ISSA · Recreational
Dinghy Level 1, 2, 3
Master the skills to navigate coastal waters with confidence. Progressive small boat sailing certification from beginner to advanced racing techniques.
Courses
Recreational
Duration
Variable (3 levels)
Level
Beginner to Advanced
Certification
ISSA licence
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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
None
No prior experience needed for Level 1
02
Prior Certification
None
No previous certification required
03
Training Provider
ISSA Instructor
Or minimum Offshore Skipper qualified
04
Examination Provider
ISSA Instructor
Or minimum Offshore Skipper qualified
05
Application Process
Via ISSA School
Only through authorised ISSA school
ExperiencesNo prior experience required for Level 1Small boat sailingProgressive certification
ISSA
Scope of Required Knowledge and Skills
01
Dinghy Level 1 - Beginner Skills
- 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 using body weight and 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
02
Dinghy Level 2 - Intermediate Skills
- Can plane a dinghy in moderate wind and wave conditions
- On a run, can maintain constant heel without body movement, spinnaker 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, buoyage, lee shores, tides, power lines, anchors, boat maintenance
- Plus level 1 criteria
03
Dinghy Level 3 - Advanced Racing Skills
- 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
- 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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- Duration
- Variable (3 levels)
- Level
- Beginner to Advanced
- Base
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