Do I need certification if I charter bareboat?

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Do I need certification if I charter bareboat?
How long is a piece of a string? What we mean by this is, it depends on the country you will be sailing in, it differs everywhere, therefore get in contact with us for a better answer! Generally speaking the accepted license is the ICC (International Certificate of Competence). You will definitely need an RYA day skipper license or an ICC license in most parts of the Med, sometimes and this is RARE an ASA 104 or a yacht club membership card will be enough, however, regulations are being enforced and it is rare that these last two will be accepted. Do you really want to leave your precious holiday hinge on the grace of a bureaucratic official?
We know for sure that an ICC or an RYA Day Skipper qualification will all be sufficient, but you must take your qualifications documents with you. To gain the ICC is now a fairly simple process, and we recommend the NauticEd process. NauticEd is a dynamic online course bundle coupled with an accredited school for the practical tests that is highly respected and also accepted globally.
You can do it in one of two ways. The first is a simple assessment of your theory knowledge using the NauticEd Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of online courses and then verification of your sailing competence by an RYA qualified instructor. The assessment takes one day. It is a pass/fail assessment whereby no instruction is given.
The second is that you gain the RYA Day Skipper Certificate, which automatically qualifies you for the ICC. Please note that you cannot do this process with the ASA because the USA has not signed Resolution 40 and thus ASA is NOT authorized in any way to issue any government Sailing or Boating License. Their IPC is not sanctioned or recognized by United Nations. Take heart my fellow Americans, there are a few RYA channels in the USA you can use, and we can help you find them.
Gain the ICC by either of:
(1) Doing the one-day on-the-water assessment with NauticEd Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of online courses or the RYA Day Skipper online course.
OR
(2) Gain the RYA Day Skipper Certificate via the RYA Day Skipper online course and the 5 day on-the-water training at an RYA training centre. This automatically qualifies you for the ICC.
In the Caribbean and what we call the Exotics, life is far easier, you will be able to take the boat if you can show experience and competence on your sailing resume. Do not leave it to chance however - we will review all of your documentation and qualifications prior to the charter to make sure you can get the boat!

[@mrunning10]

the answer to this titled question is "how does one get skippering experience?"

[@joshw7129]

Will ASA 104 in the BVI work?

[@davidcouture1241]

if i posses a ASA 101,103, 104, 114 is good enought? Will i need something more...

[@ProteusYachtCharters]

If you charter in the Med you will need ICC to be safe, or you could go to NauticEd and get their internationally accepted accreditation. ASA 101 to 104 isn’t consistently enough - why risk gambling.?

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

Not enough. ASA just means you took some classes of questionable quality and you still have ZERO actual experience. You need to build a chartering resume. You do that by taking ASA 101 and start chartering small day boats and work your way up to larger boats.

[@DenisShch93]

@@ProteusYachtCharters ASA 101, ASA 103 and ASA 104 gives you IPC which is essentially the same as ICC.

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

@@DenisShch93 No, it does not. ASA courses mean nothing.

[@toadamine]

You don't NEED any of those, if you know how to sail... They'll ask you to submit a resume of your sailing experience, then send you out with one of their skippers for a couple hours when you take delivery of the craft, to make sure you are competent. As long as you didn't lie about your competencey, you're golden.

[@ProteusYachtCharters]

toadamine that is not always the case, and is certainly not the case in the Med!

[@NGC1433]

EU does not work like that. Here you need a licence to ride a bicycle on the road. To be able to sail offshore you will need a serious training, pass a bunch of theoretical and practical exams and sail 500nm before you can apply for an off shore skipper licence.

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

@@ProteusYachtCharters Who gives a crap what they do in the Med.

[@justsmy5677]

This sounds like more government red tape and indirect taxation.
No discussion concerning sailing should ever require uttering the phrase “United Nations”.
Sailors by definition sail/travel the world...the entire World.
This is like have a designated place in the swimming pool where pissing is allowed.

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

This dude is from Europe. They love to bend over for the government and need big nanny Government to tell them what to do.

[@jonmccauley6490]

I agree. This is all Nanny State propaganda. If you lend your boat out to someone, you should ask for on the spot experience and competency, not a stupid sheet of paper from the daddy gubment.