Sailing Ocean BareBoat Course

Choose from ASA or Sail Canada
ASA - Coastal passage making

This 7 day course, designed for the graduate of the Day Skipper program and marked Coastal Navigation program or people of equivalent experience, will expand your experience by navigating some of the stronger current passes. This course touches lightly on the basics as a review and continues on to more advanced levels of anchoring, sail trim, use of a cruising chute, heavy weather tactics, cruise planning, navigation and night passages. This level is commonly a prerequisite to bareboat chartering.
The ultimate bareboat charter sailing course. Build your skills and confidence on this challenging 7 day course. This learning adventure takes you from Deep Cove Marina, Sidney though the Juan De Fuca Strait to Barclay Sound and Ucluelet. This intensive course of instruction will challenge the abilities of the most experienced sailor and enhance those skills developed in previous levels. The development of a watch system for an extended night passage, MOB drills at night, performance sail trim, spinnaker handling, and the use of electronic aids to navigation are but a few skills which will be covered on this extended cruise which will take you to wherever the wind blows.

The holder is certified as the skipper and navigator, to be responsible for the safety of his/her sailing vessel and crew, while making offshore passages within 50 miles of the coastline, where navigational and weather hazards exist, in any conditions, at any time day or night. and covers the skills needed to be able to safely act as skipper and crew in a sailing cruiser on an offshore passage requiring celestial navigation.

Prerequisites: Day Skipper, Coastal navigation, VHF radio certificate; First Aid Certificate; and CPR certification. Completing the Advanced Navigation Standard is highly recommended.
A minimum of four participants is required for this course

Island Cruising is located in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. This program is designed for the skipper a sailing vessel within a 50NM range of the coast on extended coastal passages requiring night passages over a few days with strong navigation skills and weather window planning. Knowledge of long-term passage planning, vessel preparation, sail management,  first aid, watch-keeping, emergency procedures, abandon ship protocols, safety and seamanship. We offer passage making on the deliveries of our Catamarans and Mono-hulls.