RYA COURSES

In June 2005 we went down to Falmouth with our friend Eve from Erith Yacht Club to take RYA practical sailing courses. Eve and I did the RYA Day Skipper and Pam did the RYA Competent Crew. We sailed with Trysail Sailing School.

Here are a few photos from an extremely demanding five days. Little time to take any more photographs. We all passed the course!


Here are the three of us on our boat for the course - Saffron of Kernow, a 29 foot  Westerly Konsort.
Eve with Alan & Pam.


Pam and Eve making the most of time at the Marina in Falmouth. Boats everywhere!


All sorts of nationalities and types near the Maritime Museum in Falmouth.









We practised every manouvre under both sail and power. He we are moored on a pontoon up the River Fal.
Alan with Course Instructor & Skipper Chris and Eve. These are only temporary mooring lines which is why there are no springs in this photograph!
We arrived here under cover of darkness have navigated  from buoy to buoy using light characteristics alone.



















We had to do some theory as well as practical work. Here are Chris, Pam and Eve relaxing at our anchorage near the mouth of the Helford River.


Here is a view of some boats moored in Falmouth. Just a few. We had to practise our tacking and gybing in and out of some of these!


Fowey (Copyright West Country Pictures)










We spent a couple of days at Mevagissey after the course had finished to relax and recover. A view of the Harbour with Fowey in the far distance where we spent a night.
relaxing in Mevagissey after the completion of our course.

























Eve and Pam



















Pam and I visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan on the Saturday while Eve travelled home to race at Erith Yacht Club on the Sunday. One small part of the Italian garden.



























The birds in the garden are so tame. Many different species came very close
including Robins and male and female Chaffinches..














Chaffinch


Mevagissey Harbour after a lovely day.


A race on the Helford River of traditional Falmouth working boats viewed from our Anchorage on Wednesday evening 8th June 2005