This year, I achieved my objective by completing the Day Skipper practical course successfully in the South of England with Hamble Point Sailing School. The training, which took 5 days, started at Hamble Point marina. The 115NM journey brought me to Yarmouth, Portland harbour, then back to the Solent via the Needles, to East Cowes, and to Gosport near Portsmouth, with plenty of opportunities to practice gybing, tacking, anchoring, berthing, motoring, navigating, piloting, MOB, and… cooking !