RYA Advanced Powerboat

Boat Preparation

Can:

• Prepare the powerboat

• Carry out fuel and engine checks

• Stow and secure gear

Boat Handling

Knowledge of: 

• Differences for a twin-engine vessel

Understands:

• The importance of boat control in waves and adequate seating to minimise the possibility of injury

• Characteristics of various hull forms and propeller configurations

• Action to be taken in rough weather

Can:

• Demonstrate a practical understanding and correct use of power trim and trim tabs

• Demonstrate an awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring, including

  • Steering to transits and in buoyed channels

  • Turning in a confined space

  • Berthing in various conditions of wind and tide

  • Picking up and leaving a mooring buoy 

  • Demonstrate the use of an appropriate length kill cord at all times 

• Pick up a man overboard in differing conditions

Passage Making and Responsibility as Skipper

Understands: 

•  The importance of pre-trip planning

• Planning and making coastal passages, taking into account the relevant navigational hazards, the type of boat and the strengths of the crew

• Chart plotters and radar, their advantages and limitations

Can:

• Organise the navigation, safety and welfare of the crew during a powerboat passage

• Navigate at higher speed using a range of techniques

• Use electronic navigational equipment for planning and undertaking  a passage, including the use of waypoints, routes and XTE, SOG, BTW, DTW*

Pilotage

Can: 

• Cary out pilotage plans pilotage for entry into or departure from harbour

• Use leading and clearing lines, transits back bearings and soundings as aids to pilotage

• Navigate using soundings

Section B 

Meteorology 

Understands: 

• Terms used in shipping forecasts, including the Beaufort scale, and their significance to small craft

Sources of forecast information and interpretation of forecasts including synoptic charts 

• The significance of meteorological trends

Can:

• Interpret a synoptic chart

• Use and interpret forecasts to make decisions about passages

Rules of the road:

Can:

• Apply the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

Use of Engines

Knowledge of:

• How to change a propeller

• Propeller diameter and pitch

• Propeller ventilation and cavitation

Understands:

• Checks to be made before starting, during running, and after stopping for diesel and petrol engines

• Periodic checks on engines and electrical system including spark plugs, water filters and pump impellers

• Transmission belts

• Spares to be carried

Emergency Situations:

Understands:

• Correct action to take in emergency situations

• Fire prevention and fighting

• Hull damage/watertight integrity

• What to do in a medical emergency

• Towing and being towed

• Helicopter rescue procedures

• Issue distress by all available means

• Search patterns

• The danger of cold shock and immersion hypothermia

Night Cruising

Can:

• Take charge of a powerboat at night, including leaving and entering harbour

• Demonstrate ability at keeping a proper look-out and identifying lit and unlit positions by night

Candidates should be competent to the standard of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate with 

Thorough knowledge of navigation and chartwork to the level of the Coastal Skipper/RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased certificate. 

It is strongly recommended that candidates hold a first aid certificate and a VHF operator's ceritifcate.

Minimum age: 17

• 2 days & 1 evening  of instruction on Maverick, our Humber Ocean Pro 6.8,

• Fuel, 

• Loan of lifejacket, 

• Advanced Powerboat Handbook & Cost of Certificate 

• Use of wet weather gear (if required)

• Use of Head Torch