Nautilus Yacht charter

For boat charter you need to have previous skipper experience to Day Skipper standard, attained by cruising in the UK or on a past yacht charter or flotilla sailing holiday. You should be competent at dealing with a yacht in close quarters, anchoring and mooring in varying circumstances, and be able to make use of your navigation and pilotage abilities to plan on a daily basis passageway and understand your situation whenever you want. You should be assisted by a minumum of one skilled staff.

The port authorities in Croatia, Mallorca, Tenerife and Malta require an internationally recognised certificate of competence the skipper, eg RYA International Certificate of Competence (ICC) or RYA Day Skipper Practical.

The RYA ICC are more and more needed by overseas port authorities but if you have got skipper knowledge it is effortlessly obtained in a day from RYA sailing schools in britain such Hamilton Sailing or Brixham water School

Include a skipper to any of your bareboat yachts if you don’t possess experience to charter bareboat or if you would really like a helping hand with a bigger boat or a guide to a new cruising area. The skipper will be a competent local sailor and perfectly effective at cruising the yacht. He will encourage you to get involved as team, although he is not an instructor. You'll have to allocate a cabin for the skipper's usage and offer him with refreshments.