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2023 Summary Calendar
- Theory course, RYA Day Skipper. 8 January – 5 February 2023. More info here.
- Theory course, RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore. 19 February – 16 April 2023. More info here.
- Theory course, Celestial Navigation. 26 February – 26 March 2023. More info here.
- Theory course, RYA Day Skipper. 4 March – 1 April 2023. More info here.
- Theory course, Marine VHF Radio. 22 April 2023. More info here.
- Sail-a-Day practical sail training. Helsinki. Multiple dates. More info here. Booking open.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 18 – 21 May 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 25 – 28 May 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 8 – 11 June 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 15 – 18 June 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 26 – 29 June 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 6 – 9 July 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 27 – 30 July 2023. More info here. Booking open.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 3 – 6 August 2023. More info here.
- Practical sailing course, Helsinki. 17 – 20 August 2023. More info here. Booking open.
- Practical sail training cruise. Mediterranean, Croatia. 7–14 October 2023. More info here. Ask for availability.
Theory courses
Theory course. RYA Day Skipper. 8 January – 5 February 2023.
RYA Day Skipper theory provides background knowledge in navigation, safety, and seamanship for Inshore Skipper practical course students. Additionally, the course addresses the navigational and safety challenges of the Finnish waters.
Duration: 40 hours and two assessments.
Course dates:
Day 1. Sunday, 8 January 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 2. Sunday, 15 January 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 3. Sunday, 22 January 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 4. Sunday, 29 January 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 5. Sunday, 5 February 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Course delivery is flexible. If a participant misses a classroom session, we can arrange additional classroom or online meetings to fill in the gaps. A growing number of online course services make distance learning more effective. We have been developing these during the pandemic. The aim is to create a theory course that benefits from interactive physical classroom learning and online learning functionalities for communication, sharing resources, and giving assignments. Physical and online classrooms complement each other.
Price: 390 €. It includes all paper and online materials except personal plotting tools.
Materials: Two RYA practice charts, RYA Exercises and course information booklet, RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Notes book, RYA Training Almanac, online material (lesson sets, exercise workings, other resources), assessment papers, and certificate of satisfactory completion. The students are assumed to bring their chartwork tools, including pencil, rubber, dividers, plotter, and notebook.
Location: Lauttasaari Classroom
Other info. Name of the RYA Recognised Training Centre: Helsinki Yachting. Max number of students usually is eight. Language: Exams and courses are in English. Classroom address: Heikkiläntie 7, 00210 Helsinki.
Theory course. RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore. 19 February - 16 April 2023.
RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore theory provides background knowledge in navigation, safety, and seamanship for coastal skipper practical course students.
The course also provides a theoretical basis for those who plan to take the practical examination required to get the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence.
Duration: 40 hours and three assessments.
Course dates:
Day 1: Sunday, 19 February 2023 , 9:00-17:30
Day 2: Sunday, 5 March 2023, 09:00-17:30.
Day 3, Sunday, 19 March 2023, 09:00-17:30.
Day 4. Sunday, 2 April 2023, 09:00-17:30.
Evening 1: Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 17:00-21:00.
Day 5: Sunday, 16 April 2023, 09:00-17:30.
Course delivery is flexible. If a participant misses a classroom session, we can arrange additional classroom or online meetings to fill in the gaps. A growing number of online course services make distance learning more effective. We have been developing these during the pandemic. The aim is to create a theory course that benefits from interactive physical classroom learning and online learning functionalities for communication, sharing resources, and giving assignments. Physical and online classrooms complement each other.
Price: 410 €; includes all paper and online materials except personal plotting tools.
Materials: Two RYA practice charts, RYA Exercises and course information booklet, RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased Notes book, RYA Training Almanac, RYA Weather booklet, online material (lesson sets, exercise workings, other resources), assessment papers, and certificate of satisfactory completion. The students are assumed to bring their chartwork tools, including pencil, rubber, dividers, plotter, and notebook.
Location: Lauttasaari Classroom
Other info. Name of the RYA Recognised Training Centre: Helsinki Yachting. Max number of students usually is eight. Language: Exams and courses are in English. Classroom address: Heikkiläntie 7, 00210 Helsinki.
Theory course. Celestial Navigation. 26 February – 26 March 2023
Celestial Navigation is experiencing a renaissance among cruising sailors, navigation enthusiasts, and the yachting industry. Celestial Navigation has many virtues: exciting topic as such (tradition, method, sky, space), no electricity needed, independent source of a position fix, and provides routines during long passages.
The goals of the course are:
- to provide minimal but covering background theory
- to keep the work process as simple as possible
- to select methods practiced by international mainstream
Duration: 24 hours
Course dates:
Day 1. Sunday, 26 February 2023. 09:00-17:30.
Day 2. Sunday, 12 March 2023. 09:00-17:30
Day 3. Sunday, 26 March 2023. 09:00-17:30
Course topics include the following: Introduction to the course, celestial navigation essentials, position fixing and plotting sheet, sextant, concepts related to time, sun sight, sun meridian passage, sun-run-sun, planet sight, star sight, selected stars fix, latitude by Polaris, moon sight, checking for deviation.
