually impaired students doing the Day Skipper syllabus.

    By using Frank’s yacht for part of the weekend, a ‘hands on’ of equipment normally described by slides on the syllabus meant that a greater understanding of particular items and their use could be conveyed to the student. Models of boats were used for explaining the ‘rules of the road’ and an accessible method of demonstrating tidal curve was devised for production later.

    The weekend was an overwhelming success and many actions were set for exploring further accessibility ideas.

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