At Allabroad we work as a team to make sure you achieve your goal. if you put in the effort throughout your course we will make sure you get through your exam.

At our discretion we offer free extra weeks for those who have worked hard but need extra tuition to get to the required level.

Extended professional courses to Day Skipper, Coastal Skipper, Yachtmaster Coastal, Yachtmaster Offshore, Yachtmaster Ocean or Cruising Instructor. Now includes STCW 95 Elementary First Aid, STCW 95 Sea Survival and STCW 95 PSSR.

Book your fastrack course to Yachtmaster Offshore and take the Cruising Instructor option.
On successful completion you could be given the opportunity to join the Allabroad apprenticeship option.
Work with Allabroad for up to 40 weeks recouping your fees and more as well as gaining experience and miles for your full instructors certificate.
Allabroad will then arrange for you to complete your RYA full Yachtmaster instructor course and exam.

About us.

ASA is very much a family run training centre where every student is important and an individual.
We take great pains to make students welcome and happy during their course.
You can contact ex-fastrack students on our forum or contact us.  Our sole aim is to help you achieve your goals and if you need individual help you will get it.
 

100% pass rate for all RYA Yachtmaster Instructors trained at ASA.

Everyone who has been trained by Allabroad and moved on to take their full Yachtmasters Instructors certificate has passed.(An independent RYA exam with a normal pass rate around 50%) 
A Yachtmasters certificate is like getting a degree. Where you get the degree matters just as much as the degree itself.
That is why we aim for very high standards at Allabroad and over the years have attained a good reputation for helping students gain not just a Yachtmaster certificate but a high quality Yachtmasters certificate.
This is important when applying for jobs in the sailing industry and Allabroad students have a good name worldwide.
There are schools run by ex Allabroad students in Australia, Portugal, Spain, U.K. Norway and charter and delivery companies run by ex students in Spain, Greece and Turkey.

14 weeks to Yachtmaster sail £ 7495.00. fully inclusive.

18 weeks to Yachtmaster power and sail £ 12500.00 including power and sailing miles and passages.

There are job opportunities with us and are available from our connections with employers of Skippers and crew.
ELCAS approved to provide resettlement courses to the M.o.D.  
Opportunities for free Ocean passages to the Caribbean for ASA fastrackers taking the ocean theory option.

Commitment.

At ASA we are committed to you and your course and there are no hidden extras all you pay for are your own drinks and your personal laundry.
If you are interested in taking the fastrack course contact us and receive our free CD with video and brochure.

The pitfalls of fastrack.

There are a lot of schools now providing this course.  In the past some have been irresponsible sending students off on their own before they are ready.  Students need to gain experience gradually in protected waters in good conditions.  Some schools send students self skippering because they have completed x number of weeks not because they are ready.   Other schools teach students on only one yacht which means they are really Yachtmasters of a particular yacht only. Others split the course between various schools because they lack the facilities to complete the whole course themselves. This leads to lack of continuity and sometimes a lesser quality course.

In our view fastrack should be done on various yachts all of which handle differently and in various waters. Students should get at least three weeks genuine self skippering but be introduced to it by being set free in familiar waters first and then extending their sailing area to unknown waters.
They should have continuity of course with regular feedback on their progress.
Yachts should be large enough to facilitate living aboard with smaller yachts available for exams etc. The whole course should be carried out in tidal waters which gives students the experience and challenges that they need to become good Yachtmasters. The course is offered by some schools ill-equipped to provide it having no on shore facilities for the required theory courses so students are taught theory in the confined area of a yacht with everyone trying to get their time at the chart or saloon table. This is not acceptable to the RYA who require schools teaching theory courses to have available classroom facilities and to use them for those theory courses.

RYA 2006 Conference.

The pitfalls of fastrack  have been pointed out by schools not running fastrack courses at every RYA conference that I have been to since becoming an instructor.
To counter this James Stevens from the RYA stated at the 2006 RYA conference that Fastrack Yachtmasters had as good a record as slow track Yachtmasters and there was little or no difference in accidents and mishaps.

At the same RYA conference 2006 it was recommended by James Stevens that  ocean or over long mile building passages were not suitable for fastrack courses and that passages should be shorter. In our view short interesting passages visiting lots of ports are far more interesting and taxing than sitting on a yacht for several days or weeks at a time.

At ASA we have set out to do all these things by investing in different types of yacht two of which are larger more comfortable yachts suitable for living aboard. We visit ports in Spain, Morocco and the Algarve and limit our trips to maximum 150 miles (all tidal) so boat handling is done on a regular basis and students do not get bored. We have a maximum 5 students to a boat policy even on the longer mile building trips which lets each student have more time as skipper and get more boat handling. Two large on site classrooms, a fastrack lounge with TV, Video, internet access and a free phone for calls to Europe and some other countries proves our commitment to our fastrack students.

Free Motor Course.

In addition, we think every yachtsman should know about motor yachts and their problems so have included absolutely free a two day RYA Helmsman's course on our Jeanneau motor cruiser.

At ASA we provide a first class fastrack course which the competition cannot match. Why are we different?  In a nutshell, Allabroad is a family business and we care about you, about getting you through and about your future after you complete the course.
We are in a warm and tidal area.
We have all the required facilities and more.
Allabroad is the only school that has the facilities to provide STCW 95 training in Gibraltar and provides all the training for Gibraltar Port Workers.

We are well known in the industry for the quality of our Yachtmasters and Instructors with many of our ex students running schools of their own, working here at Allabroad and in other schools in Gibraltar. There is one school in Western Australia where the principal and two of his instructors were trained at Allabroad.
Other schools in the Med. have requested us to inform them of any good available instructors trained by us. If you join any school in Gibraltar you may well be being trained by one of our ex students.
You can review your options after two weeks and you can even take the two week opt out option which shows our confidence that you will be satisfied with your course. Add to all this a free motor course and STCW 95 training at no extra charge and you have an excellent all round package.
We are the only fastrack school that dares to have an open forum so you can have a chat with our ex students.