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Dinghy Sail Instructor Assessment Week
Employer: Flying Fish Online
Country: Greece
Salary: N/A
Accommodation Provided: No Training Provided: No
Start Date: 27th September
End Date: 4th October
Our Dinghy Sail Instructor Assessment Week is an intensive course leading to the RYA Dinghy Instructor qualification, preparing you for work as a professional or club instructor.
The course combines on water training and assessment with sessions ashore covering dinghy land drills, teaching techniques and related theory topics.
You will learn how to train beginners and improvers in single and two-handed dinghies. You will develop an imaginative approach to teaching safe and efficient sailing, as well as the theory that underlies it.
Course content:
RYA teaching method for
• Launching and landing
• Starting, stopping and steering
• Sailing upwind and tacking
• The five essentials
• Sailing downwind and gybing
• Land drills ashore for tacking and gybing
Teaching and coaching techniques
• Delivering theory presentations, briefing and debriefing, running on water coaching
• RYA Youth Scheme & Sailability
• Towing & rescue techniques
To gain the instructor qualification you will be expected to demonstrate good communication skills, an understanding of the RYA training scheme, in-depth theory knowledge, group management ability, safety awareness and an effective coaching style.
The course is based at at Club Vass and Wildwind, twin high-performance centres at Vassiliki, Lefkas, Greece.
Budget accommodation is at our own Fish House, simple tourist rooms in the village. Superior accommodation is at Andromeda, between the village and Club Vass. For more information on the training location, dinghy fleet and accommodation, use the Destinations link above left.
If you travel with Flying Fish, you fly on Sunday from London or Manchester to Preveza in Greece.