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International Yachtmaster Training sailing school courses have something for everyone, whether just starting out on yachting or already a capable captain looking for recognized certification. Single Courses

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.

Multiple Courses

We offer courses for those who wish to undergo full time intensive training to take them from 'Zero to Hero'. 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.

Sailing Ground

Our training area stretches from Pattaya down the 120 miles to the Ko Chang Archipelago consisting of 50 palm tree lined tropical islands. The climate is warm; the water is clean and clear, perfect conditions for learning how to sail.

Fleet

Gulf Charters offers students the opportunity of sailing on a wide range of yachts from 25ft sport racers to midsize cruising keelboats up to 52ft world cruising catamarans.

Sailing Ground

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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 and Ko Chang, an overnight voyage of some 130nm 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 the these deliveries to build sea miles and confidence with the benefit of having an experienced and professional captain on board.

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