Offers of Sailing Mexico

2. Nautical qualifications needed for sailing

If you want to become a sailing professional, you can obtain different qualifications according to what you are interested in specializing yourself in. We have left you here a small guide about international nautical qualifications. The most basic one is México’s equivalent of the International basic nautical license, with which you can skipper boats up to 6 m in length or length and works for coastal navigation and during the day. It is followed by a nautical license that allows you to skipper boats with 8 m in length, 5 miles from the coast during the day and night. The qualification of Certificado de Competencia especial para P.Y., or yacht skipper license gives you the opportunity to captain a boat for recreational purposes of up to 15 m at a distance of 12 miles from the coast. The limits? They will be set by you only. Which type of watercraft have you got in mind?

4. A sport that encourages teamwork

Whether you do sailing professionally with your nautical qualification or as aa hobby, it is important to work as a team and to have all members on board the boat working hard to achieve the goal you set for yourself. The instructor will always be on the lookout and at the beginning he or she will guide you and tell you how to do it so that later you can take the helm into your own hands and decide the course of the boat. It will be a fun day where everyone participates in the decision-making process and, in the end, everyone is satisfied with what is achieved as a team.