{"id":6827,"date":"2024-10-28T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:57:26","slug":"certificates-of-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/certificates-of-competence\/","title":{"rendered":"Certificates of Competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RYA Certificates of Competence are highly regarded worldwide as the ultimate goal for aspiring skippers, showcasing their experience and proficiency.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight text-fcs-dark-900\">Prove your experience and competence as a skipper<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">RYA Certificates of Competence are viewed by many aspiring skippers as the ultimate aim. They are well respected worldwide qualifications that prove your experience and competence as a skipper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">Responsibility for issuing Certificates of Competence is given to the RYA by the British Government through the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">Certificates of Competence exist at Yachtmaster Coastal,\u00a0and\u00a0<a>Yachtmaster Ocean<\/a>\u00a0level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ProveYourExperience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ProveYourExperience.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ProveYourExperience-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight text-fcs-dark-900\">How \u200bTo Get A Certificate of Competence<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">To get a Certificate of Competence for Yachtmaster Coastal or Offshore you must pass an on board practical exam that can last from 6 to 12 hours. You do not need to take a formal course before taking the exam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">If you have sufficient sea time and experience you can go straight for it. However, many people do take a preparation course prior to the exam. A prep course helps get you up to speed by covering everything the examiner is likely to ask you whilst ironing out any bad habits you may have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">When you take a prep course with us we book the examiner for you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-3 text-base text-fcs-dark-primary text-justify text-fcs-formatted\">Getting a Certificate of Competence for Yachtmaster Ocean involves an oral exam. We can help with booking an examiner for this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HowToGet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HowToGet.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HowToGet-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prove your experience and competence as a skipper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[591,418,157,420,419],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing-in-media","tag-certificate-of-competence","tag-rya-yachtmaster","tag-yachtmaster","tag-yachtmaster-coastal","tag-yachtmaster-offshore"],"views":1359,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}