island spirit sailing school
Why Choose IYT Worldwide
International Yacht Training, Inc. is the world's leading provider of yacht training services, offering IYT courses and certificates to students which are recognised by governments and charter companies around the globe.
International Yacht Training Inc.
- 104 partner schools across 34 countries
- MCA approved
- US Coastguard approved
- Controlled syllabus
- Registration with IYT HQ
IYT Recreational Courses
IYT has developed several sailing & yachting courses for private sailors who want to be competent crew members on somebody else’s boat or for those who want to be competent boat owner or responsible bareboat charter skippers.
IYT publishes a strict syllabus for each course it’s parenter sailing schools offer. It issues each student with an IYT Passport. This Passport is your of the certificates you’ve completed, sea miles logged and other data about your sea time.
Upon successful completion of one of our school courses, students receive an IYT certificate. Island Spirit Thailand registers the student’s information and certificates completed with IYT. IYT maintains a record of everyone’s certification level for later reference or verification by interested third parties, such as a bareboat charter company or another school when advancing to the next level.
IYT publishes a strict syllabus for the course which is modular in construction so that each module is a complete structured lesson plan that takes a day or half a day to complete. On the five day courses run by Island Spirit you will typically cover 5-6 modules.
IYT issues each student with an IYT Passport that records personal data – certifies the modules completed and logs the sea miles covered. At the end of the course successful students receive an IYT certificate and their details of dates and modules covered together with the certificate number are registered with IYT which maintains a graduate register of the data for possible reference by third parties at a later date.
Currently there are 50 partner IYT sailing schools offering the same IYT courses so it is possible to do crew in one country, watchkeeper in another and skipper in another and they will all follow the same course structure and syllabus with no gaps or overlaps.
