RYA Powerboat Advanced

Fast planing, making passages at night and handling challanging sea states, are just some of the elements of the RYA Powerboat Advanced course. If you are ready to get trained for more challenging conditions, then this intensive two days course is exactly what you need. Participants at the Advanced course are a mix of experienced recreational and commercial powerboat skippers.

Course content

This course is the 'best in class' level training for powerboating. We will work with you on 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, in more demanding conditions.

Participating at this course requires already having build up some proper experience and solid knowledge. In order to get the most out of this course, we recommend anyone considering to participate the course to first complete the Intermediate Powerboat course.

This Advanced course is available as 2 consecutive days.

Amongst other you will learn

Preparation: passage planning, meteorology, safety and the skipper’s responsibilities.
Boat handling and manoeuvres: high speed handling, pilotage by day and night.
Emergency situations including search patterns.
Awareness of chart plotters and use of radar.

How to prepare yourself for this course

Your knowledge of navigation, chart work and regulations should be at the level of the RYA Yachtmaster/Coastal Skipper shorebased theory course to succesfully participate in this course and obtain the course certificate. In addition, it is recommended to hold a First aid certificate and a VHF/SRC operators licence.

In order to get the most out of your course, we offer you the possibility to do our online pre-course knowledge quiz. The quiz helps you to test your knowledge and to assess whether you need more preparation in some areas.

Ability after the course

You’ll have optimised your powerboat experience, ready and confident to plan and execute high speed coastal trips and close quarters manoeuvres by day and night.

What's included

Tuition by one of our RYA Powerboat Advanced instructors
C-MASTERS Pre-course knowledge quiz
Coffee and thee ashore
All mooring and fuel fees
Free parking at our premises
RYA Powerboat Advanced personalised Certificate of Competence

Details of this course

Duration: The course is available as 2 consecutive days

Location from where this course will be delivered:

Zeeland (the Netherlands)

Previous experience: Competent and skilled at the level of RYA Powerboat Intermediate

Assumed knowledge:

Your knowledge of navigation, chart work and regulations must be at the level of the RYA Yachtmaster/Coastal Skipper shorebased theory course to succesfully participate in this course and obtain the course certificate. In addition, it is recommended to hold a First aid certificate and a VHF/SRC operators licence.

Language: This course is provided in English.

Number of students: 3

Cost: 775 euro

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Supporting courses

We recommend attending the RYA Yachtmaster/Coastal Skipper shorebased theory course, the RYA First Aid and the RYA Radar operator course before following the Powerboat Advanced practical course.

Next steps

The RYA Powerboat Advanced Certificate of Competence can be commercially endorsed for anyone with ambition to find work as a professional crew member.

After successfully completing this course, and having build up some solid experience on powerboats, you might consider becoming an instructor yourself.