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Volunteer Sea Staff Training
Overview
Ocean Youth Trust Scotland places great value in the contribution of its volunteers and has developed a very strong culture of training and development over the years.
OYT Scotland is wholly committed to providing a comprehensive, high quality, subsidised training programme to provide sea-staff with the level of competency required to deliver the highest standards of safety and personal development on our youth voyages.
We deliver a number of courses in house (on our vessels) and are also happy to recommend training with external providers.
To book a place on a course, please fill out your Training request form.pdf and submit it to our Volunteer Coordinator
Big boat training courses include;
Voyage Induction Training
Bosun Training
Advanced Bosun Training
Big Boat Seamanship
Advanced Big Boat Seamanship
Command Training
Click here for the 2012 Course Detaails
Ocean Youth Trust Scotland & RYA Online Courses;
RYA Shorebased Courses;
We offer our volunteers the following RYA shorebased courses at our annual training seminar in February each year:
RYA Diesel Maintenance
RYA Radar
RYA First Aid
RYA Short Range VHF
RYA Sea Survival
Our next training seminar will take place in Stirling Managment Centre 18th &19th February 2012, more details including all courses offered and cost of courses will be on our website soon.
RYA Practical Courses;
RYA Competent Course
By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day duties on board, while also gaining valuable sea time onboard our vessels.
Next available course; 27th-31st August 2012, starting @ 10.00, Victoria Harbour, Greenock & finishing @ 16.00, Victoria Harbour,Greenock.
Cost: £150 per person
RYA Powerboat level 2
Learn to handle boats safely at high and low speeds and other important boat handling skills. This is a very practical course ideal for OYT Scotland Bosuns or anyone wanting to learn more about powerboats/ dinghys. It brings all these skills together including coastal passage planning.
No previous experience is required.
New for 2012:
We are delighted to announce that in 2012 we will be working in partnership with Sport Scotland's Cumbrae centre, OYT Scotland members will be able to benifit from a number of discounted courses; including Day Skipper, Coastal Yachtmaster and Yachtmaster Offshore course and exams.
Details of how to book your course will be availble on our website soon.
Soft Skill courses;
OYT Scotland deliver a number of youth work modules each year at our training seminar, including; Dealing with difficult behaviour, working with young people with additional needs, how to mentor young people on voyages- more details of courses will be available soon.
We are also delighted to recommend the following external providers. Many training calenders are updated weekly, we recommend you check regularly to find the course you want:
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