The Coastal Navigator sailing course is designed for advanced sailors looking to enhance their skills. The course accommodates 4 to 5 participants, who will spend each night aboard the boat at a different island. The daily sailing distance is approximately 30 nautical miles (NM).
Course content: Sailing between islands, understanding navigation charts and aids, signs and abbreviations, anchoring techniques, side and Mediterranean mooring, collision avoidance at sea, proper use of lights, knots, weather forecasting, nautical publications, protractor usage, and concepts of variation and deviation. Night passages will be organised according to the initial planning and are not described in the dynamic daily schedule below.
Information
- Pre-course experience: ISPA Day Skipper, Ultra Navigation Course or similar
- Participants are required to bring their ISPA Logbook to the course
- Participants need to have swimming ability and appropriate fitness condition for the practice of sailing
- Possible changes to the program due to weather conditions
- We recommend using sunscreen and white tee-shirt during summer, hat, non slippery sailing shoes or sneakers, warm sport clothes for winter.
- Licence and Ability after the course ISPA Coastal Navigator certificate. This licence is approved by the Ministry of the Sea in Croatia-MMPI at the same level as the ISPA Day skipper
- This certificate is the pre-requisite for Coastal Skipper course. The Coastal Skipper certificate is requested in some charter destinations in more challenging areas for weekly rentals.
- Sailing instructor and sailboat
- ISPA Online theory course voucher /or/ ISPA Workbook
- waterproof suits loan
- Accommodation in shared cabin
- Mooring in ACI Split
- Fuel
- 25% VAT
- Tourist tax
- Food and beverage (including for the instructor)
- Moorings/berths in marinas and ports
- Transfer to/from ACI Marina Split
Schedule
- Meeting in ACI Marina Split.
- Check-in, general info about the course
- Provisioning (buying all the groceries needed for your 5 day embarked course)
- 09:00 meeting with instructor and crew, navigation planning
- vessel equipment
- 11:00 setting sails (lunch on the water)
- 12:30 identifying 20 different chart symbols
- 13:00 list of Light, Buoys and Fog signals
- 16:00 nautical publications
- 17:00 berthing, tiding up the boat
- 18:00 individual briefing
- 19:00 dinner
- 08:00 breakfast
- 19:00 sailing directions
- 11:00 douglas type protractor
- 12:00 setting sails (lunch on the water)
- 13:00 deviation
- 14:00 variation
- 17:00 berthing, tiding up the boat
- 18:00 individual briefing
- 19:00 dinner
- 08:00 breakfast
- 09:00 plotting a fix using 2 or 3 lines of position – plotting a fix using transit and bearing
- 11:00 setting sails (lunch on the water)
- 13:00 accurate dead reckoning
- 14:00 speed and distance formulae, ETA
- 15:00 accurate plotting of an electronic fix using GPS latitude and longitude
checking the GPS position - 17:00 berthing, tiding up the boat
- 18:00 individual briefing
- 19:00 dinner
- 08:00 breakfast
- 09:00 large to small scale chart changes, knowledge of lateral and cardinal marks and buoys
- 10:00 passage plan
- 11:00 setting sails (lunch on the water)
- 13:00 running fix
- 17:00 berthing, tiding up the boat
- 18:00 individual briefing
- 19:00 dinner
- 08:00 breakfast
- 09:00 sailing examination
- 11:00 navigation examination
- 14:00 berthing and unberthing examination
- 15:00 berthing tiding up the boat
- 16:00 individual
- feedback certificates and diplomas
Availability
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| Course | Term | Price (Per person) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISPA Coastal Navigator 6 days |
From 10.05.2025. until 15.05.2025. |
1,190.00€ |
Finished |
| ISPA Coastal Navigator 6 days |
From 19.11.2025. until 24.11.2025. |
1,090.00€ |
Last spots |