RYA Intermediate Powerboat

The aim of this course is to improve boat handling and to learn the skills necessary to undertake short passages by day. The course includes navigation & Pilotage, fuel & engine checks, as well as boat handling in rough weather.

Preparation: Pilotage, navigation, fuel and engine checks.

Boat handling: effects of waves and rougher conditions, power trim and trim tabs, berthing in different situations, use of GPS in high speed navigation and Pilotage by day.

Course Structure

• Planning a day cruise

• Understanding your responsibility as a skipper of a vessel

• Boat preparation

• Boat handling

• Pilotage

• Passage making

• Man overboard