RYA Powerboat Tender Operator

This 2 day RYA Powerboat practical course is aimed at superyacht crew, needing to transfer clients from ship to shore, operating a powerboat by day or night with responsibility for carrying passengers. The course includes plenty of time to practice working with a crew member and operating short-handed.

Candidates will practice and become familiar with pilotage for short passages from ship to shore, both day and night.

Course content

The course covers the practical use of pilotage and boat handling by day and night using both traditional and electronic navigational techniques. It teaches you the techniques required to plan and complete a short coastal passage between a yacht and shore.

This course is intended to build on a candidate's basic powerboating knowledge and skills. Attendees will gain confidence in their ability to manoeuvre a powerboat more smoothly. The emphasis is on learning important skills in day and night pilotage and passenger carriage and management.

This course is available as 2 consecutive days.

Amongst other you will learn

Preparation of a tender
Boat handling focusing on passenger safety and comfort
Daytime pilotage
Night time pilotage
Emergency situations
Regulations and theory

How to prepare yourself for this course

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

At the end of the course you will have learned and practiced the skills needed to safely plan and confidently execute ship-to-shore passages in tidal waters during day and night under normal conditions.

What's included

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

Details of this course

Duration: This non-residential course is available as 2 consecutive days

Location from where this course will be delivered:

Zeeland (the Netherlands)

Previous experience: Obtained the Powerboat level 2 certificate of confidence

Assumed knowledge: Your knowledge of theory should be at the level of the Powerboat Level 2 course book or the RYA Essential Navigation theory course

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 Essential Navigation shorebased theory course before following the Powerboat Tender Operator course.

Next steps

After successfully completing this course, we recommend to first extend your knowledge with our RYA shorebased courses such as SRC, Sea Survival or First Aid .

After building up experience during daytime passage, it will be time to learn making longer passages both during day-time and night-time, by joining our RYA Powerboat Intermediate of Advanced course.