RYA Powerboat Advanced

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Overview

Preparation for sea
- Preparation of vessel
- Safety brief
- Stowing and securing gear for coastal passages
- Engine operations and routine checks, fuel systems, kill-cord
- Fuel system, bleeding, changing filters and impellers
Boat handling
- Hull forms and their handling characteristics, propeller configurations
- Knowledge of action to be taken in rough weather
- Significance of tidal stream on sea conditions
- Steering and power control through waves
- Understanding and correct use of power trim and tabs
- Towing, under open sea conditions and in confined areas
- Strategy up and downwind and in heavy weather
- Awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring, including:
- Steering to transits and in buoyed channels
- Turning in a confined space
- All berthing and un-berthing
- Picking up and leaving a mooring buoy
- Anchoring
- Recovery of man overboard
- Awareness of ground speed and ability to hold the boat on station
Responsibilities
- Skippering the vessel with effective crew communication
- Preparing the vessel for sea and for adverse weather
- Tactics for heavy weather and restricted visibility
- Emergency and distress situations
- Customs procedures
- Courtesy to other water users
Passage making and pilotage
- Your chart work and theory knowledge should include:
- Charts, navigational publications and sources of navigational information
- Chart work, including position fixing and shaping course to allow for tide
- Tidal heights and depths
- Buoyage and visual aids to navigation
- Instruments, including compasses, logs, echo sounders, radio navigation aids and chart work instruments
- Passage planning and navigational tactics
- Importance of pre-planning
- High speed navigation, pre-planning and execute
- Use of electronic navigation (GPS & Radar)
- Pilotage techniques and plans for entry into or departure from harbour
- Use of leading and clearing lines, transits and soundings as aids to pilotage
- Navigational records
- Limits of navigational accuracy and margins of safety
- Lee shore dangers
- You should be able to enter and depart from a charted port by day or night. Your examiner will give you a pilotage exercise and ask you to explain your planning. You will need to be aware of the problems of collision avoidance and how to determine your position by night.
Meteorology
- You should be able to use weather and tidal information to predict likely sea conditions and make passage planning decisions.
- Definition of terms including Beaufort Scale, and their significance to small craft.
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Weather systems and local weather effects
- Interpretation of weather forecasts, barometric trends and visible phenomena
- Ability to make passage planning decisions based on forecast information
Rules of the road
- Application of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.
- You should be able to identify power and sailing vessels by night. Identification of types of ship by night is not required, but you will need a knowledge of the lights of tugs and trawlers.
Safety
- Candidates will be expected to know what safety equipment should be carried on board the vessel, based either on the recommendations in RYA booklet C8, or the Codes of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Vessels. In particular, candidates must know the responsibilities of a skipper in relation to:
- Fire prevention and fighting
- Hull damage / watertight integrity
- Medical emergency
- Towing and being towed
- VHF emergency procedures
- Explanation of helicopter rescue procedures
- Use of flares
- Man overboard
- Sector search
- Lifejackets
- Life rafts

Price - £380.00

RYA Powerboat Advanced is aimed at more experienced leisure and professional boaters who would like to consolidate their experience by achieving a more demanding qualification on board a powerboat.

Courses are held on our Highfield 6m RIBs, (new 2020 & 2021).

The course further develops your skippering techniques so that you can undertake more challenging trips by day and night in coastal waters.

You will carry out advanced high speed manoeuvres such as lee shore handling, berthing in adverse conditions and search and rescue patterns. You will also learn about night time navigation, plan and undertake night time passages.

The RYA Powerboat Advanced qualification can be used commercially and it’s the required standard by many professional bodies such as the RNLI, Police and Military. To obtain your commercial endorsement you will need to complete an independent exam for the Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence conducted by an MCA/RYA examiner.

Pre-Course Experience	The RYA Powerboat Intermediate certificate, or RYA Powerboat Level 2 plus hands-on experience. A working knowledge of navigation and chartwork is also required. If you would like to use this qualification to work commercially, then you’ll also need your First Aid certificate and SRC/VHF radio licence (see the course in the Commercial section of our website).
Assumed Knowledge	Boat handling to Intermediate standard. Navigation to Coastal Skipper.
Student Instructor Ratio	Maximum 3:1
Duration	2 days including practical navigation exercises at night.
Course Content	High speed manoeuvres Close quarters boat handling Heavy weather techniques Boat handling Passage making and responsibility as skipper Pilotage Meteorology Rules of the road Use of engines Emergency situations Night cruising
Ability after Course	You’ll have consolidated your powerboat experience and be confident to plan and execute high speed coastal trips and close quarters manoeuvres, day or night.

What’s Included

You’ll be based at our well-equipped training facilities in Swanwick Marina and included in your course price is:

RYA Advanced Powerboating handbook
Refreshments (tea, coffee and water) throughout the course
All mooring fees
All fuel costs
Use of Urban Truant’s high quality wet weather gear and safety kit
RYA certification for all successful students

Course Dates

Below are listed our available dates. If you cannot see dates that you require, please get in touch with us and we may be able to to arrange a more suitable date.

2025 Dates - Coming soon

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RYA Powerboat Advanced

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