RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities

Each year approximately 4,500 people apply to the RYA for a commercial endorsement in order to use their RYA qualifications professionally as skipper or crew. You could be doing anything from delivering a new 35? yacht or driving a workboat with lifting and towing gear, to running a superyacht in the Med or a charter fishing boat in the Solent. Whatever your job is on board, in the commercial world you are a professional seafarer. As such, you are no different from the captain of a cruise liner ? you have a duty of care to crew, passengers, and other water users, and you will be held to account if things go wrong.

Course Structure

. Commercial environment – how you fit into the professional maritime world.

. The importance of correct manning, keeping your skills up to date and the safe management of commercial vessels.

. The compulsory carriage and maintenance of safety equipment and how to create and implement risk control and operating procedures. ?

. Making sure your vessel is suitable and legal for the work you are carrying out, your obligations in protecting the environment, appropriate planning and situational awareness.