INTERNATIONAL BAREBOAT SKIPPER
This is a 5 days/4 nights course which is not for beginners and the recommended requirements are an International Crew certificate, a VHF radio operator certificate, and to have logged over 200 nautical miles and 10 days at sea before being certified at this level. You must also be at least 18 years old and physically fit.
This course provides level of competence that someone needs to act as skipper on a sailing yacht of approximately 30 to 78 feet during a multi-day cruise upon inland or coastal waters in moderate to heavy winds (up to 30 knots) and sea conditions. This certificate gives also access to the British MCA International Certificate of Competency (ICC),
Price: 1450 euros per person, please see details on our price page.
Program
- 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
- Float plan
- Sources of meteorological information
- Weather patterns
- 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
- 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