Welcome to the Yacht Designers and Surveyors Association Training Hub.

If you are looking to enter into our industry, are a Small Commercial Vessel Operator or if you are a practising Yacht and Small Craft Designer or Surveyor, we hope that you will find all the information you need here to start, qualify, progress or upskill.

This hub has been developed to provide advice and guidance to those wishing to become a designer or surveyor with career information, formal education and short professional development courses, whilst for existing professionals we have brought together a number of resources to help your professional development, both technical skills and business support courses.

If you are an operator who’s vessel is coded with the YDSA we can help you with a hub full of courses that will help you and your business, we have free and reduced rate business skills courses such as accountancy and social media training to discounts with training providers.

Use the bar above to browse and if you have any questions, or proposals for courses not covered that would support you and your business, please get in touch.