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Adventure in Racing

Adventure Sailing & Racing

endorsements

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These endorsements are designed for the graduate

Bareboat Cruising Skipper program or people

with equivalent experience and designed to

expand your skills, as a refresh or confidence builder.

 

This course cover more advanced levels

of anchoring,  sail trim, use of a cruising chute,

heavy weather tactics,  cruise planning. 

 

Pre-requisites - None

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Swiftsure race Notice to crew

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Team work & skills

This course further develops basic docking skills, developing techniques for handling single engine sailboats in tight quarters as well as methods of securing sailboats to docks in a variety of conditions.

 

Anchoring skills

In this skills training session we will show you how to select a safe anchorage, taking into account the wind and currents and allowing for tide changes whilst at anchor, included is the allowance for short term, storm and over-night conditions.In this skills training session we will show you how to select a safely grab the mooring ball, taking into account the wind and currents, included is the allowance for short term, storm and over-night conditions and sailing off the mooring ball.

 

SPINNAKER skills

Let us build your confidence in flying an asymetrical spinnaker

also known as a gennaker or cruising spinnaker.

Topics covered is hoisting, launching, trimming, gybing and dousing.

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Code Zero sails 

There’s nothing like a well-built Code 0 for getting a boat moving

again in light air on a close reach.

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SPINNAKER options

Learn from the professionals about ASYMETRICAL SPINNAKERS by Quantum sails

 

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See our schedule for announced dates for some of these endorsements, you should however expect to do private tuition to suit your schedule. You select a yacht and let us do the rest. We will send you and your crew the course material . We will pick a qualified instructor for your group. Your private instructor will contact you to identify your goals and start planning your itinerary!

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Advantages : Choice: You choose the dates that work the best for you and mostly sailors choose a day before the charter starts.

  • Yachts: You choose the size, type and comforts of your yacht, the charter requires a booking of 5 days and is coupled to ASA 104

  • Privacy: Your very own private Instruction for just your group, no other students

  • Destination: Your itinerary is decided by you and your group!

  • Flexibility: You can go for as long as you would like

  • Early boarding: Board at 10:00 hr on your first day

  • Easy provisioning: We can shop for you, $30 per person per day or our local Thrifty Foods can deliver straight to your boat using their online ordering service: www.thriftyfoods.com.

  • No Restrictions: You can complie an itenary and routing of your group choice 

  • Additional Costs:     Course Material: $40 per manual

  • Moorage: Averages $1.25 per foot at Marinas only

  • Fuel: Minimal - the more you sail, the less fuel you use!

  • Instructor/ Skippers: $390 per day on one of our monohulls and $410 per day on our catamarans

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IPC-International Proficiency Certificate

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ASA is offering the International Proficiency Certificate (IPC) for sailors associated with ASA.  The certificate is mandatory when chartering in most European / Mediterranean waters.  It serves as proof of bareboat charter competency for Mediterranean chartering companies, many of whom require the proficiency information displayed in a different format than the ASA Log Book. 

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Is it required? ASA strongly recommends you apply for an IPC if you are chartering in the Mediterranean as well as the inland waterways of Europe and northern Europe.

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Who can get on: Only sailors who have been certified through ASA 104, Bareboat Cruising can get the IPC by completing the online application.  The IPC is valid for 5 years from date of issue.

 

The IPC is accepted in the following counties:  Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom & Turkey.

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