Dinghy Level 1,2,3Course
Master the skills to navigate coastal waters with confidence
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ISSA certified and accepted worldwide
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Official documentation for coastal navigation
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International Sailing Schools Association
Course Requirements
Experience required prior training
None
Certification required prior training
None
Who can run the training
ISSA Instructor or minimum Offshore Skipper
Who can do the examination
ISSA Instructor or minimum Offshore Skipper
How to submit the application
Only through authorised ISSA school
Skills and knowledge required for a Dinghy Level 1
- Can raise, lower and adjust sails safely in light winds
- Knows the Collision Regulations
- Wears appropriate clothing and buoyancy
- Can rig, reef, and launch a dinghy
- Can balance the boat, a) using body weight b) using the sheet
- Can identify reaching, run turn, and 'follow' back to departure point
- On a reach, can accelerate and decelerate with the sheet only
- Can accelerate and decelerate with the tiller, trimming sails appropriately
- Can set clear-headed and tack
- Can set by-the-lee, gybe from this position and can gybe
- Can stop the boat on a reach, close-hauled, and from a run
- Can prepare for towing
- Can recover a capsized dinghy
- Can tie a figure of eight knot, and a round turn & two half hitches
- Knows about weather forecasts, and sail aerodynamics
Skills and knowledge required for a Dinghy Level 2
- Can plane a dinghy, in moderate wind and wave conditions
- On a run, can maintain a constant angle of heel without body movement, spinnaker (optional) correctly trimmed
- Can reach with a constant angle of heel
- Can trapeze and has smoothly
- Can plane upwind and downwind, or re-start on a pre-determined tack
- Can tack and replicate trim and heel
- Can gybe reach to reach with spinnaker (optional)
- Can beat within a corridor
- Can do a bowline and hard rope ends
- Can recover an inverted dinghy
- Can release a trapeze harness
- Can reduce sail alone
- Knows interpret weather forecasts
- Can name all parts of sailing dinghy boat, buoyage, lee shores, tides, overhand power lines, anchors, boat maintenance
- Plus level 1 criteria
Skills and knowledge required for a Dinghy Level 3
- Can plane a dinghy in strong wind conditions
- Can tune a dinghy, centreboard, mast rake, vang, Cunningham, outhaul, barber haulers
- Can roll tack and gybe
- Can sail backwards
- Can sail without a rudder
- Can detect wind shifts
- Can roll tack
- Able to start at correct end of line
- Can cover and lee bow another dinghy
- Can determine local weather patterns and wind strategy
- Knows Sailing Instructions, and the Racing Rules of Sailing
- Plus levels 1 & 2 criteria
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