ISSA’s Premier Yacht Instructor Training School in Asia

Yacht Training in Asia is Sail in Asia’s professional site for promoting ISSA courses for Instructors, trainee instructors and Internships.  This site is designed to support new ISSA SCHOOLS and aspiring YACHT AND DINGHY INSTRUCTORS. This is the professional website for  International Sailing Schools Association (ISSA) to produce their ISSA intellectual property –

New Instructors will be able to use the  following Instructor Training Materials for their personal qualification training courses and for lecturing to students when being trained and when they work in a school using, ISSA materials.

SIA are available for advisory work and can help prospective, new ISSA SCHOOLS set up professionally (eg.with  Risk Assessments and QMS). We are the only Instructor Training Centre for all levels of ISSA Instructor Certification in Asia.

New ISSA Schools can purchase these ISSA / SIA materials which ensure all students follow the same curriculum.  This means every student on such courses is schooled and managed using these new teaching materials.  These are available on this website and will also be available for purchase on ISSA website too.  Check out our shop!

  • ISSA instructor presentations
  • ISSA topic exercises
  • ISSA knowledge reviews
  • ISSA assessment and training materials for students and Instructors
  • ISSA Certification

 

Sail in Asia’s Fleet of Yachts

Learn to Sail in Thailand using this interesting and diverse fleet. Sail in Asia’s Yacht Training School has more than 12 vessels available to students to enjoy and train on. The yachts are used for regattas, international schools outdoor education and for corporate events. The yacht training fleet is the largest fleet of yachts of any school, in Asia. The fleet includes 7 Platus, a Corsair Trimaran, two Farr 1104s and a J35 One Design cruiser racer. The boats are conveniently anchored a hundred meters off our tropical beach location. We can offer you a huge range of courses and you can benefit by sailing a wide range of yachts. This helps you become a better sailor, more quickly. The Sail in Asia Sailing Club is open to all the students that pass through our courses. Members have full access to our yachts throughout the year.

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Professional Training for your future career

The Yacht Training in Asia Website is our professional yachting website aimed at people who want  professional courses so they can enter the marine business. Yacht Training in Asia is Sail in Asia’s professional site for promoting ISSA courses for Instructors, trainee instructors and internships and get jobs such as Sailing or Motor Yacht Instructors, work on a super yacht ,or become an outdoor education instructor and run flotilla adventure expeditions. Sail in Asia’s professional training is second to none in Asia.

Set up a Sea School with the help of Sail in Asia. Mike Downard is responsible for setting up Asia’s only Instructor Training School.  Sail in Asia has been responsible for five ISSA SCHOOLS being formed and supported over the last five years.  Let SIA help you to develop your marine career and maybe your sea school.

IYT Yacht Training School Asia - Professional Courses

Do you want to open an ISSA Sea School in Asia?

If you want to open your own ISSA Sea School in Asia but lack instructors or the Intellectual Property required to do so – then contact us because we have the solution for you!  SIA are the only ISSA Training Centre in Asia offering the training for instructors and the necessary IP for new schools.  Check out this link, Career in Yacht Training if  you want to know more?

Some of the yachts in our Fleet

ISSA Instructor Training Facility

Our ISSA instructor training internship has been running now for almost twenty two years and has been a huge success. Our ex-students are now running training bases, working on Superyachts all over the world, running marinas and huge charter fleet operations and of course filling positions at Sail in Asia.

Yon Bay – SIA’s Phuket Water Sport Centre and our Water Sports Activities

What makes us different to other schools?

  • SIA are certified by ISSA a European Sail Training Certification and offers great European Certification. Consequently the course materials are available in several languages. Check out our Training Handbooks
  • Our Zero to Hero Course enables you to rent / charter yachts in Europe and in Asia.
  • Sail in Asia Yacht Training School has 11 yachts available for training – Sports boats, cruiser racers, racing yacts, multihull, RIB’s and and Blue Water Ocean going yachts.
  • We offer Professional and Recreational training Courses.
  • We are the only Yacht Training School in Asia that runs Instructor Training and Internships.
  • SIA constantly update our training methods and materials to ensure our courses are state-of-the-art as well as fun.
  • Our chief instructor has over 35 years sail training experience with RYA, IYT and ISSA trainer qualifications. He is also a UK qualified Outdoor Education Teacher Trainer and encourages high standards, in an enjoyable situation.
  • We are the only yacht training company in Asia able to open New ISSA Sea Schools – Our Consultation and Advisory Service is backed by ISSA Europe.

ISSA Offshore Skipper

If you have completed your ISSA Inshore Skipper or RYA Day Coastal Skipper and have 800 miles of experience then you are ready to become an ISSA Offshore Skipper.

This is a 10 day course of theory and practical training and enables you to do night sailing and make longer distance passages, day and night.

ISSA Offshore – Advanced Skippers

Master of Yachts

Master of Yachts aspiring skippers should have another 2000 nm of experience in addition to the 800 NM for entry to the ISSA Offshore Skipper. Our ISSA MOY is a 10 day course for students who have the requisite experience and skills and who have already completed an ISSA Offshore Skipper. We always ask you to do a one day assessment day with us before we accept you on a MOY course.

It’s a tough course so we highly recommend you do a MOY Assessment before you enroll and  pay for the full course.  Offshore Skipper is essentially the same syllabus for the Master of Yachts Certification but the examiner expects you to be a very proficient manager, sailor, navigator and to some extent, teacher.

Students on this course may be also doing ISSA Offshore Skipper and it’s important that the prospective MOY’s are interacting positively with them and bringing out the best in them, too.

What makes us different to other schools?

  • Our chief instructor has over 40 years sail training experience with RYA, IYT and ISSA trainer qualifications. He is an ISSA Offshore Skipper and MOY trainer. He will happily advise you on what course you might like to take and encourages high standards, in an enjoyable situation.
  • We are the only yacht training company in Asia able to open New ISSA Sea Schools – Our Consultation and Advisory Service is backed by ISSA Europe.
  • SIA are certified by ISSA a European Sail Training Certification and offers great European Certification. Consequently the course materials are available in several languages.
  • We are the only Yacht Training School in Asia that runs Instructor Training and Internships.
  • We offer 3 levels of professional Instructor Training, Yacht Crew Instructor, Inshore Skipper Instructor and Advanced Instructor.
  • Our instructors are not only well trained and  experienced, but are also great fun – they’ll make any course enjoyable, as well as educational.
  • Our Zero to Hero Course are ICC compliant and enables you to rent yachts in Europe and in Asia.
  • Our Yacht Training School has 11 yachts available for training – Monohulls and Multihulls
  • SIA offer Professional and Recreational training Courses.
  • SIA constantly update our training methods and materials to ensure our courses are state-of-the-art as well as fun.
  • We teach theory and practical together on all  our courses. We believe that mixing theory and practice in the same course achieves a better outcome for you.

Yon Bay – SIA’s Phuket Water Sport Centre and our Water Sports Activities