Description
For more experienced powerboat helms, these combined Advanced Powerboat and Yachtmaster Theory courses will give you the knowledge to plan and execute night passages in unfamiliar waters as the skipper.
Advanced Powerboat Course Overview:
The RYA Powerboat Advanced Helm (Day and Night) course is for leisure and professional boaters wanting to undertake more adventurous trips by day and night.
It includes navigation at planing speed, weather and other aspects of skippering powerboats on more challenging passages in coastal waters. Given the nature of these passages Advanced Powerboat courses should be delivered on powerboats of a minimum of 6 metres and an engine size sufficient to enable coastal passages at planing speed.
Anybody undertaking the RYA Powerboat Advanced Helm course must have the practical skills of the Intermediate course and knowledge of navigation to at least the standard of the Coastal Skipper/RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased course
Yachtmaster/Coastal Skipper Theory Course Overview:
This RYA Yachtmaster Theory course is ideal for candidates for the Advanced Powerboat Helm (Day and Night), Coastal Skipper practical course & Yachmaster Offshore exam. The RYA Yachtmaster qualification is the pinnacle of yacht training for sail or power. Anyone seeking to gain an RYA Yachtmaster Certificate of Competence requires a broad theoretical knoweledge base and a significant practical skill.
The RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course containts some revision of the Day Skipper shorebased course plus more advanced skills in offshore & coastal navigation by day & night, pilotage & meteorology.
- Position fixing,
- Course shaping and plotting,
- Tidal knowledge,
- Use of almanacs and admiralty publications,
- Electronic position finding equipment,
- Taking and interpreting forecasts,
- Plotting weather systems,
- Weather predictions using a barometer.
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