Bareboat Skipper
Training
12 days
Flexible dates
Spain
Valencia
Training
12 days
Flexible dates
Spain
Valencia
The IYT International Bareboat Skipper course runs over 12 days.
Certification requirements include a VHF radio operator qualification, 200 nautical miles of sailing experience, and 10 days spent at sea.
Miles and days completed during training count toward this minimum.
An intensive 12-day program combining theory and hands-on training, designed for complete beginners.
The recommended minimum age for this course is 16.
Course program:
- Skipper’s responsibilities, crew safety, provisioning
- Hull and equipment checks, engine and systems, passage plan
- Fuel and water capacity and autonomy
- Sources of meteorological information, weather phenomena, breezes, cloud types and formations
- Course plotting and passage planning, factor analysis, passage strategy, navigation plan
- Standard coastal procedures, position fixing, tracking and logging the route
- Port regulations, customs and immigration formalities
- Lines (ropes), knots, use of halyards, deck work
- Boat handling in confined spaces, picking up a mooring, anchoring and weighing anchor, berthing
- Tides and currents, tidal height, the rule of twelfths, charting tidal and current effects
- Collision regulations (rules of the road), lights, marks and sound signals, applying the rules in practice
- Effective use of the dinghy
Restrictions:
- Vessels up to a maximum length of 78 ft / 24 meters
- In coastal areas up to 20 miles from shore
- In fair weather with moderate wind and sea state
- This qualification level is generally the minimum required to charter yachts in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean
Experienced captain
Languages
English
Hebrew
Russian
Spanish
About me
Our school is accredited by International Yacht Training to provide training and issue internationally recognized certificates to operate motor and sailing vessels, from the very basics to the highest level — from International Crew to Yachtmaster Ocean.
These certificates are accepted as proof of your maritime qualifications in any country worldwide by charter and insurance companies. Our school is recognized as meeting the highest IYT training standards and is accredited by the MCA.
Training with us allows you to obtain, together with your new qualification certificate and without any additional exams, the International Certificate of Competence — the European “license” to operate a yacht.
Training
7 days
Spain, Valencia
for place in cabin
27 December – 1 November
Training
12 days
Spain, Valencia
for place in cabin
27 December – 1 November
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3 days
Spain, Valencia
for place in cabin
27 December – 1 November