The examination involves a demonstration of skippering skills, boat handling, general seamanship, navigation, safety awareness and knowledge of ship construction, ballasting, radio, radar, collision regulations, meteorology and signals.
Bareboat charters involve a person renting a boat or cabin and skippering it themselves if they are renting the whole yacht.
His wife later told the press that he first became alarmed by the state of the oceans when skippering the vessel during the record attempts.
Something like one-third of the single homeless are living in squats and "skippering".
That is why people are spending their days in day centres and their nights skippering.
However, his first task was skippering the landing pontoon, ferrying stores from ship to shore.
