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Gulf Charters Thailand International Yacht Training Inc Sailing Courses...

IYT sailing school courses have something for everyone, whether you are just starting out on yachting or already a capable captain looking for recognized certification IYT has a course to suit your needs.

Single Courses

IYT partner school Gulf Charters Thailand offers three IYT recreational sailing courses; Crew, Watchkeeper and Bareboat skipper certificates. In addition we offer our alumni a mile-builder program that gives ongoing access to build offshore cruising experience (see below for details).

These courses are designed to take a student with no knowledge of the sea and sailing through to being a captain of a charter boat or your own vessel. The five day courses are each stand alone with students generally gaining sea time between courses.

Crew Certificate...

Crew certificate course assumes you know nothing about sailing and aims to teach you what everything is called, where it is, how it works, when to use it and commands given to crew members In addition an understanding of how the designer takes care of stability and how the sails work. There is not so much navigation, planning, safety consideration etc. The aim is that you understand what the skipper is doing but not necessarily why he is doing it.

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Watchkeeper Certificate...

Watchkeeper is much more involved in planning the passage, briefing the crew, hazards you may encounter and how to deal with them, maritime law in risk of collision, light recognition, collision avoidance, heavy weather tactics, safe anchorage, first aid, etc. The aim is that you understand all that needs to be done before you depart, during the passage and berthing the boat at its destination.

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Bareboat Captain certificate...

The skipper course is more about seamanship skills and thinking the passage out. Lots about tides and currents unforeseen dangers and the considerations you have to take into account, navigation, fixes and plotting, handling in difficult conditions, weather forecasting and understanding met, passage planning - pilotage, more on collision avoidance, lights etc and application. The bare boat captain certification allows you to charter yachts all over the world and is recognized by all major yacht companies such as Sunsail and the Moorings.

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Mile builders, experience is everything

Gulf charters delivers its yachts regularly between its bases in Pattaya, Ko Chang, Samui and Cambodia. Non stop voyages of between 130 to 240 nautical miles of offshore sailing. In addition we take on international yacht deliveries in and around Asia and sometimes as far a field as Europe and America. Gulf charters offers its sailing school alumni the opportunity to participate in these deliveries to build sea miles and confidence with the benefit of having an experienced and professional captain on board.

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Multiple Courses...

Zero to Hero - 15% discount on single courses

We offer courses for those who wish to undergo full time intensive training for one month to take them from Zero to Bare Boat Captain. For this course we accept students with no knowledge of the sea or sailing and expect them to be certified competent captains by the end of the course and with 750 sea miles logged and some serious open sea experience.

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Zero to Watchkeeper - 10% discount on single courses

For those who wish to undergo training to acquire the knowledge to be a competent Watchkeeper whilst gaining further experience before taking the final step to becoming a bareboat Captain then we have full time three week course of intensive training to Watchkeeper standard. We accept students with no knowledge of the sea or sailing and expect them to be certified competent Watchkeepers by the end of the course and with 500 sea miles logged.

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Zero to Crew with mile builder — 10% discount on single courses

For those who wish to undergo training to acquire the knowledge to be a competent Crew member and put that training into practice on a serious offshore cruise we offer a full time ten day course of intensive training to Crew standard coupled with a mile builder 4 day cruise. We accept students with no knowledge of the sea or sailing and expect them to be certified competent Crew by the end of the course and with 250 sea miles logged.

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