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Advanced Powerboat (‘CoC’) Commercial Exam

Duration: 1 day

Time: From 10am plus the evening

Group Size: 3 per boat

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Advanced Powerboat (‘CoC’) Commercial Exam - General

The RYA/MCA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence (‘CoC’) Examination is undertaken by those wishing to operate craft commercially up to 20 miles from a safe haven by day or night.

Exam Duration

This can only be a rough guide and a whole variety of factors affect how long each examination lasts. As a guide though – 1 candidate 4 – 5 hours, 2 candidates 5 – 6 hours, 3 Candidates 6 – 7 hours

Minimum seatime required

2 years relevant experience including night pilotage. (As a guide 30 days, 2 days as skipper, 800 miles, 12 night hours). If you hold an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course Completion Certificate the seatime is reduced to: 20 days, 2 days as skipper, 400 miles, 12 night hours. Your theory knowledge should be at the level of RYA Yachtmaster Theory.

Examiner – student ratio

3 students to 1 RYA/MCA Examiner and boat.

Minimum Age

What training and preparation should I undertake before taking the examination?

This will vary from person to person but it is easy to underestimate the level that you need to be at for the Advanced Examination. The common mistake to make is to assume that because you have taken the Advanced Powerboat Course that you are at the right level. The Advanced Powerboat Course is a really good work-up to the exam and certainly most people should undertake it. However by way of example the Advanced Course may introduce you to night navigation whereas the exam requires you to demonstrate a high degree of competence at night way above the level you would have been at if the Advanced Course was your first trip out at night. In short the advanced course introduces techniques and methods whilst the exam tests that using those techniques and methods is second nature to you. This will only be the case if you have invested plenty of time practicing the methods and actually put them into practice on real passages.

Make sure that ahead of the exam that you ensure that your theory is fully up to scratch (you need to be at the level of RYA Yachtmaster Theory) and put time in ensuring your close quarter boat handling is very good in any conditions. You should be able to put a RIB into almost any marina berth the examiner chooses either bow or stern first in any conditions. Practicing the various pilotage techniques you will use day and night to ensure you are totally happy with their use is of course essential.

Overall the key thing is to ensure that you have enough experience and time afloat as you need to evidence a high degree of competence and confidence to the examiner. The examiner has to judge whether to recommend that you are capable of being responsible for 12 passengers so he/she has to be sure that you have the necessary skills.

Why choose Powerboat Training UK for your RYA Advanced Powerboat Examination?

Our boats ~ with 7.8m fully coded Ribcrafts based in both Poole and Lymington we are able to provide first class boats for you to use on the examination. Each RIB is fully equipped with all relevant safety equipment and are fitted with Icom and Garmin electronics.

Our location and teaching facilities ~ Poole Harbour is a truly amazing location – so much so that the RNLI and the Royal Marines base their training operations here.

Likewise our base in Lymington at Aquasafe Powerboat School is at Lymington Yacht Haven which like Cobbs Quay is a large marina with a huge range of craft. Our classrooms are well resourced, clean and professional.

Both locations provide a first class venue for an examination and except in extreme conditions exams are rarely weather affected.

What is included in the examination fee and what else do I pay? The examination fee is set by the RYA each year and is available in our price list. It is payable to the RYA through the examiner on the day either by credit card or cheque.

You will also need to either provide your own boat or charter one of our RIBs.

If you charter on of our RIBs then this is at the rates detailed in our Course Prices – here

If you want to use your own craft you will need to provide a seaworthy vessel equipped with the following:

• Lights conforming with IRPCS
• VHF radio (may be portable)
• GPS (may be hand held) or Plotter
• Depth Sounder
• Anchor, Chain and Warp
• Basic tool kit and spares
• Heaving line
• Paddles or additional means of propulsion
• Flares – 2 hand held, 2 orange smoke
• Bilge pump or buckets / bailer
• First Aid Kit

Additionally if not on the boat you will need to bring to the exam:

• Laminated or waterproof charts
• A GPS set (may be hand held)
• Tide tables
• Pilotage information for the local area, eg pilot books, port information etc
• Plotting instruments

You must wear a 150 or 275 Newton lifejacket with a DoT(UK) approved lifejacket light.

