{"id":1384,"date":"2007-07-02T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:34:59","slug":"rya-day-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/rya-day-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"RYA Day Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been down to Poole, the nine days ending 1st July.\u00a0The company Moonfleet Sailing offer a nine day combined theory and practical course for the RYA Day Skipper. This offers a weekend in the class room, five days and nights on one of their yachts for the practical and the following weekend to finish the theory and take the exam.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If the travel distance prohibits a return home, one needs to arrange accommodation for the first Saturday and the second Friday\/Saturday, although I was able to return home for Friday evening without too much trouble. They recommend several B&amp;Bs but I stayed in the Arndale Court Hotel, where the service and welcome was very friendly and the rooms both large and comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1133\/674882763_6d536a924e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/>We sailed from <b>Poole<\/b> to the <b>Folly Inn<\/b>, on the Isle of Wight and then sailed on to <b>Chichester Harbour<\/b>. We returned to <b>Portsmouth<\/b> and from their made a dash back to <b>Poole<\/b> against the wind, which was fun. We arrived back in Poole very late and discovered that Imran&#8217;s Tandoori Takeaway delivers to the Marina. i.e. Cobbs Quay Marina in Hamworthy, Poole.<\/p>\n<p>I have put my pictures of the week up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davelevy\/\">my page at flickr<\/a>, and put them in a set called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davelevy\/sets\/507564\/\">South Coast Sailing<\/a>. I hope you enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p>I also recorded my adventures on the then Sun\/Oracle blog, now copied to <a href=\"http:\/\/davelevy.info\/sailing\/\">davelevy.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been down to Poole, the nine days ending 1st July.\u00a0The company Moonfleet Sailing offer a nine day combined theory and practical course for the RYA Day Skipper. This offers a weekend in the class room, five days and nights on one of their yachts for the practical and the following weekend to finish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[79],"tags":[469,918,468,353,354,467,108],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-day-skipper","tag-life-death","tag-rya","tag-sailing","tag-solent","tag-south-coast","tag-travel-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/RYA-w650x200.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}