ISSA Inshore skipper individual course

Having received the ISSA Inshore Sailing Skipper certificate, you can independently charter a yacht and operate it in the waters of any country.

The candidate should be 16 years of age or over. 

Certificate Limitations:

• Command of a vessel up to a maximum length of 78 ft /24 meters
• In coastal waters up to 20 miles offshore
• sailing from shore in day and night

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
• 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
• 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