Course Details
RYA Advanced Powerboat Course £325.00 in Southampton
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Course Duration | 2 Days 1 Evening |
Times | First day 09.00 - 21.30 or later - Seasonal Dependent. Second day 09.30 - 16.30 |
Previous experience | Candidates should be competent to the standard of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate with a thorough knowledge of navigation and chartwork to the level of RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Theory. It is strongly recommended that candidates hold a first aid certificate and a VHF operators certificate. |
Minimum age | 17 Years old |
Assessment | Continuous assessment |
Certification | On a successful completion of the course an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course Completion Certificate will be issued |
Clothing | Please bring suitable warm clothing to wear (under our free to use Musto GORE-TEX MPX waterproofs) also a hat, gloves, sun screen, and appropriate wellies / shoes - that may get wet, all appropriate for the time of year. The RYA Recommends that all participants use a Dry Suit for the night time Navigation Exercise. |
Lifejackets | We will provide Lifejackets. If you would like to wear your own Lifejacket please ensure that its serviceability is in date and is fitted with a light. |
Refreshment | Bring your own drinks. |
Lunch | Please bring lunches, drinks and a snack/meal for the evening of the first day |
Parking. Fuel for the Powerboat. | Parking is Free. Fuel for the Powerboat is all in the Total course fee of £325.00. VAT Is not charged |
Course Fee | £325.00. Book and pay On Line. A minimum of 2 bookings are required to run this course, call us to see if we have someone else who would also like to do this course |
Course Venue | Tec Rec Coaching. Southampton Dry Stack. 146 Millbank Street. Southampton. SO14 5QN. |

Course Information
A hands on driving and navigating course for day and night.
The Southampton Rivers Test and Itchen along with Southampton Water and the River Hamble, and we haven't even got to the Solent yet, provide a superb location for learning and practicing different forms of navigation.
Only 3 to a course allows you all to take turns at navigating, driving, and reviewing, in the moment.
Using our Coded Twin engine RIB, it has Shock Mitigation seats, Digital Radar, Twin Plotters, and Power Steering.
Passage Planning and Pilotage, interpretation of Navigation at speed along with IRPCS will be the main feature topped up with the remaining parts of the RYA Advanced Powerboat course syllabus.
Other supportive courses:- RYA First Aid Course RYA VHF/SRC Course

Course Content
The aim of the course is to teach boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day and night in tidal coastal waters with which the candidate may be familiar.
Preparation for sea
Boat handling
Passage making and responsibility as skipper
Pilotage
Meteorology
Rules of the Road
Use of engines
Emergency situations
Night cruising

A full programme of navigation development, shaking off some of those bad habits, focusing on day and night Pilotage and Passage Planning.
The Rivers - Itchen, Test, Hamble, Medina and of course Southampton Water and the Solent hold a vast amount of learning opportunities to work on navigation and boat handling.
Building on the skills learned from the RYA Intermediate Powerboat course there will be sessions on improving navigation skills ashore and afloat leading to completing a day time passage and a night time passage taking in all aspects of the course learned so far.
Constant debriefs on learning development.
Check out the RYA Advanced Powerboat course syllabus in the Downloads section below
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Downloads |
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RYA Advanced Powerboat Day and Night course.docx |