Advanced Powerboat (‘CoC’) Commercial Exam - Syllabus

Syllabus for the Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence Examination

Preparation for Sea

• Preparation of vessel
• Safety brief
• Stowing and securing gear for coastal passages
• Engine operations and routine checks, fuel systems, kill cord
• Fuel system, bleeding, changing filters and impellors

Boat handling

• Hull forms and their handling characteristics, propeller configurations.
• Knowledge of action to be taken in rough weather
• Significance of tidal stream on sea conditions
• Steering and power control through waves
• Understanding and correct use of power trim and tabs
• Towing, under open sea conditions and in confined areas
• Strategy up and downwind and in heavy weather

Awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring, including

• Steering to transits and in buoyed channels
• Turning in a confined space
• All berthing and un-berthing
• Picking up and leaving a mooring buoy
• Recovery of man overboard
• Awareness of ground speed and ability to hold the boat on station

Responsibilities of skipper

• Can skipper the vessel with effective crew communication
• Preparing the vessel for sea and for adverse weather
• Tactics for heavy weather and restricted visibility
• Emergency and distress situations
• Customs procedures
• Courtesy to other water users

Passage making and Pilotage Your chart work and theory knowledge should include:

• Charts, navigational publications and sources of navigational information
• Chart work, including position fixing and shaping course to allow for tide
• Tidal heights and depths
• Buoyage and visual aids to navigation
• Instruments, including compasses, logs, echo sounders, radio navaids and chartwork instruments
• Passage planning and navigational tactics
• Importance of pre-planning High speed navigation, pre-planning and execution
• Use of electronic navigation (GPS & Radar)
• Pilotage techniques and plans for entry into or departure from harbour
• Use of leading and clearing lines, transits and soundings as aids to pilotage.
• Navigational records
• Limits of navigational accuracy and margins of safety
• Lee shore dangers

You should be able to enter and depart from a charted port by day or night. Your Examiner will give you a pilotage exercise and ask you to explain your planning. You will need to be aware of the problems of collision avoidance and how to determine your position by night.

Meteorology You should be able to use weather and tidal information to predict likely sea conditions and make passage planning decisions.

• Definition of terms including the Beaufort Scale, and their significance to small craft.
• Sources of weather forecasts
• Weather systems and local weather effects
• Interpretation of weather forecasts, barometric trends and visible phenomena
• Ability to make passage planning decisions based on forecast information

Rules of the Road

Application of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. You should have a working knowledge of IRPCS as well as an understanding of their application.

Candidates will be expected to know what safety equipment should be carried on board the vessel, based either on the recommendations in RYA booklet C8, or the Codes of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Vessels. In particular, candidates must know the responsibilities of a skipper in relation to:

• Fire prevention and fighting
• Safety briefs
• Hull damage/watertight integrity
• Medical emergency
• Towing and being towed
• VHF emergency procedures
• Explanation of helicopter rescue procedures
• Use of flares
• Man overboard
• Search patterns
• Lifejackets
• Awareness of risks to passengers and crew through shock and vibration caused by operating at speed
• Awareness of strategies to mitigate risk of injury caused by shock and vibration Candidates should be familiar with all the equipment on board the vessel, as they may be asked to use this during the examination.

Candidates should be familiar with all the equipment on board the vessel, as they may be asked to use this during the examination.

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Due to the entry requirements for the examination we always ask that we have a chat through the exam and your experience before we go ahead and agree dates with you and book you onto the examination. Obviously for most of the people that we book onto exams we are doing so alongside arranging other courses for them such as Yachtmaster Theory and the Advanced Powerboat Course.

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RYA Advanced Powerboat

Become competent in driving powerboats up to 24m.

Find out About the RYA Advanced Powerboat Course / Certification

Find an Advanced Powerboat Course / Exam

The RYA Advanced Powerboat is a 2 day (and 1 night) course that builds confidence and competency in boat handling, seamanship, pilotage, and navigation in more challenging conditions (day & night). An examination is required for candidates who wish to attain an Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence (‘CoC’). A commercially endorsed CoC allows the individual to operate craft commercially up to 20 miles from a safe haven by day or night. It is a step-up license from the Power Boat Level II, suitable for deck crew looking to operate larger tenders, further distances with confidence and competence.

