Sail Maker (ANZSCO 393113)

On the Regional Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Sail Maker on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Sail Maker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Sail Maker, like its unit-group siblings, carries only the Regional Occupations List, which TRA's own repeated eligibility wording for the Migration Skills Assessment, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program and the TSS Skills Assessment Program does not name — those three each point only to the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists. This is a gap this dossier found in TRA's published wording, not a conclusion that Sail Maker cannot be assessed; TRA's separate occupation-and-country lists for OSAP and TSS were unreachable here. TRA's evidence rule is unqualified regardless: no work experience accepted in place of a formal qualification, whatever program eventually applies.

Where these applications come unstuck

Sail Maker is a narrower, marine-specific trade than its closest relative, Canvas Goods Fabricator — fabricating and repairing sails and other sailcloth articles rather than the general canvas products (awnings, tents, tarpaulins, horse rugs, caravan annexes) that code covers. The two trades share the underlying skill of cutting and reinforcing heavy fabric to a pattern, which is exactly why an applicant working across both kinds of product needs to check which occupation their actual body of work supports, rather than assume the closer-sounding title. A sailmaker's rigging-and-sail portfolio does not obviously establish the broader canvas-goods scope, and the reverse holds equally.

An honest read on this pathway

Sail Maker's Regional Occupations List membership is its only visa route — the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa — with no 482 or 186 sponsorship, no points-tested route and no post-study pathway available on this code. Because Sail Maker and Canvas Goods Fabricator share the same narrow reach, nominating the wrong one of the pair does not cost a visa route the way some confusable codes elsewhere in this family do — but it still risks a mismatched application if the evidence does not genuinely support the occupation claimed. Whether TRA's main assessment programs formally cover this code is unclear from published wording and remains unconfirmed.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

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