Offshore skipper training

Upgrade your qualification to Yachtmaster coastal or offshore.

Offshore skipper

• Advanced qualification requires initial: skills, knowledge and experience.
• ‍Minimum age required: 18 years.
• 800 miles as a captain or active crew member. 2 years of yachting experience.
• Gives the ability to operate yachts up to 24 meters at any time of day in moderate weather. With a distance of 80 miles from shore.
• ISSA certificate is issued
• Training takes place on the yacht.

The amount of knowledge and skills required

• Yacht handling under Power
• Yacht handling under sails
• Dead Reckoning Navigation
• Fixing lines
• Magnetic compass
• Tides
  Tidal currents
• Buoys and Beacons
• Lights
• Pilotage
• Echo sounders
• Satellite systems
• Logs (measurement of speed and distance)
• Logbook
• Meteorology
• Anchoring
• Collision Regulations
• Safety at sea
• International Signalling Code
• Navigating in restricted visibility
• Passage planning
• Environment protection

Price: 1200 euros

Separately paid: log transit, moorings in marinas, final cleaning, meals on the yacht, fuel. Approximately 150 – 250 euros per week.

Separately paid for the registration and forwarding of the certificate. – 200 euros.

Passage:

Three countries: Spain – Gibraltar – Morocco. Two continents: Europe, Africa. The Alboran Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Route: Sotogrande (Spain) – Gibraltar (UK) – Ceuta (Spanish territory on the African continent) – Tanger (Morocco) (or Tetouan) – Barbate (Spain) – Marbella (Spain) – Estepona (Spain)

Trainer:

Alexey Trofimov

• Yachting experience since 1986
• Qualification: Master of Yacht 200 tonn Unlimited, Yachtmaster instructor.
• Passed regions: USA, Canada, Australia, Madagascar, Seychelles, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, Brazil, Caribbean, French Polynesia, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea.
• Repeated crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
• Experience in preparing teams and yachts for transatlantic crossing.
• Experience in organizing regattas in different regions of our planet.
  More information on the site https://trofimovas.com/

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