Last updated: 17 August 2023
Fast Track to Yachtmaster Offshore Sail
If you have the desire to change your lifestyle and become a Yachtmaster then you are on the right page. This course is perfect if you want to Fast Track your way to a new career in the maritime industry or indeed be the very best you can be as a professional leisure sailor and in both cases realise your ambition to take to the water and explore the world.
- Beneficial training ratios
- Train on modern Jeanneau 389 yachts
- Study & relax in our 24 hour facility
- Be taught by mostly Yachtmaster Instructors
- Extra exam opportunity if required
- Over 20 years of Fast Track success
- Train with the best to be the best
With Allabroad you will succeed
By choosing Allabroad Sailing Academy for your Professional Fast Track course you are buying into our 20 years of Fast Track training success. You will benefit from sailing our modern fleet of five matched Jeanneau 389 sailing yachts. Plus you will have the use of the shorebased training and relaxation facilities by personal keycode access 24 hours a day whilst in our training base. Our Instructional team are also very experienced and dedicated to seeing you achieve your goals; many of our instructors have been with us for many years and do so because they share our passion for standards with a measure of good fun too. This means you will be trained by predominantly senior instructors at Yachtmaster Instructor level, this means you will succeed.
RYA and MCA Recognition
Joining a training center that has duel RYA and MCA status means that you benefit from the higher quality standards that are expected and regularly audited by the MCA. These include full time accessible training rooms that meet training standards for design, size and technology. You will not be training in an ad hoc hired room or someones apartment or house with Allabroad, you will be in our dedicated facility in the heart of the marina for which you have 24 hour key code access for extra study or relaxation.
Adding the STCW Basic Safety Training course to ensure your Yachtmaster Offshore has a wider acceptance outside of British waters, on a wider range of flagged vessels and gives you a wider variety of employment opportunities including Superyachts for example. Without the STCW endorsment some maritime authorities outside of British waters may not accept your certification for commercial use.



Training Guarantee
We’ve been running Fast Track sailing courses for over 20 years now and this is the expertise that you are buying into. We take our responsibility to you personally and do adapt the training to the group and also your individual changing training needs. Since sometimes exam nerves can get the better of even the strongest of candidates, we offer another exam opportunity to all full event students who have been committed to the course, undertaken the study asked of them, & turned up for class on time.
Time and money investment takes consideration
We do appreciate that committing to this course is an investment in your time, which can never be replaced, however it’s also a big investment in funds too. We’ve always made our course competitive as a package and fully inclusive of all meals & accommodation throughout every day of the course, along with all the training & experience you need to take the final Yachtmaster Offshore exam. We are open and upfront that you will need to bring spending money for your personal entertainment ashore, your laundry, active outdoor clothing & boat shoes. There's also a few digital books & learning aids that are fabulous resources to download and will give you access to beneficial learning resources to help you along the way to your goals. You can pay the exam fees to RYA direct to generate your entry application forms & we recommend that everyone joining this course takes an ENG1 or other country equivalent to ensure you pass the medical requirements to work at sea prior to joining this course, or this can be arranged locally when you join us.

Fast Track Course Schedule:
1800 start on the first Sunday. A full schedule is given at the end of the second week once you have settled into the Academy, this follows our trusted framework of activities mixing between shore-based events, distance sailing and honing fine skills on skills and drills development weeks. You will also learn how to look after a yacht and thus be a true yachtmaster by getting involved in general maintenance, winch servicing, gel coat care & repair, understanding basic electrical fault finding, servicing heads & learning how to splice too. This is a full time course; it is not a walk in the park but it is fun too. You will look back on this adventure and achievement as one of the best things you’ve done, seriously we have had many clients testify to this statement over the last twenty years. You will have on average a day off per week, sometimes a full free weekend and sometimes you’ll be exploring another country stopping off on route to explore ashore.

2023 & 2024 Fast Track Yachtmaster Offshore Sail Dates
You have the ability to make 2023 or 2024 really count for a year of achievements, a change of direction or an opportunity to escape working from home and explore, enjoy and energise. If the dates below do not fit with your schedule, do let us know when YOU want to start and we will check if this works.
- 10 September 2023 £10,500
- 7 January 2024 £11,950
- 3 March 2024 £11,950
- 5 May 2024 £12,450
- 7 July 2024. £12.450
- 1 September 2024 £12,950

What’s Included:
- All accommodation & meals
- All 2500nm tidal experience
- STCW Basic Safety Training
- STCW Security Awareness
- RYA Powerboat Level 2
Navigation Modules
- Navigation Foundations
- Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster Theory
- IRPCS & Weather
- Radar & Electronic Plotting
- Passage planning & watch management
Short courses include:
- VHF (including GMDSS)
- Diesel Engine Training
- RYA PPR Course
- Electrical Systems
- Plumbing , Splicing & Deck Care



The next course:
The Yachtmaster Offshore can be seen as a starting point to many working adventures with the addition of a commercial endorsement. A career in super yachting may be your goal, or the fun of being a flotilla or charter skipper in a sunshine holiday environment, teaching others how to sail on the Cruising Instructor course or you may have an interest in becoming Ocean Yachtmaster and adventuring across oceans. All additional modules come at beneficial rates to our valued Fast Track family, chat to us during the course and we can guide you with your options.
How to Reserve Your Place:
We are accepting applications now for the 2023 course events please WhatsApp +447872 221143 email info@sailing.gi and we will send full course details & the process to apply to attend. You may tour of our facilities in person at any time, or we can run a personal WhatsApp video call tour giving you a chance to ask any questions that come to mind.