ISSA · Professional
Boat Master
Master the skills to navigate coastal waters with confidence. Comprehensive advanced course for experienced sailors seeking professional certification.
Courses
Professional
Duration
80 hours suggested
Level
Advanced
Certification
ISSA licence
OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION
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- 01Internationally RecognizedISSA certified and accepted worldwide
- 02Professional CertificationOfficial documentation for sailing
- 03Lifetime AchievementYour gateway to maritime adventures
International Sailing Schools Association
Course Requirements
01
Experience Required
1000 nautical miles
Including at least 400 miles on yachts over 25 feet
02
Prior Certification
ISSA Coastal Skipper
At least 10 days living on board in any capacity
03
Minimum Age
18 years old
Must be met at time of certification
04
Training Hours
80 hours suggested
Comprehensive advanced course
05
Examination
Theory + Practical
Complete assessment required
06
Application
Via ISSA School
Submit to authorized school only
Experiences1000 nautical milesISSA Coastal Skipper certifiedCoastal navigation
ISSA
Scope of Required Knowledge and Skills
01
Boat's Construction
- Knows function and working of a power-boat
- Open up, dips
- Can set up the engine and fuel tanks
- Loading and balancing
- Trim tabs
- Spare's box
- Charge procedures of cooling system
- Charge procedures of fuel lines
- Change procedures for batteries
- Use air cooling fan/blower
- Check essential elements for working inboard and outboard engines
- Knows stopping mechanisms of yacht's
02
Line and Spring Handling
- Can combine the lines of the power boat deferment elements
- Can cabel
- Thimbles
- Shackles in knots
- Clean and store fines
- Keep rope's lines
- Process steering lines
- Maintain different-sizes of fretting mooring
03
Handling Fenders
- Calls
- Choose and position fore and fenders
- Handling docking using spring mooring lines
- Prepare fenders and other mooring equipment
04
Operating the Anchor
- Calls
- Choose and anchor for mooring
- Prepare for anchors for dropping
- Check bottom on chart and depth if ok to let out for proper Anchorage
- Let it windlass method and other Characteristics
05
Safety
- Can perform the safety briefing
- Cares for crews on-deck
- Recognizes own limitations and danger situations
- Performs man-overboard (MOB) procedure in motions
- Different methods to pick-up different object
- Speaks to rescue and pick-up-out-in-water rescued crew
- Knows how to use rescuing and Life rafts of life
- Aware of effect of hypothermia
- Has a knowledge about fire-fighting on board
06
Handling Boat under Power
- Knows the effect of wind and tidal stream on Powerboats
- Enters and leaves mooring such as: Wharves, piles, Anchorage, bay
- A familiar with navigating in Rivers, locks and shallow water
- Speed-effects
- Running at high and wave speeds
- Handling in close quarters in harbours, Marinas locks and narrow channels
- Recognises suitable areas for re-anchoring
07
International Rules for Preventing Collisions at Sea
- Knows and recognizes navigation lights and shapes
- Determines the direction and speed of another Craft
- Knows movement signals in Confides
- Knows special sighting
- Give away boat
- Knows light
- Light signals at dusk
- Understands sound signals of power and sailing boats
- Has a knowledge about right of passage and overtaking
- Familiar with principles and rules with respect to restricted visibility
08
Navigational Skills
- Follows the navigational terms used in modern map and chart solutions
- Understands tidal streams and currents
- Checks and uses the Buoyage charts, navigational lights
- Understands basic chart points
- Understands chart datums and tidal adjustments
- Understands contours and Chart soundings lines
- Use instruments
- Understands compass variation
- Knows charts notational abbreviations of buoyage systems
- Fix/Plot estimated track and Ground track
09
Terrestrial Navigation
- Knows and demonstrates the basic/terms from geography
- Degrees F
- Decimal minutes of arcs
- Understand metric rules
- Understands chart's book and plots
- Converts and uses nautical miles, kilometres and miles
- Fix using determine charts & plottation tools
- Plot chart information via GPS
- Navigational information
- Re-calculate and re-plot course
10
Electronic-Based Navigation
- Knows the use of the Global system
- Use real data
- Can use main charts electronic console on-GPS
- Can enter charter point by/using charts or GPS tables
- Integrates between navigation plottation and electronic digital systems
11
Meteorology
- Knows the world around seas and including the navigating set's wind
- Understands by Beaufort wind scale and forecasting sea condition
- Has the basic knowledge about high, low and ocean/side-fronts
- Can navigate in accordance by nautical
- Has the basic knowledge about local/home harbour warnings
12
Other
- Using a personal floating apparatus and buoyance for water communication
- Knows and shows basic yacht line etiquette and safety
- Knows different elements of IRPCS and Flags/sound sound
- Show's respect for dangerous sea tems rules
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- Duration
- 80 hours suggested
- Level
- Advanced
- Base
- Hondarribia · Gipuzkoa