Price
£791
Nights
Eight
Age range
16-25
Start port
Portsmouth
End port
Portsmouth
DofE
Yes
RYA
Watch Leader
Voyage code
CF707
Bursary
Available
Voyage highlights
Are you keen to develop your leadership skills and learn more about your strengths and opportunities for growth?
This challenging voyage along the south coast is ideal for experienced sailors looking to perfect their skills on board one of our world-famous 72ft Challenger yachts.
For this ‘Voyage of Leadership’, you must have sailed previously sailed on one of TSYT’s Voyages of Empowerment or have a similar level of experience in an alternative outdoor learning setting.
Our Leadership Voyages offer an intense, challenging and immersive voyage experience and will involve learning to navigate, passage plan and lead a watch in addition to experiencing potentially challenging offshore and overnight sailing.
For this reason, Leadership Voyages may not be suitable for young people who have not completed the previous phases of our three-voyage journey or the RYA Competent Crew course.
This voyage provides a great opportunity to challenge yourself, while building the skills you need to achieve your life goals, and above all, learning what it means to be a leader in your community.
Sailing alongside other young people on a similar journey, you’ll develop the skills you need to work towards careers in the maritime sector and the blue economy.
As well as deepening your understanding of ocean science and sustainability, you can also learn from the knowledge and experience of your highly-qualified TSYT Crew mentors.
If you already hold a RYA Competent Crew certificate, you will be able to start working towards completing the RYA Watch Leader course, and get an introduction to navigation and passage planning skills at RYA Day Skipper theory level.
The beginning or end of your voyage may include stopovers along the South Coast such as Cowes, Yarmouth and Weymouth.
Depending on the weather conditions, we may sail to Alderney, Sark or Guernsey in the Channel Islands or you may voyage further along the south coast and explore the historic port of Falmouth.
Navigation and passage planning. Team leadership. Challenging sailing. Training and mentoring.
Throughout the week, you’ll cover essential safety drills before you take charge of the yacht to plan, prepare, execute and review each aspect of the voyage.
You will take turns to lead the team in all aspects of sailing the yacht, from deck work to provisioning, cooking, cleaning and day-to-day maintenance.
This voyage is a great opportunity to make tangible progress towards achieving your goals, with time to reflect on your achievements, opportunities to learn about yourself as a leader and team player, and to develop the optimism, aspiration and expertise you need to influence your community as well as your own future.
Each crew member will receive a personal assessment covering their leadership, teamwork and communication skills — a great addition to your CV.
The Skipper will determine the final route depending on weather and other variables.
All meals on board are included.
Our Leadership Voyages have clear learning objectives and outcomes and can qualify for an authorised absence from school/college. Please get in touch for more details on how we can support your application.
Following this voyage with us, you may be recommended by the Skipper to join our Watch Leader, Peer Mentor or Youth Ambassador training programmes to continue your journey with TSYT by supporting our work.
The RYA Watch Leader syllabus is an ongoing training syllabus written for sail training vessels, which you can work through over a series of voyages.
Once the syllabus has been completed, TSYT can award the certificate.
The syllabus covers:
- Watchkeeping
- Seamanship
- Navigation
- Safety at sea
All up to the standard required for taking charge of a watch at sea or in harbour. It is at an equivalent level to RYA Day Skipper, minus the boat handling.
RYA logbooks are available for purchase on board at a cost of £6 (Skippers are only able to take cash for this).
All voyages of four nights or more qualify for the residential section of the DofE Gold Award.
Please let our Reservations Team know before sailing if you want to use the voyage for this.
