Yacht CrewCourse
Master the skills to navigate coastal waters with confidence
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OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION
Your Skipper License
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Internationally Recognized
ISSA certified and accepted worldwide
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Professional Certification
Official documentation for coastal navigation
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Lifetime Achievement
Your gateway to maritime adventures
International Sailing Schools Association
Course Requirements
Experience required prior training
None
Certification required prior training
None
Minimum age required
16 years old
As per ISSA certification (minimum 18 days)
Who can run the training
ISSA Instructor or minimum Officers Skipper
Who can run the examination
ISSA examiner or minimum Officers Skipper
Send to ISSA by the school
Yes
Skills and knowledge required for a Yacht Crew
Yacht's construction
- Knows the basic parts of yacht and what are they designed for:
- a. Cockpit
- b. Billings
- c. Heads
- d. Galley
- e. Bow
- f. Stern, aft etc.
- g. Hull
- h. Mast
- i. Rigging
- j. Sail
- Can operate elementary yacht's systems:
- a. Trekis
- b. Toilet room
- c. Galley
- d. Plumcell
- Can fill up the water and diesel tanks
- Can operate the inboard engine
- a. Ignition
- b. Switch it off
- c. Check whether cooling system works
- d. Check fuel & steering
Line and spring handling
- Can combine two lines of the same and different diameter
- Can make:
- a. Bowline
- b. Hitch a line on a cleat
- c. Hitch on a stand
- d. Coil mooring lines
- e. Care
- f. Clove knot
- g. Take
- h. Needs tied on dock
- i. Sheet cleaning lines
- Can describe different ways of lashing a mooring
Handling sail sheets and halyards
- Ease.
- Set and bring down the sails
- Reef down and shake off the reefs
Handling fenders
- Can tie fenders on the yacht
- Effectively operate the (dis)mounting fender
Operating the anchor
- Gain:
- Prepare anchor for weighing (swithces and controls)
- Operate the windlass (letting out and raising the chain)
Operating the dinghy
- Gain:
- Inflate the dinghy or the deck and put it when in the deck
- Secure the dinghy to the yacht
- Use paddles effectively
- Secure the dinghy to the stand
Safety
- Gain:
- Knows how's helped the deck
- Use the safety equipment
- Use the defense signaling equipment (pyrotechnics, mirror, flags etc.)
- Can apply hand and torch signaling (flashlights – with consideration of natural (eyes) protection, fire hazard)
- Apply various methods to make a distress signal (at least 4 methods)
Other skills
- Gain:
- Keep observation of the sailing crew and pass over information about the direction and distance to objects
- Knows the lights of that own yacht in the night
- Can swim the needed distance
- Effectively hold the helm
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