Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus & Logbook

The book is partly a brochure and partly a record of experience. It contains details of all the RYA courses imaginable and shows how different courses relate to each other so that one can plan progression in training and qualifications. There are then pages to record progress through different courses so that each skill can be signed off by an instructor. There are blank tables to record on going experience and details of specific qualifying experience for advanced courses. These provide a template for recording experience. Finally there are pages to "attach" course certificates.On the one hand it is a comprehensive and inexpensive book that if used to the full could record several years of investment in course fees and time spent gaining invaluable life changing experience. I question whether it will survive long in a sometimes damp kit bag to become a treasured momento. Hard covers would be better.

It’s a must if you’re learning how to sail.

My reservation when ordering this was that the publishing date listed was 1 April 2015, so I worried it might be obsolete. However I was relieved to see when the book arrived that this is a much more recent edition published in May 2023 (I'm writing this review in July 2024).Next-day delivery as expected. Ordered as recommended by the Start Yachting Course I have coming up. Looking forward to putting the logbook to use.

Covers everything in the scheme that candidates are required for each step of the scheme. I just wish the RYA would stick to one format and use binders that make it possible to replace pages when revisions occur to the scheme! Otherwise we will all end up with lots of partially completed books!

Does the job it is supposed to do. Already used it when passing my Day Skipper practical. Will provide a good cumulative record of sailing but a bigger logbook may be good for keeping more detailed records of sailing too.

Very useful book for anyone starting out in sailing. Full details of the RYA pathway from novice to Yachtmaster and plenty of logbook pages to tick off those hours on the water.

As one would expect from the RYA, very clear, very comprehensive and helpfully very challenging

This is the logbook that you need to have from starting to sail right through to Yachtmaster qualified