Keelboat Levels 1,2,3Course
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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 Keelboat Level 1
- Can sail a keelboat under instruction, in light winds, respecting the collision regulations, and paying attention to balance and trim
- Wears appropriate clothing and buoyancy
- Can rig and reef a keelboat
- Can identify reaching, run turn and return back to departure point
- Can use a winch and trim sails on all points of sailing
- Can set clear headed and tack
- Can run, and gybe
- Can stop the boat on a reach, close-hauled, and from a run
- Can pick up a mooring
- Can sail alongside a jetty
- Can anchor
- Can prepare for towing
- Can tie a figure of eight knot and a bowline
- Knows, sources of weather forecasts, and sail aerodynamics
- Understands the importance of the crew working as a team
- Knows the procedure for man overboard
Skills and knowledge required for a Keelboat Level 2
- Can sail a keelboat in moderate winds
- Knows about keelboat rigs and equipment
- Can sail a compass course
- Knows the Collision Regulations
- Knows about sources of pilotage information, and how to use them
- Can gybe reach to reach with spinnaker (optional)
- Can beat within a corridor
- Can tie a bowline and heat seal rope ends
- Can anchor
- Can interpret weather forecasts
- Knows about, points of sailing, buoyage, lee shores, overheard power lines, anchors, boat maintenance
- Knows about tides, sources of information and how to calculate local tides
- Is aware of emergency procedures and First Aid afloat
- Plus level 1 criteria
Skills and knowledge required for a Keelboat Level 3
- Can sail a keelboat in strong winds
- Completed all man overboard procedures
- Can interpret passage information, to perfect manoeuvres
- Can detect wind shifts
- Can equip and maintain a keelboat
- Knows what to do in the event of a dismasting
- Can plan a passage
- Can demonstrate an alternative means of propulsion
- Can moor more accurately
- Knows about weather forecasting and the tide
- Can cover and lee bow another keelboat
- 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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