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An RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Certificate is the benchmark qualification for professional yacht captains and a passport to worldwide employment in the yachting industry. For recreational skippers, it is a validation of competence and substantial personal achievement.
A Flying Fish Yachtmaster Fast Track programme is an immersive and exhilarating training adventure in a superb location and an efficient pathway to certification.
Choose from our Yachtmaster Short Courses menu and build your own pathway to Yachtmaster. Or contact us and ask us to help you customise a personal training plan to suit your needs.
If you aspire to the gold standard of professional yacht captains, explore the options for Yachtmaster Ocean certification and take your yachting career to new horizons.
Our Superyacht Crew Training courses are a springboard to work as a deck or interior crew in the burgeoning superyacht sector.
Unlock exciting opportunities in one of the most prestigious fields of yachting.
Flying Fish has trained RYA/MCA Yachtmasters and Superyacht crew in the UK and Australia since 1996.
As Australia’s longest-established RYA-approved training centre, we boast over one million sea miles of experience under our keels.
Every year, we welcome around one hundred new Yachtmaster students from various countries and backgrounds to our training centre in Sydney.
Some are gap year students, some are aspiring yachting professionals, and others are taking a career break or starting an active and fulfilling retirement.
Our past graduates include Clipper RTW Race Skippers, Charter Yacht Captains, Superyacht Deck Officers and crew, and Flying Fish, RYA Yachtmaster Instructors training the next generation.
Whatever your aspirations, goals, or previous experience, Flying Fish can help you obtain this prestigious qualification.
Break free from the rat race, join a Flying Fish Yachtmaster Fast Track programme, and start an action-packed career on the water!
Leaving your comfort zone to recharge and learn new skills in a challenging and exhilarating environment can be a soul-nourishing experience.
You will discover your potential, gain a wealth of knowledge and skills, and leave the course as a confident skipper with a package of valuable qualifications and a network of sailing buddies.
Whether you start a career in sailing after the course, go back to your old job, or buy a boat and sail around the world, you will have rebooted your operating system and had the adventure of a lifetime, which will set you on course for a lifetime of adventure!
Obtaining an RYA Yachtmaster certification can offer numerous advantages and open exciting opportunities in the sailing world. Below are ten reasons why getting an RYA Yachtmaster certification might be worth considering:
Examinations for RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Certificates of Competence are conducted on board by RYA appointed Yachtmaster Examiners.
On passing your RYA Yachmaster examination, you have been found competent to act as Master of a vessel up to 24 metres in length for operations limited by your level of certification, as shown below.
All of the above can be endorsed for commercial use within the limitations shown above. See Yachtmaster commercial use below.
Yachtmaster Offshore and Coastal candidates require the following prior to submitting for examination.
Required sea time and qualifying passages must be logged in the 10 years prior to examination
Yachtmaster Coastal
Yachtmaster Offshore
If you intend to use your Yachtmaster certificate commercially anywhere in the world you will also need.
For commercial operations in Australia you will also require
A certificate of medical fitness is also required
Details for certificate of medical fitness in Australia