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ISSA Master of Yachts Student Textbook
The ISSA Master of Yachts is a course aimed at candidates who have completed the ISSA Offshore Skipper Course and have gained years of sailing experience(2800NM). The aim of the course is to increase the candidates’ nautical knowledge to competently take on the duties of a YMO on board a yacht – in daylight hours, at night, in busy sea lanes, or over 150NM offshore.
The ISSA Master of Yachts Student Handbook has been put together to ensure prospective students have access to a text with good illustrations, that concisely and accurately represents the knowledge and skills required to participate in this very high level qualification. This comprehensive, high level, shore based and sea based course, includes assessment papers and written examinations.
Candidates are advised that a considerable amount of private study and varied cruising experience is required in addition to the formal instruction provided. We strongly advise you to sign up at least 3 months in advance so we can send you our course notes handbook, for revision purposes. (In two weeks it is impossible to cover everything that a MOY should know, understand and be capable of practising). The handbook we provide condenses much of the knowledge required for a YMO aspirant student. MOY’s have a good understanding of sailing / boat handling, nautical terminology and safety at sea. This is a course for recreational and aspiring commercial skippers. Check out the syllabus and some of the downloads for YMO on this link.
ISSA Boat Master Course Student Textbook
The ISSA Boat Master Course is for candidates that have crewed on a small boat but have a very elementary understanding of boats. The course covers safety, operational checklists, seamanship topics, IRPCS and launching and recovering small power or sailing yachts.
ISSA Yacht Crew Student Textbook
The ISSA Yacht Crew course takes 4/5 days to complete. Its a 90% practical course aimed at beginners to sailing. The Yacht Crew course is designed to be a fun course which stimulates people to learn how to sail on a variety of vessels. The course ensures that you can sail on all points, by course end and be an active competent crew on a yacht. The syllabus is outlined on our main yacht training website. Check out the handbook syllabus for Yacht Crew. Assessment is by constant assessment, a practical and hopefully not too demanding process.
Our aim is to ensure we train you to sail and to be compliant and aware of the IRPCS, able to interpret Weather forecast Apps, Trim sails on all points of sail and a host of other skills. The good yacht crew is someone who can listen and be an active engaged member of the crew. Teamwork and communication go hand in hand. By course end you will be familiar with your skippers communications to crew. “Stand by to gybe, bare away, head up, luff up, ready to tack, heave to” etc. Our aim is also to get you really engaged with the sport of sailing and want to do more.
The Yacht Crew Handbook is carefully illustrated so a beginner to sailing can easily appreciate the various chapters that cover the syllabus. Safety being our priority is covered in terms of personal safety, crew safety and boat safety. The sailing skills are again carefully illustrated as are all the other chapters. This is a Millenial Style” book rather than a ‘Sixties style’ textbook that some other systems used. We want you to access the knowledge easily and not be falling asleep at page 7. The illustrator conveys whats important in each chapter and this is reinforced by succinct notes and explanations.
topics covered include the following:
- Safety
- Parts of a boat
- Handling a boat under sail
- Berthing Basics
- Handling a yacht under Power
- Tides
- IALA Buoyage
- Collision Regulations
- Meteorology
- Environmentally Responsible Sailing
- Knots and Sails
ISSA Keelboat Skipper Student Textbook
The Keelboat Crew Course has been designed for people who want to sail a boat thats not a sailing dinghy and wet, nor is it a yacht and pretty ponderous and expensive. Keelboats are lively, agile, fun to sail and ideal in light winds because they are so light. The two day ISSA Keelboat Crew Course was designed by Sail in Asia so that we could teach people in a two day program what usually takes 3 or 4 days on a yacht.
Our expertise in yacht training stretches back nearly 35 years and in that time we have learned a few things. Our Keelboat Crew course handbook is widely acclaimed and is the basis for teaching this course. Have a look at our Keelboat Crew Content page and you will see how comprehensive it is but also how easy it is to access every subject.
ISSA Keelboat Crew Student Textbook
The Keelboat Crew Handbook is the starter course for absolute beginners and the content is aimed at novice sailors. Safety is our primary concern and is carefully covered in this handbook. The syllabus covers the following topics in carefully illustrated and concisely written notes making the series of three books very useful for the modern keelboat sailor. The handbook covers the following subjects for aspiring Keelboat Crew;
- Safety
- Parts of a boat
- Boat handling under sail and power
- Berthing basics
- Tides and currents
- Simple weather
- IALA buoyage
- Sail trim
- Outboard engines
- Folding sails
- Basic knots
- Environmental considerations
The course is 90% practical and is assessed on water. This is a fun course and the handbook is designed with this in mind.
ISSA Keelboat Navigator Student Textbook
The ISSA Keelboat Navigator Handbook supports the Keelboat Navigator Course. Its a two day course for Keelboat Sailors that have spent at least 6 months sailing these vessels. The course covers the following topics;
- Safety
- Tides
- Navigation
- Iala Buoyage
- Electronics
- Environment
- Anchoring
- Collision Regulations
- Simple Electronics and Chart Plotters
ISSA Offshore Skipper Student Textbook
Check out our useful handbook and decide if this is worth purchasing? We believe that it is a really useful aid to learning that will be of value to aspiring Offshore Skippers. The ISSA Offshore Skipper Handbook covers the following topics in some detail:
- Safety
- IALA Buoyage
- IRPCS
- MOB
- Handling Yacht Under Sail and Power
- Navigation
- Tides
- Secondary Ports
- Position Fixing
- Passage Planning
- VHF radio
- Electronics
- Meteorology
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