YACHT skipper training 2020: Astro navigation: Sextant workshop with Bobby Schenk

Bobby Schenk has been an institution in this profession for decades. And rightly so. He understood early on how to explain and teach the correct use of the sextant in such a way that the technique can also be implemented quickly and stress-free at sea.

Instead of overburdening the sailors with unnecessarily complicated calculations or demanding an irrelevant mock accuracy, the doyen of blue water sailing propagates a far simpler, more practicable method - orientated more towards the Anglo-Saxon model than the examination regulations of the German Sailing Association.

And it gets even better: with the help of a computer simulation specially developed by Schenk, it is now possible for the first time to carry out realistic location determinations with the sextant in the YACHT seminar room in Hamburg. A real highlight that makes exercises reproducible and thus guarantees faster learning success. A real highlight that guarantees rapid learning success.

The renowned German manufacturer Cassens & Plath provides several different sextant models for you to try out. If you already have your own sextant, you are welcome to bring it with you.

We are very proud and happy to be able to offer you this new addition to our course programme. If you have always wanted to practise astro-navigation, now is the ideal time. You won't find a more experienced and entertaining instructor than Bobby Schenk, or a workshop that is so focussed on the essentials. So don't delay. Places are limited and are likely to be fully booked within a short time.

DATE Saturday, 8 February (from 9 am to 5 pm) and Sunday, 9 February 2020 (9 am to 12 pm)
LOCATION In the editorial offices of YACHT, ABC-Straße 21 in 20354 Hamburg
PRICE 320 Euro per person
(only 290 euros for YACHT subscribers and 260 euros for an accompanying person). No subscription yet? Then take out online here !
The price includes drinks, a lunch snack, teaching material and the book "Astronavigation without formulas, practical" by Bobby Schenk from the Delius Klasing publishing house. No previous knowledge is necessary.

BOBBY SCHENK
He is one of Germany's best-known sailors and is also one of Delius Klasing Verlag's most successful authors thanks to his numerous specialised books, many of them bestsellers. Since the 1970s, he and his wife Karla have sailed highly acclaimed long-distance voyages, including a circumnavigation and a one-stop voyage from Tahiti around Cape Horn to the Mediterranean, navigating exclusively using his astronavigation method - as many other circumnavigators have done to this day. From the very beginning, he earned special merits in the field of navigation. His astro book, which all seminar participants receive, is considered a standard work even among captains of commercial ships and has been updated and republished several times since 1977.

REGISTRATION Unfortunately, the workshop is already fully booked. Should we put you on the waiting list or inform you about a new date? Then please contact Nadine Timm on 040 / 33966640 or training@yacht.de.