Right so I have decided to start looking at doing some qualifications for the trip. After having a look around I decided to have a go at the Coastal skipper course offered by the National Marine Corespondance School as it covers the RYA dayskipper course material as well as the RYA yachtmaster course and some other useful stuff. That should keep me busy for a few weeks! I have also emailed the local PADI dive centre in Guernsey about PADI courses so that I can become certified to do some SCUBA diving on the trip.
Unfortulatly the NMCS website is broken and wont let me enrol and I have not heard back yet about the PADI course! Looks liek some phone calls are in order tommorow.