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General requirements

• Experience required prior training: None
• Minimum age required: 16 years old  
• Equipment requirements: Cabin yachts with central board
• Suggested number of training hours: 14 hours theory + 17.5 hours practice
• Who can run the training: ISSA  Inland Sail Instructors
• Who can do the examination: ISSA Inland Sail Instructors
• How to submit the application: To authorised ISSA school only
• Qualifications obtained after the course:

       Skipper inland waters sailing yachts:      

1. up to 15 m long (with inboard outboard engine)      
2. day time
3. conditions up to 6 B degrees
4. on all inland waters and up to 2 mile from shore at sea waters 

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   Skills and knowledge required 

Boat's construction – 1h theory

1. Knows the basic terminology of a  boat:

•      Bow;
•      Stern, aft, etc;
•      Boom;
•      Mast;
•      Shackle;
•      Names of sails;
•      Basic parts, depending on the yacht in use.

1. Can fill up the water and fuel tanks.
2. Types of power boats, types of engine units.
3. Can operate the engine.

•  Start it;
•  Switch it off;
• Check operation of cooling system;
• Check oil level
• ​Check whether alternator is charging batteries when engine is working. 

1. Knows elementary equipment of yacht: 
2. Log;

• Steering system;
• Central board;
• Steering;
• ​Mast folding equipment. 

Line and spring handling - 1h theory + 1h practice

1. Can combine two lines of the same and different diameter;  
2. Can make:

•      Bowline;
•      Fast a line on a cleat;
•      Fishermen's bend;
•      Coil mooring lines; 

1. Can:

•      Pass, take, make fast on cleat, let go mooring lines;
•      Throw mooring lines;
•      Describe different ways of taking a mooring. 

Handling Finders – 30 min theory + 30min practice

1. Can:

•      Fix the fenders using adequate knots;
•      Effectively apply the manouvering fender;  

Operating the anchor – 1h theory + 2 hrs practice

1. Can:

•      Prepare the anchor for weighing;
•      Select safe location for staying at anchor;
•      Apply rules for safe anchoring (4xdepth, anchor alarm);
•      Distinguish different types of anchors and their characteristics. 

 Safety – 1.5 hrs theory

1. Can:
2. Perform the safety briefing:

•      How to move on deck;
•      How to apply personnal safety equipment (harness, jackstay, etc.);
•      Apply distress signalling equipment (pyrotechnics, flags, etc.);
•      Different methods to send distress signal;
•      Knows procedures to be applied in restricted visibility;
•      First Aid Kit (location and content). 

Handling boat under Power - 30 min theory + 4 hrs practice

1. Can:

•      Launch and recover a boat;
•      Manouver a boat under power;
•      Approach a MOB;
•      Take a berth/leave a berth (longside, stern-to, bow-to);
•      Weigh anchor. 

 Handling yacht under Sail – 30min theory + 10hrs practice

1. Can:

•      Manouver a yacht under sail  (tack,gybe);
•      Approach a MOB. 

CEVNI regulations – 1h theory

• Knows the signs applicable on inland waters;
• Knows the bouyage on inland waters;
• Knows the navigation shapes and lights:
• Knows the vessels' priority;
• Knows how to proceed in a „close encounter” situation;
• Is familiar and complies with the requirement for continues observation;
• Is familiar with other legal obligations of a skipper and crew;
• Is familiar with and understands after-collision rules.
• Local regulations.  

 Pilotage – 75min theory

1. Knows: ◦
2. Distinction of water routes (on rivers, on lakes etc);

•      Typical hydrographic constructions;
•      Charts, pilot books and descriptions of inland waterways.  

Meteorology – 75min theory

• Knows the Beaufort scale and its meaning for small craft;
• Knows sources of meteo information and how to use them;
• Has the basic knowledge about high, low pressure areas, fronts;  
• Can recognize cumulonimbus clouds;
• Understands meteo messages (including those broadcast by radio coastal stations)
• Can take meteo factors into consideration when planning a passage in a coastal zone:
• Has the habit not to leave harbour without valid weather forecast.
• Squals. 

Other – 1h theory

• Environmental friendly approach and respect to other yachtsmen and women;
• Knows and applies basic pro-environmental rules;  
• Knows and applies social friendly approach at sea and in harbor;
• Cabin yachts with central board.