The ICC (International Certificate of Competence) is the document that stops charter-desk conversations going wrong. More and more Mediterranean charter companies will not release a yacht without one. The IYT Flotilla Skipper route earns it during a holiday, which beats losing a week of annual leave to a training school.
How do you get the ICC through IYT?
Three parts, in order. First the online theory: around 30 hours across 25 modules in three parts, each with quizzes, taken at your own pace at home. Access to the course is free once you register as an IYT student; the final exam costs 140 US dollars. Then six days of practical sailing with us in Kefalonia. Finally the in-Greece assessment, 135 euros, where an instructor confirms you can actually do what the theory says.
What does the certificate cover?
The Flotilla Skipper award with the ICC, including the VHF radio module, valid for five years. You need to be 16 or over. In practice it certifies you to skipper within flotilla-style limits: coastal passages, daylight hours, moderate conditions, which is exactly how most people actually sail on holiday.
Doing the week well
Book a flotilla week and tell us you are going for the assessment. You will do the real jobs all week: passage planning over breakfast, helming the channel crossings, calling the stern-to mooring in Fiskardo while the taverna audience watches. The assessment at the end mostly confirms what the week already proved.
After the ICC
The obvious next step is a bareboat charter: same Ionian waters, no lead boat, your names on the paperwork. Five years of validity is plenty of holidays.
