Practical courses

About us

Yacht school Aquatoria presents to your attention training for handling a sailing-power yacht with further holding of license. The company deals with practical and theoretical training to handle a Sailing or Power yacht from international yacht school IYT for various categories of a skipper’s license: Bareboat skipper & VHF Operator, Yachtmaster Coastal, Yachtmaster Offshore и Yachtmaster Ocean, Instructor.

In the given section you can see our practical courses based on many years of experience of our instructors and IYT school.

Bareboat skipper "for beginners"-2 weeks

- this course gives you a possibility to train for a captain and handle a sailing yacht individually. Recommended for those who has no experience in sailing and has never been on a yacht even as a sailor man.

Bareboat skipper " Express course "- 1 week

- The course gives a possibility for those who has already been on a yacht and knows what yacht is to train within 1 week to be a skipper and handle a sailing yacht individually.

Bareboat skipper "Express course" - 1 week + power

- Favourable offer for those who yearns to attain maximum experience with minimal waste shortly! This course gives a possibility for those who has already been on a yacht and knows what yacht is to train within 1 week to be a skipper and handle a sailing yacht individually.

Bareboat skipper "All at once" sail -2 weeks + power

- Favourable offer for those who yearns to attain maximum experience with minimal waste shortly! The course is divided into three parts.

Yachtmaster Coastal - 1 week

– Wonderful variant for experienced captains to upgrade their level and sail in fog, at night and further from the coast!

Course IYT Instructor sail

- It is obligatory to complete the corresponding course to become a qualified instructor.

How we teach:

The training of yacht skipper of IYT school consists of theoretical and practical training.

All courses are held in Russian by a Russian-speaking instructor.

- Theoretical yacht training may be held in two variants, the choice is up to you:

You may choose the variant of theoretical training, either study in the classroom or on our site online. (Online variant is very comfortable for participants from other regions)

In the classroom we provide group training in the classroom environment. The training is held in week-ends, duration of the course is 30 hours. In this period you will be taught by professional instructors-lecturers, they will reply all your questions and assist you in gaining required information.

Or online from any place worldwide + personal consultations with captain-instructor. You just need to have connection to the web. The course suits both sail and motor training. When coming to practice you repeat received theoretical knowledge every day and in the end of training pass written examinations.

You set appropriate date for training

You won’t need to adjust to our timetable, now it’s our turn to make it!

The course may start any Saturday you’d like.

You choose the region appropriate for you

We make selection of yachts for you and you choose the most appropriate one

After we know the region, the date and the course you would like to pass we start yacht selecting for you.

Yachts hold from 4 to 8 persons. They differ with configuration and price. The cost of a week charter varies from 1000 Euro up to ten of thousands Euro per week. Average cost is about 1500-3000 Euro.

You choose appropriate course for training

You may choose the most appropriate course for you:

1 week, with or without power, or perhaps 2 weeks? The choice is up to you!!!

Whatever you choose theoretical course is obligatory

You choose the instructor of our school

Our school trained a lot of instructors who pass examination of the main instructor of the school annually, that is why we guarantee the quality of your training.

Instructor services cost from 1000 to 1500 Euro per week. All depends on instructor level. In case you choose dates within high season or the training area is very distant we will have to add to cost of the service fair for air tickets.

Total

The price may include according to your wish: transfer, air tickets, cooker, parking in berths, grocery shopping. All depends on your wishes.

After you have chosen everything you come and start training.

If you come with the family, the price per person is more than acceptable and you receive individual training on the dates and place you like.

Feedback

I chose a school by chance, searching the net, looking at price, impression from the site, fleet and of course feedbacks! Having made up my mind firstly, I called Yury. After our talk I took a final decision! Yury seemed to be involved in the process and professional so much! And it occurred that this impression was real))) One can seldom meet such professionals that are in love with their business. A separate thankfulness to a steady first mate Galina, who taught us multiple things and was so motherlike and attentive to us))) Two weeks flied by like two days) but were filled with a half year emotions. The result is the license received. Without thinking twice we tested the quality of training, charted a yacht by ourselves already. It occurred we were taught well)))
The main thing is that when we needed help during the charter, Yury lent a hand lightly! We weren’t failed in our need. And it is appreciated doubly!
in three months we are going by ourselves in charter in Croatia again, we’re addicted now)))

Konstantin

Good day, I’d like to thank you and your company for yacht training in Croatia. Me and my son spent time full well with a great benefit for us. A special thanks for a really professional instructor! Thanks to Vasiliy, who justified our expectations totally, we immersed ourselves on the atmosphere of sailing and got our first experience is yacht sailing.

