RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities

The PPR is a compulsory online course for new and revalidating RYA Commercial Endorsement holders.

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. 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.

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

?Vessel – the compulsory carriage and maintenance of safety equipment and how to create and implement risk control and operating procedures. ·

?Purpose – 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.

Useful Information

If you hold an MCA Deck Officer’s Certificate of Competence as Officer of the Watch, Master 200*, Master 500 or above you do not need to take the PPR course. Please send a copy of your MCA certificate with your application or renewal form for your commercial endorsement.