This is a 10 days course. It is not for beginners and the recommended entry level requirements are a VHF Radio Operator certificate and to have logged over 200 nautical miles and 10 days at sea before advancing to this level. The minimum age to obtain this certification is 16.

CERTIFICATE LIMITATIONS:

- Command of a vessel up to a maximum length of 78 ft /24 metres;

- In coastal waters up to 20 miles offshore;

- In daylight hours and in fair conditions with moderate wind and sea conditions.

This certificate is the level of competence that one needs when chartering a boat in the Mediterranean or West Indies where there are restrictions in terms of cruising area and distance from the base and the vessel recommend to be safely moored in a marina or anchored before dark.

Course Outline:

- Responsibilities of a bareboat skipper

- Crew safety checks

- Hull and rig checks

- Machinery and systems checks

- Fuel and water capacity and range

- Menus and quantities

- Float plan

- Sources of meteorological information

- Weather patterns

- Sea and land breezes

- Cloud types and formations

- Pilotage and passage planning

- Considerations when planning a passage

- Routine for navigating a coastal passage

- Passage strategy

- Port regulations, customs, immigration

- Pilotage plans

- Vessel handling in confined quarters

- Mooring, anchoring, coming alongside

- Ropes, knots, care and use of lines

- General deck work

- Tides and currents theory

- Tidal heights, springs and neaps

- Rule of "twelfths"

- Position fixing, running fixes

- Plotting the effect of tides and currents

- Collision regulations

- Lights, shapes and sounds

- Application of the regulations

- Advanced dingy handling