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  • What is Yacht Crew?
  • How the week is set
  • Training week and ISSA certificate
  • Mindhelm on this week
  • Cost
  • Practice on the water
  • What to bring
  • After this week
  • What this week does not promise
  • How to apply
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Yacht Crew - Mindhelm

The difference is Mindhelm, not the price. Right now only Vadim Nareyko leads it.

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This week is for beginners: no time on a yacht is required. If you have not been on deck yet, start here.

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Yacht Crew - Mindhelm

Looking for something else?

If you need the same step without Mindhelm, open Yacht Crew without Mindhelm.

If you are already ready to skipper near shore, open Inshore Skipper.

What is Yacht Crew?

Yacht Crew for us is a beginner crew training week: sheets, lookout, helm under instruction. The ISSA certificate is issued separately - only after the instructor’s decision.

You execute; you do not lead yet

Yacht Crew

  • Crew tasks under the instructor’s guidance
  • Crew step, not coastal skipper

Inshore Skipper

  • Plan, orders and watch are your responsibility
  • You need Yacht Crew or equivalent experience and time on board

Inshore Skipper or Yacht Crew.

How the week is set

Training-week format

  • Seven days and six nights

    Saturday evening to Saturday morning.

  • Up to four participants

    Training-group limit.

  • Accommodation on the yacht

    The main format. Your own lodging is also possible.

Why that group limit

So each of you gets enough practice on the water. In a large group a beginner often queues and barely practises working in a crew.

Training week and ISSA certificate

FairHelm week and ISSA certificate

FairHelm training week

  • Practice in a FairHelm training group
  • Tuition in the school’s range

ISSA certificate

  • Association procedure and requirements
  • Separate fee; guide EUR 55
  • Only after the instructor’s decision

Tuition for the training week pays for instruction. Papers are issued separately.

What tuition covers and what it does not

Included

  • Instructor
  • School instruction
  • Accommodation on the yacht, or your own lodging

Not included

  • School certificate and ISSA certificate - separate, only after the instructor’s decision
  • Certificate delivery is not included
  • Travel, food, transfer, tickets
  • Your own medicines and insurance

Mindhelm on this week

What Mindhelm is on this week

The programme is combined with physical, mental and wellness practices. It is not a medical programme. The aim is to develop and restore participants’ cognitive skills. Alcohol is fully banned, including ashore. Mobile-phone use is limited. There is no separate price for Mindhelm: it runs with the Yacht Crew training week.

This card

  • Yacht Crew together with Mindhelm
  • Programme with the Mindhelm block

Week without Mindhelm

  • The same Yacht Crew step
  • Room for rest and for training

Mindhelm.

Yacht Crew without Mindhelm.

How the Mindhelm author leads this week

Vadim Nareyko is the author of the Mindhelm method. On this week he sets crew tasks, watches, and corrects. He does not take the helm for you for the whole week: you learn to execute yourselves.

Cost

Tuition for the training week per person

1,000-1,500 euros per person for the training week - not a fee for one place in the group and not a country price list.

Practice on the water

What you practise on the water

  • Sheets

    You work sheets and halyards.

  • Lookout

    You keep lookout and clearly pass on what you see.

  • Helm

    You stand at the helm in a training setting.

  • Life on board

    Roles, order and shared work on the yacht.

Crew role rotation

Crew roles rotate in turn so everyone tries different tasks. This is not skipper rotation: you do not yet take the passage plan or give crew orders on this week.

A usual day’s cycle

  • Morning

    A short brief: weather, plan, roles.

  • Under way

    Crew roles practised in turn.

  • Evening

    Life on board, a short debrief, recovery.

Week schema

  • Saturday evening

    Arrival and roles.

  • Days 1-6

    Practice on the water and life on board.

  • Saturday morning

    Back to port.

This is the training-week schema, not a booking for a specific date.

What to bring

What to bring

  • Shoes without a black sole that marks the deck.
  • Clothing layers for the waters of the intake.
  • Your own medicines and papers. Sports insurance for the teaching days is not sold here.

After this week

Where to look next

The next coastal-command step usually starts with Inshore Skipper. The order of school steps sits on the ISSA map.

Inshore Skipper - ISSA progression map - what’s next after Yacht Crew

What this week does not promise

Three limits

  • This is not the mooring week and not a week of sails practice only.
  • Other schools sometimes write that the ISSA certificate opens yacht charter worldwide. That is their advertising, not a FairHelm promise.
  • The ISSA certificate does not replace national licences if a flag state requires them separately.

How to apply

Apply and schedule

See current dates in the schedule, or ask us by letter.

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