ISSA Inshore Skipper weekend course

This course is designed to provide training and practice for the ISSA Inshore Skipper certification.

Minimum age required: 16 years old

Suggested number of training hours: 50 hours

3 weekends in a row, 1 day night sailing, 7 days practice and theory

The course is 8 days from 9:00 to 17:00 + one day-a-night navigation with at least 20NM crossing.

Yachts: FAREAST 28R
HANSE 400 (12 meters)
Beneteau Oceanis 41 (12+ meters)
Beneteau Oceanis 38.2 (11 meters)

Course Outline:

• Responsibilities of a bareboat skipper
• Crew safety checks
• Hull and rig checks
• Machinery and systems checks
• Fuel and water capacity and range
• Menus and quantities ü Float plan
• Sources of meteorological information
• Weather patterns ü Sea and land breezes
• Cloud types and formations
• Pilotage and passage planning
• Considerations when planning a passage
• Routine for navigating a coastal passage
• Passage strategy
• Port regulations, customs, immigration
• Pilotage plans
• Vessel handling in confined quarters
• Mooring, anchoring, coming alongside
• Ropes, knots, care and use of lines
• General deck work
• Tides and currents theory
• Tidal heights, springs and neaps
• Rule of "twelfths"
• Position fixing, running fixes
• Plotting the effect of tides and currents
• Collision regulations
• Lights, shapes and sounds
• Application of the regulations
• Advanced dingy handling