Offshore Skipper
Experience required prior training: 28 days at sea as skipper or watch
leader in at least 2 voyages, at least in
two sea areas
Certification required prior training: VHF (SRC) and First Aid Certificate
Minimum age required: 18 years old
Suggested number of training hours: 40 hours
Examination: 6 hours, including 2 at darkeness
Maximum 3 candidates at a time
How to sibmit the application: To authorized ISSA school only
Scope of required knowledge and skills
Yacht handling under Power
- Unberthing/berthing (longside and stern-to)
- Approaching a mooring buoy
- Weighing an anchor
- Recovery of Man Over Board
- Practical skills
Yacht handling under sail
- Tacking
- Gybing
- Recovery of Man Over Board
- Practical skills
Dead Reckoning Navigation
- Definition of DR navigation
- Running of DR and plotting of DR position
- Practical skills
Fixing lines
- Sources of fixing lines (leading lights, bearings, depth contour)
- Error analysis/ accuracy assessment
- Practical skills
Magnetic compass
- Consideration of variation. Change of variation in time and place
- Siting of compass and reasons for deviation (impact of electronic devices)
- Consideration of deviation
- Stationary and handbearing compasses
- Determination of deviation
Tides
- Reasons of Tides – Springs and Neaps
- Tidal Tables
- Tidal levels and chart datum
- Time and height of tide in standard ports
- Secondary ports
- Anomalies
Tidal currents
- Tidal current atlases
- Tidal current diamonds
- Information about tidal currents in navigation publications
- Consideration of tidal currents when calculating courses and passage planning
- Overfalls, tidal races
Buoys and Beacons
- Navigation signs in IALA A and B
- Limitation of navigational marks as navigational aid
Lights
- Characteristics
- Range – visual and nominal
- List of lights
Pilotage
- Harbour specific regulations and signalling systems
- Planning and strategy to enter/leave a harbour
- Pracatical skills to make a pilotage
Echo sounders
- Operation of manual echosounder
- Types of echosounders
- Limitations of echosounders
- Secondary echoes
Satellite systems
Basic knowledge of satellite systems, their abilities and limitations
Logs (measurement of speed and distance)
Different types and operation
Logbook
- Logbook as an official document
- Running of a logbook
Meteorology
- Basic terms, Beaufort’s scale
- Air masses
- Types of clouds
- Characteristics of weather in specific pressure and front systems
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Ability to interpret weather forecasts/ charts, weatherfax
- Day/night breeze
- Fog
- Use of barometer
Anchoring
- Types of anchors and operation
- Selection of place to anchor
Collision Regulations
Good knowledge of International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
Safety at sea
- Personal safety, use of lifejackets, harnesses, jackstays
- Fire prevention and fighting
- Distress signals
- Role of coastguard
- Preparation to heavy weather
- Liferafts and recovery by helicopter
International Signalling Code
Rules of application
Navigating in restricted visibility
- Restricted visibility procedures
- Limitations for safe navigation
Passage planning
- Preparation of charts and notes to plan a passage
- Standard actions when navigating in inshore waters
- Strategy to plan a passage
- Use of weather information In passage planning
- Sources of local and national regulations
Environment protection
Responsibility for environment pollution and sea environment protection
Cena kursu - 700,00 zł/150 eur *
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Cena certyfikatu - 400,00 zł