Materials include everything needed to work out celestial position fix: lesson slides, nautical almanac, sight reduction tables, working sheets, plotting sheets.
In addition to physical classroom sessions, the celestial navigation course uses online services to make distance learning more effective. The aim is to create a celestial navigation course that benefits from interactive physical classroom learning and online learning functionalities for communication, sharing resources, and giving assignments. Physical and online classrooms complement each other.
Price: 250 €. It includes all materials, lessons, exercises, and course completion certificate. After the course, all core materials remain for the student’s later use at sea.
Location: Lauttasaari Classroom.
Theory course. RYA Day Skipper. 4 March – 1 April 2023.
RYA Day Skipper theory provides background knowledge in navigation, safety, and seamanship for Inshore Skipper practical course students. Additionally, the course addresses the navigational and safety challenges of the Finnish waters.
Duration: 40 hours and two assessments.
Course dates:
Day 1. Saturday, 4 March 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 2. Saturday, 11 March 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 3. Saturday, 18 March 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 4. Saturday, 25 March 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Day 5. Saturday, 1 April 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Course delivery is flexible. If a participant misses a classroom session, we can arrange additional classroom or online meetings to fill in the gaps. A growing number of online course services make distance learning more effective. We have been developing these during the pandemic. The aim is to create a theory course that benefits from interactive physical classroom learning and online learning functionalities for communication, sharing resources, and giving assignments. Physical and online classrooms complement each other.
Price: 390 €. It includes all paper and online materials except personal plotting tools.
Materials: Two RYA practice charts, RYA Exercises and course information booklet, RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Notes book, RYA Training Almanac, online material (lesson sets, exercise workings, other resources), assessment papers, and certificate of satisfactory completion. The students are assumed to bring their chartwork tools, including pencil, rubber, dividers, plotter, and notebook.
Location: Lauttasaari Classroom
Other info. Name of the RYA Recognised Training Centre: Helsinki Yachting. Max number of students usually is eight. Language: Exams and courses are in English. Classroom address: Heikkiläntie 7, 00210 Helsinki.
Theory course. Marine VHF Radio. 22 April 2023
Principles of VHF Radio system, operating VHF Radio, voice and DSC calls, preparing to take the SRC exam in Finland.
Course date: Saturday, 22 April 2023, 09:00 – 17:00.
Price: 115 € (does not include Traficom exam and certification fees)
Location: Lauttasaari/Helsinki classroom.
Practical courses
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 18 – 21 May 2023
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 19 May 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 21 May 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 25 – 28 May 2023
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 26 May 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 28 May 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 8 - 11 June 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 9 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 10 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 11 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 15 - 18 June 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 16 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 17 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 26 - 29 June 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Monday, 26 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 15:30-21:30
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 6 - 9 July 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Friday, 7 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Sunday, 9 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 27 - 30 July 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Friday, 28 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Saturday, 29 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Sunday, 30 July 2023, 09:00-17:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 3 - 6 August 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 3 August 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 4 August 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 5 August 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sailing course. Helsinki. 17 - 20 August 2023.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety guest marinas and smaller harbors where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yachtclub in Lauttasaari.
Course dates:
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 15:30-21:30
Friday, 18 August 2023, 15:30-21:30
Saturday, 19 August 2023, 09:00-19:00
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 09:00-19:00
Price: Sailing Crew €470; Inshore Skipper €470; Coastal Skipper €490
Course notes included. Additional night navigation exercises are included in the Coastal Skipper course.
Practical sail training cruise. Mediterranean, Croatia. 7–14 October 2023
Sailing area: Adriatic coast with turquoise sea, beautiful islands, and picturesque old port towns.
Dates: Saturday, 7 October at 17:00 – Saturday, 14 October at 09:00.
Airport: Split.
Base harbour: Seget Donji, close to Trogir.
The yacht is Bavaria 51 Cruiser. Accommodations are in twin-berth cabins.
The trip can be an active mile-building sailing cruise or a practical sailing course.
Price: 850 €. No advance payments.
For more information, ask: mikko@helsinkiyachting.fi
Sail-a-Day training events 2023
A Sail-a-Day event allows participants to sail and practice crew tasks, navigation, and skippering a cruising yacht. The day allows the participants to build experience and sail as part of an international team.
Sail-a-Day suits all skill levels: from beginner to coastal skipper level.
Each Sail-a-Day event is customised depending on participants’ skill levels and training expectations.
Sailing area: Helsinki coastal waters provide an exciting and diverse sail training area to learn crew member skills, navigation, and skippering. Helsinki offers a wide variety of guest marinas and smaller harbours where we can stop for lunch. Daily sail training trips start from our home base at HSK Yacht Club in Lauttasaari.
Sail-a-Day dates:
- Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 10:00-18:00. Places available.
- Thursday, 13 August 2023, 10:00-18:00. Places available.
- Friday, 14 August 2023, 10:00-18:00. Places available.
- Friday, 21 August 2023, 10:00-18:00. Places available.
Sail-a-Day price: 130 €

