The Hamble School of Yachting fast track Professional Sail Training (PST) course is designed to progress an inexperienced sailor to a fully qualified professional standard.
Hamble School of Yachting follows the globally recognised RYA certification programme that takes students to commercially endorsed RYA Yachtmaster Offshore level - the gold standard in sailing qualifications.
The PST course is also a great option for anyone looking for a life-changing experience; either following retirement, during a gap year, sabbatical or taking leisure sailing to the next level.
SETTING QUALITY FOUNDATIONS
Whether you’re looking to embark on a career in the sailing industry, taking a break from work or looking for a new challenge of long-distance sailing in retirement, it is important to set solid foundations for your journey ahead.
Hamble School of Yachting has a reputation in the industry for the high quality of sailors that come from its courses which provides a valuable head-start when seeking employment.
HIGH CALIBRE INSTRUCTORS
Hamble School of Yachting employs only the best teaching staff. All instructors are hand-picked for their ability to communicate, their knowledge and sense of humour! Instructors receive ongoing professional development from the Hamble School of Yachting via a programme delivered by the Chief Instructor. Very few schools adopt this policy.
STRICT INTAKE LIMIT
Hamble School of Yachting can offer a choice of different yachts on which to sail and a dedicated teaching block equipped with the latest computer and audio visual technology.
Numbers of students on the PST course are strictly limited to an absolute maximum of ten on each intake. This allows incredibly high quality supervision and monitoring of training and enables students to get much more out of that vital contact time with each instructor.
THE VERY BEST PROGRAMME
The programme is purposefully organised in such a way that each week has a clear and dedicated set of goals.
Students are debriefed after each task, and at the end of each week, by the instructor and
Chief Instructor. This enables the school to identify student strengths and weaknesses at a very early stage and ensure a personal action plan is put into place to build up skills accordingly.
AN ALL-ROUND EDUCATION
Hamble School of Yachting does not try to enrol its students on a ticket collecting exercise for a bewildering array of different courses. This course is focused and carefully designed to turn out high quality sailors with a good degree of all-round seamanship skills.
The school believes there is no substitute for hands on experience and students spend 72 days of the total 98 days tuition at sea learning the skills of their trade. The weeks spent on practical sailing are carefully divided between skipper development and mileage building to destinations in the English Channel, and “drills and skills” weeks closer to home.
THE HAMBLE TOUCHES
Hamble School of Yachting is so committed to delivering the best possible experience that it invites prospective PST students to join the team for a weekend of sailing, free of charge. This gives the opportunity for students to meet school’s friendly faces, see how the school operates and chat to the brilliant instructors about their ambitions. It also allows the team to ensure the course is right for the student. For those with more experience it might be suitable to start at module two or three and this will be assessed over the weekend.
| Course | Day Skipper module 1 |
Coastal Skipper module 2 |
Yachtmaster module 3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Finish | Start | Finish | Start | Finish | |
| 93 | 02/06/24 | 07/07/24 | 15/07/24 | 18/08/24 | 25/08/24 | 27/09/24 |
| 94 | 06/10/24 | 10/11/24 | 18/11/24 | 22/12/24 | 05/01/25 | 07/02/25 |
| 95 | 09/02/25 | 16/03/25 | 24/03/24 | 27/04/25 | 04/05/25 | 06/06/25 |
| 96 | 13/04/25 | 18/05/25 | 26/05/25 | 29/06/25 | 06/07/25 | 08/08/25 |
| 97 | 08/06/25 | 13/07/25 | 21/07/25 | 24/08/25 | 31/08/25 | 03/10/25 |
| 98 | 05/10/25 | 09/11/25 | 17/11/25 | 21/12/25 | 04/01/26 | 06/02/26 |
For more details about the course and the options open to you, please download a PDF copy of our PST brochure. If you have problems downloading the brochure or would prefer a hard copy please feel free to call us.
If you would like any help at all or would like to discuss the possibilities further, please call Chris Rushton or any of the friendly team here at Hamble School of Yachting with any questions you might have. We would welcome you to the school at anytime to give you a chance to look around and enable us to discuss your requirements further. We all look forward to meeting you.