Eduard

Yura, Galya and of course VIKA
I don’t know what makes me happy more – such amazing people I met or the things I learned!
(oh Lord, I really can handle BIG AND HUGE YACHT and make up a route by myself, though I do not differ from a first try a lighthouse from “hey, it’s a house on the hill”!!) Yur, I realized it only when I came to Moscow and several days have passed. Yes, I know, that there are a lot of things to deliver on, but now I can compartmentalize clearly how I’d berth in marina, mooring or at anchor. That’s why for sure await for me to upgrade.
The information is acquired in a strange way, perhaps it is these days when everything becomes on its place. After these two weeks I realize that I can take my friends for a drive easily, but at the same time I feel great responsibility and that practice and practice one more time is needed.
Of course Croatia is incomparable, especially sea side. I regret that I didn’t sail everywhere and didn’t climb Žut anyhow (notwithstanding that everybody call this island “Jut’’ meaning “chilling”)) I understood too that 31 knots wind is not so scary. Understood that you cannot miss “BEER time”, it’s above all! Do you know, what was the thing to stick in my memory? When we docked to a restaurant’s berth, had our dinner and listened to our yacht’s music cause it was so close. We listened Chizh and others.
And those moments. when we entered marinas, Yura shouted marinas’ workmen: “ Friend, may I stay here?” and showed the place where he wants to stay. It was better any VHF-station)) Fellas, if you only saw that sunsets. When we entered Trogir, SUCK sunset followed us that it felt like to stop and watch it till the end. My emotions come a bit with delay, you admire this all quietly and without emotions, maybe for the people not to think you’re a little fool, but yachting brought into my life something special, and I do not understand so far how to combine it with current daily cares, but I want this more!
And finally a great thanks to a patient Victoria. I asked her about little things many times, but she always replied me with a smile and explained everything in details.
Of course, yachting is great, but the most important is the people who are behind this.

Ksenia

Three days ago we returned from Croatia, where we with my wife certified for bareboat skipper. I want to thank Victoria for organization of training and a special thanks to captain Vlad. Thanks to Vlad we not only received necessary knowledge, skills and abilities, but realized the responsibility the captain takes, but also got into the spirit of seaman’s life, romantics of a salt wind. Thank you everyone, we do not say good bye!

Victor

Do not hesitate. I confess I was hesitating. I learned in another school, didn’t hear anuthing about Aquatoria, no acquaintances could advice me. Who knows, what is really in it. But. The desire to sail, refresh knowledge and skills was awesome, and I had one week only. I was quick and took decision in few days and transferred money. And everything happened! A week that is worth a year.
First of all Yury, because everything starts from the head. Captain-example. Responsibility: thinks about everyone, responsible for everything. At the same time he is not a nuisance at all – a man with a sense of humor. He creates an inviting, but strict atmosphere aboard, where strange people become a team during a week. Yachtsman-racer. He showed how to adjust sails delicately for a yacht to be fastest one. And, what is important, he understands person given his heart to sails. His wife and assistant Galya. Her hands not only create a combination of a sea order with house and home, but are irreplaceable at dockings and turns. Everything matched: good wind, good guys in a team and, even, the breaks that became adventures. Surely I’ll come again.
Do not hesitate.

Andrey

I completed the beginner’s course.
I liked it.
Yura is going nice! Tells everything clearly and simply. Not every teacher does like him. Theory combines with practice well and wraps our minds and hands around. Between the lessons he sails on yacht in such beautiful places, that you want to come again. And you become “yacht’addicted”. Yura’s right hand – Galya, whose example draws in other women. It’regret I came without my wife. (There learned two married couples on a yacht together with me, so I advice others) In September I’m going again. At young captains’ regatta. Now with family and friends.
Thanks a lot to Yura and Galya.
I always raise the third drink “to those who are at sea”. Now I will remind you too with good words. Seven feet under keel!!!

Vitaly Bessonov

I was training on yacht Vika. Agree with previous posts. Thanks Yury for a cool training, he taught us from morning till night and shared the material in such a way that during this “quick week” he sum it up in, made me feel a real responsible skipper, and told many new things. A special thanks for a yacht. A comfortable, well-groomed boat, I’d sail on it one more time with a great pleasure) к)

Alexey

May 2015 Croatia, training, yacht VIKA. To say that it was cool is not to say anything. Individual way to everyone, patiently, clearly, with humor. They unlock you, make you believe in your strength and oh, miracle! you get it!!! Till the end of training a team of rather strange people united so much that we will continue communicating ashore certainly.)) We will go on shipping out with Aquatoria, all the more Yura always has something to teach, it all just begins УРА,УРА, УРАААА!!!!!))))

Fedor

Jura and Aquatoria team! Thank you for training. It was pleasant and interesting. I went to get knowledge – and I did, besides I met interesting people, and I am very glad about it! )))
Yacht VIKA is excellent – groomed and nice. It was very comfortable to learn.
To say shortly everything SUPER – THANK YOU.

Sergey

Thank you very much for incredible patience and captain’s nerves of steel )) Yury, you are a perfect teacher, I don’t know how you managed to give during 7 days so much for the one who knew about yachting nothing at all. I am very happy that I fortuned to study on behalf of the teacher with a God-given talent and simply an understanding person.
Sea, sail and wind found their way into my heart and I hope to feel this freedom sometime again. Thank you for magnificent havens, breathtaking views and those fancy restaurants )))
Special thanks to the team, it was great, men!!!
Let’s do it again? )))

Denis

About us

In the given section you can see our practical courses based on many years of experience of our instructors and IYT school.

Bareboat skipper "for beginners"-2 weeks

Bareboat skipper " Express course "- 1 week

Bareboat skipper "Express course" - 1 week + power

Bareboat skipper "All at once" sail -2 weeks + power

Yachtmaster Coastal - 1 week

Course IYT Instructor sail

How we teach: