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ISSA Inshore Skipper Textbook
The ISSA Inshore Skipper textbook is designed for up-skilling a person who has completed an ISSA Yacht Crew course and wants to become an inshore skipper. Trainee skippers must have a good understanding of sailing/boat handling, nautical terminology and safety at sea. This handbook goes a long way to providing you with most of the knowledge required to become a proficient skipper.
This is one of ISSA’s most popular courses as it trains you to become a competent skipper. The course covers a huge range of marine topics both practically and theoretically. The result is you become a safe and knowledgeable skipper able to participate in yachting activities and even renting yachts for summer holidays.
The aim of the ISSA Inshore Skipper Textbook is to increase the candidates’ nautical knowledge to competently take on the duties of an Inshore Skipper on board a yacht – in daylight hours in sight of land It is recommended that course duration is 10 days including VHF Radio Training. Yacht Training in Asia is a truly wonderful activity if you are well prepared and trained, our courses seek to make your training a perfect holiday too.
ISSA VHF Student Textbook
On this important Safety Course we teach students to use a vhf radio to transmit a Mayday, make Urgency Calls, act as a Mayday Relay and learn and understand radio protocol and the use of the radio procedure. We teach you about Search and Rescue protocol and your obligations and imperatives when responding to distress or urgency calls. We teach you to use a radio for everyday communication and for those situations where lives depend on your relay skills.
Students wishing to become RIB Skippers, ISSA Instructors, Inshore/Offshore Skippers or Yacht Masters, must have completed a VHF Radio course* and students wishing to participate in MOY 200 tons courses must also have this qualification.
ISSA RIB Skipper 1 Student Textbook
The ISSA RIB skipper courses are designed for small and large RIBs. The aim of our courses is primarily education and safety. To obtain a RIB Skipper certification one also needs to have a VHF Radio operators certification and ideally a CENI Test should be taken and passed. Sea users should enroll in the Boat Master Course as a progression from RIB Master as it teaches navigation and a range of other marine topics not covered in the one or two day RIB courses. Talk to SIA if you want further advice or information.
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 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 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 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.
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