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Sunshine Sailing Australia’s Fastrack offers a reliable route to the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Coastal or Offshore/ Master of Yachts 200gt certificate, a benchmark for commercial skippers and essential for professional yachting. Whether you are an experienced sailor or a complete beginner, planning a career in sailing or achieving a personal goal, this is the course for you. We have designed 3 Fastrack options of different lengths, programs and costs to try and meet the many different needs of the future Yachtmaster of today. You will find that each Fastrack program has a special feature that brings an air of excitement and adventure! Something you will not forget! Combined within our Fastrack courses are either racing or bluewater cruising; come racing with us on either the Brisbane to Gladstone or Hamilton Island Yacht Races or join us on our Bluewater cruise to Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific!! Our sailing areas of Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Island and the Great Sandy Straits plus the Whitsunday Islands of the Great Barrier Reef is an excellent base for Yachtmaster training thanks to ideal conditions; perfect winds, warm tidal waters, busy shipping lanes and a wide variety of interesting sailing passages to exotic destinations makes this some of the best sailing grounds in the world! Your Fastrack course will be on board our spacious and luxurious Hanse 400e, in full MSQ 2B survey allowing us to go up to 200nm from the coast! Only five students are enrolled on each course and all courses are run by an experienced and fully qualified RYA approved instructor to ensure the highest level of instruction is available to each individual. 'Recently I had the pleasure of completing my RYA training with the Sunshine Sailing Australia (SSA). John Bankart, the proprietor of SSA... proved to be everything that I expected from a professional instructor whose skills were up to the high standards of RYA...I readily recommend Sunshine Sailing Australia to people seeking a highly qualified and professional sail training establishment.' Terry Silk. 'The Fastrack course was fantastic, not only did we learn so much, but most importantly it was absolute fun! The way the program was put together from start to finish was perfect. Thanks again for all your help along the way.' Chis Prewitt. The theory syllabus’s covers:
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RYA Certificates of Competence are some of the most useful and credible of all yachting qualifications. They thoroughly test the skipper’s ability, and can therefore appear daunting to potential candidates. But well-prepared skippers with the right experience needn’t worry. With practice and preparation, you should be able to relax sufficiently to let your skills shine through any exam nerves.
February 13 thru April 17 2012.
Includes Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race
$11'400 [50 days both practical and shorebased and approx 1500 nm]
Competent Crew | 5 days | February 13-17 |
Radio operators | 1 day | February 21 |
1st Aid | 1 day | February 22 |
Diesel | 1 day | February 23 |
Radar | 1 day | February 24 |
Sea Survival | 2 days | February 25-26 |
Day Skipper shorebased and practical | 9 days | March 3-11 |
Skills and Drills | 5 days | March 12-16 |
Coastal Skipper/ Yachtmaster shorebased and practical | 9 days | 26 March 17-25 |
Dinghy sailing | 2 days | |
Race training | 2 days | March 30-April 1 |
Keelboat sailing skills | 2 days | April 2-3 |
Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race | 3 days | April 6-8 |
Yachtmaster exam preparation | 5 days | April 10-15 |
RYA Yachtmaster offshore Exam | 2 days | April 16-17 |
May 21 thru August 31, 2012.
Includes Hamilton Island Race Week
$16'995 [78 days both practical and shorebase plus approx 2000 nm]
Competent Crew | 5 days | May 21-25 |
Keelboat sailing skills | 4 days | May 28-31 |
Day Skipper shorebased and practical | 9 day | June 2-10 |
RYA Powerboat Level 2 | 2 days | June 12-13 |
Safety and sea survival | 2 day | TBA |
Marine 1st Aid | 1 day | TBA |
Radar | 1 day | TBA |
Radio | 1 day | TBA |
Deisel | 1 day | TBA |
Around Fraser Island milebuilder | 6 days | June 17-21 |
Dinghy skills and Sail making | 3 days | July 2-4, July 9-11 |
Coastal Skipper/ Yachtmaster shorebased and practical | 9 days | July 14-22 |
Yacht maintenance | 3 days | July 23-25 |
Mooloolaba to Yeppoon mile building | 6 days | July 28 - August 2 |
Yeppoon to Hamilton Island mile building | 6 days | August 4-9 |
Skills and drill in the Whitsunday Islands | 5 day | August 11-15 |
Race training | 1 day | August 17 |
Hamilton Island Race Week | 8 days | August 18-25 |
Yachtmaster prep | 3 days | August 27-29 |
RYA Yachtmaster Exam | 2 days | August 30-31 |
October 1 thru December 19, 2012
Includes Lord Howe Island Bluewater cruise.
$13'900 [69 days both practical and shorebased and 2500 miles approx]
Competent Crew | 6 days | October 1-6 |
Sailing miles and experience | 6 days | October 8-13 |
Keelboat sailing and skills | 4 days | October 15-18 |
Day Skipper shorebased and practical | 9 day | October 20-28 |
Dinghy skills | 2 days | October 30-31 |
RYA Powerboat Level 2 | 2 days | November 1-2 |
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore shorebased and practical | 9 days | November 3-11 |
Lord Howe Island return | 12 days | November 19-30 |
Skills and Drills | 5 days | December 3-7 |
RYA Yachtmaster prep | 5 days | December 12-16 |
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Exam | 9 days | December 18-19 |
If these dates are not exactly meeting your requirements, please drop us a line so we can discuss your sailing experience and build a program that matches your personal needs.
John Bankart, Principal
At the helm of Sunshine Sailing Australia is John Bankart, winner of the 2003 and 2007 Melbourne-Osaka double handed yacht races. John is one of only two Royal Yachting Association Yachtmaster Ocean Power and Sail Examiners in Australia as well as a RYA Yachtmaster Offshore examiner.
John is an accomplished yachtsman, highly respected by his peers throughout the world. John has sailed over 130'000 sea miles worldwide, competed in 4 Sydney to Hobart yacht races, the infamous Fastnet, and was skipper of the yacht 'Maiden' racing around the world.
John continues to contest major ocean races, campaigning to enter the worlds Solo Ocean Yacht Races in 2014 and also working on his next Melbourne to Osaka in 2012. See www.oceanman.net
John has put together a team of world class skippers and instructors including Warren Boadle and James Morris, our Senior Instructor and our Corporate Events manager, both having sailed extensively within Australia and the world.
This is a sailing school run by offshore racing professionals, a school with a difference!
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Adult Dinghy
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