RYA SAILING SCHOOL · ALICANTE · COSTA BLANCA
RYA SailingCourses on theCosta Blanca.
From Start Yachting to Day Skipper, train all year round on the waters between Alicante and Tabarca — small groups, real sea miles, and practical guidance from a RYA Yachtmaster.
RYA courses · All year, four seasons · Small groups
RYA COURSES
Choose your starting point
RECOGNISED TRAINING CENTRE
Official RYA training from Marina Alicante.
Certificate courses are taught to Royal Yachting Association standards.
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New to sailing
Start with practical training designed for first-time and developing crew.
Start Yachting Practical
Two-day live-aboard introduction
Competent Crew Practical
Five-day live-aboard practical course
WHY TRAIN WITH WALTER
Walter Henderson
Master of Yachts 200GT · Alicante, since 2003
Your skipper holds a Master of Yachts 200GT — a full commercial maritime licence that most private charter skippers do not hold — and has sailed the Costa Blanca since 2003. RYA courses are taught in small groups on the warm, steady waters between Alicante and Tabarca, in English, Spanish, French and German.
The 200GT licence is a commercial qualification. It is assessed to the same standard as professional officers of merchant vessels — not just recreational skippers. Most charter operators don’t hold it.
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PRIVATE SAILING
Choose the kind of sea day you want.
Private sailing runs all year round across the four seasons — from a few hours off Alicante to a multi-day Mediterranean voyage. Start with the kind of day you want.
Routes depend on weather, sea conditions, timing and skipper approval.
DAYS ON THE WATER
What It Actually
Feels Like
Whether you are logging sea miles on an RYA course or sailing for the pure pleasure of it, the days find their own rhythm. You wake at anchor — perhaps to the sound of lines moving in a light swell, perhaps to a silence so complete it feels unfamiliar. You make coffee in the galley, carry it to the cockpit, and the coast already looks different from yesterday.
The anchor is holding well. On a course there are skills to sharpen and miles to log. On a private charter there is nowhere you have to be. Either way, the day is yours to sail.
Breakfast is whatever you want, whenever you want it.
The morning might be sailing — trimming, helming, reading the wind with the skipper beside you. It might be swimming from the boat in water you can see straight to the bottom, the sand rippled by the current.
Beginner or skipper, you step ashore with more than you arrived with: real sea miles, quiet confidence, and a stretch of coast that now feels like your own.
AFTERNOON
Lunch somewhere new. An afternoon of passage-making or rest at anchor, depending on the plan and the wind. As the light begins to lower, you find a calm bay along the coast where the evening is right.
BACK ON BOARD
Dinner is unhurried, the day’s lessons settling in, the table yours for as long as you want it. Back on board, the stars overhead — and tomorrow, the sea again.
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