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Passage Planner
Pick a passage, work out your timings, tidal gates and bolt-holes, then submit your plan to the AI Yachtmaster examiner. Training data only — not for navigation.
Plan your own passageDay Skipper
Solent and Dorset
Cowes to Poole Harbour
A classic daylight coastal hop west through the Solent, out of Hurst Narrows and across Poole Bay.
≈ 29 nm
Catalan coast (home waters)
Barcelona coastal hop to Port Ginesta
A short daylight passage south-west past the commercial port and airport approach to Port Ginesta.
≈ 15 nm
Coastal Skipper
North Antrim coast and North Channel
Coleraine to Carrickfergus
Out over the Bann bar, east through Rathlin Sound and round the Antrim coast to Belfast Lough.
≈ 65 nm
North Channel and County Down
Portrush to Strangford
A long coastal passage through two serious tidal gates: Rathlin Sound and the Strangford Narrows.
≈ 85 nm
English Channel and Channel Islands
Lymington to St Peter Port, Guernsey
Out via the Needles Channel, across the shipping lanes to the Casquets and down the Little Russel.
≈ 87 nm
Yachtmaster
Western Channel and North Brittany
Dartmouth to Paimpol, Brittany
An offshore crossing of about 95 nm, through the shipping lanes to a rocky, large-range tidal coast.
≈ 97 nm
Balearic Sea
Barcelona to Palma, Mallorca
An open-water crossing of about 125 nm with overnight watches and a landfall in the Bay of Palma.
≈ 126 nm
Balearic Sea (home waters)
Barcelona to Fornells, Menorca
The crossing between our two bases, about 130 nm, with a landfall on Menorca's exposed north coast.
≈ 119 nm