Groups and bookings

The Boat School RYA Start Yachting Course is available as a rental and course pack where you complete the course with family and friends. It is also available as own-boat tuition.

Rental & course pack

With this option, you complete the course with a “closed” group of family and friends. This is perfect for family groups, such as parents and the kids, or even for a couple who want to try sailing or improve their technique with private instruction.

This option gives you the maximum flexibility in terms of dates. On this kind of course, we happy for you to bring passengers; however, this is quite a physical course and that means a lot of moving about. You need to make your “passengers” aware of this.

Rental & course pack: 1200€ (for up to 4 students).

This is the price for the course, not the price per person. If you have a group of four, the price will be 400€ per person.

Own boat tuition

If you already own a yacht, or if you have a friend who owns a sailboat, we’re more than happy to run an RYA Start Yachting course on your own boat. This option will be probably be cheaper than other options; however, you do need to make sure that the boat is up to the standard required by the RYA for training.

Own boat tuition: please contact us for pricing

Two days or three mornings – that’s all it takes! The RYA Start Sailing course is the perfect introduction to sail cruising for absolute beginners and those who just like the idea of “giving it a go”. It is the first step on the world-renowned RYA Sail Cruising scheme, and could be the beginning of a much greater journey!

The course is almost all hands on. By the end of this course, you will have started to learn the basic skills needed to become an active and useful crew member on a cruising sail yacht.

On RYA Start Yachting courses, you are the crew! Without your contribution the sails won’t go up, the boat will go nowhere and the yacht won’t be steered!

Practical skills, including…

• Steering a yacht under sail or power
• Raising and lowering the sails
• Ropework (basic knots)
• Man overboard recovery

& just the right amount of theory, including…

• Basic knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat
• Weather information
• The Rules of the Road
• Emergency equipment and procedures

Where will I be sailing?

This course is available in both Valencia (capital city of the Valencia Autonomous Community) and Denia. If you’re flying in from abroad, these are both excellent destinations for a short break sailing holiday.

The minimum age to participate in the course is 12. However, we only run this course for under 18’s if the parent or guardian is taking the course at the same time. Sailing is an active participation activity. You won’t need a medical certificate, but you should be in reasonable physical condition.

Where will I be staying?

Although we sometimes run RYA Start Yachting as “live on board” course, most of our guests choose to stay ashore in the evening, enjoyng the wide range of cultural and dining delights available in and around our marina locations. They then join the boat each morning for the course itself. Our days begin at between 8 and 9 and we finish training around about 2 PM.

There is no night sailing involved in this course.