Which course? Sea Survival v. ISAF offshore safety

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Is it necessary to do both of these courses or would you recommend having sea survival course alone is sufficient?

Our plan is to sail from UK to Canaries and then across the Atlantic with the ARC, potter around in the Caribbean and then perhaps go through Panama Canal and across Pacific to Oz.

Very happy to do the ISAF course if you experienced people think it necessary.

Thoughts please!

Thanks.
 
Plan to do the ISAF offshore safety course myself - doing Fastnet this year.

It covers more stuff, like jury rigging, emergency rudders, heavy weather etc. It includes the RYA survival syllabus, so no need to do both.

Edited to add - plan to do it with Bob Beggs, who:

Having been upside down, lost two rigs, lost two rudders, spent eight hours
overnight in a liferaft, and thirteen Trans-Atlantics I have the knowledge
to teach this course better than most.
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He was the winning skipper on Bristol in the 2000 clipper RTW.

PM me if you'd be interested in joining the course as we need to make up the numbers.
 
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>Having been upside down, lost two rigs, lost two rudders, spent eight hours
overnight in a liferaft, and thirteen Trans-Atlantics I have the knowledge
to teach this course better than most.

Do a course with him but for heavens sake don't go sailing with him ;-)
 
ISAF

the isaf is a 3 day course which includes
1 day sea survival
1 day first aid
and 1 day heavy weather and emergency repair

the sea survival is just the 1 day as above
 
You should know your boat back to front and inside out, so repairs can be made by yourself, you should know how to use your DSC radio and all your flares etc, a first aid certificate basic or otherwise you'd have. How your life raft works and opens would be good ( just remember you step up into the raft not down into it).

Buy a couple of books to read on safety at sea or life on a raft, these are many and this way you will have more money for your trip.

So my answere is none, unless you want to work off shore..
 
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