Course prerequisites / assumed knowledge.

• Competent handling to the standard of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate
• Knowledge of navigation and chartwork to the level of Coastal Skipper
• First aid certificate (Elementary First Aid as part of STCW Basic Training meets the requirement) (a prerequisite for the exam)
• VHF SRC or higher certificate (a prerequisite for the exam)

Minimum Duration:

The course runs over a minimum of 2 days which must include at least 1-night navigation exercise.

Course Outline:

• Preparation for Sea
• Boat Handling
• Passage Making and Responsibility as Skipper
• Meteorology
• Rules of the Road
• Use of Engines
• Emergency Situations
• Night Cruising

Course Outcome:

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to plan and execute coastal trips and return to a familiar port or superyacht by day and night.

Those who wish to obtain an Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competency must pass the Advanced Powerboat Examination

RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam (Practical)

Prerequisites:.

Seatime required: (If the below sea time requirement is met, and the student has the required knowledge, the exam can be taken without completing the Advanced Powerboat course. Completion of the course will reduce the sea time and experience requirement. Please view information on the RYA website or contact a training provider through the links at the bottom of this page for more details)

• 30 days at sea, which may be reduced to 20 days at sea if an RYA Advanced Powerboat course completion certificate is held;
• 2 days as skipper;
• 800 miles, which may be reduced to 400 miles if an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course completion certificate is held;
• 12 night hours.

Certification / qualifications required:

• A GMDSS-compliant Marine Radio Operator's Certificate such as the RYA Short Range Certificate or higher
• Valid first aid certificate (the STCW Elementary First Aid meets these requirements for yacht crew who have completed their basic training.

Exam duration:

• 4-7 hours depending on the number of candidates. COntact an exam facilitator to find out more information.

Commercially Endorsed Advanced Powerboat Coc (Certificate of Competence)

Provided the exam is passed and the prerequisites are met, this certificate can be commercially endorsed with allowing the crew members to drive commercial vessels up to 24m in length, subject to MCA’s codes of practice, the flag under which the vessel operates as well as the region. This makes the course a viable option for the crew members who need to drive large tenders but do not hold Yachtmaster certifications.

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About The Course

The RYA/MCA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence exam is a practical test of skippering ability by day and night in the type of craft applicable to the National Powerboat Scheme.

• Prepartion for Sea
• Boat Handling
• Awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring
• Responsibilities of Skipper
• Passage making and Pilotage
• Meteorology
• Rules of the Road

Full details of the exam syllabus and requirements are shown in the RYA’s Powerboat Logbook (code G20) available from the RYA webshop.

Assumed Knowledge

• 30 days at sea, which may be reduced to 20 days at sea if an RYA Advanced Powerboat course completion certificate is held;
• 2 days as skipper;
• 800 miles, which may be reduced to 400 miles if an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course completion certificate is held;
• 12 night hours.
• Form of Exam:    Practical
• A GMDSS compliant Marine Radio Operator’s Certificate such as the RYA Short Range Certificate or higher.
• An RYA First Aid Certificate or another valid first aid certificate, as detailed on the RYA website .
• Advanced Powerboat course completion certificate ONLY IF claiming reduced sea time detailed above.
• Minimum Age :    17 at the time of the exam.

Before you book your exam please check that you:

• Can provide a boat (See Below)
• Have completed the required mileage and experience as skipper
• Hold a VHF Radio Operators License or Short Range Certificate
• Hold a valid first aid certificate
• Have read the syllabus in RYA publication G20
• Have read and comply with the pre-requisites above.

PPSA are able to deliver the RYA First Aid Certificate Course (MCA approved) and the VHF Short Range Certificate Course if required.  Please call for more details.  If you need your Certificate of Competence in order to work on board a commercial craft subject the MCA’s codes of practice, you will need to get it commercially endorsed

• 1 candidate: 4 to 5 hours.
• 2 candidates: 5 to 6 hours,
• 3 candidates: 6 to 7 hours.

On Completion

Course equipment.

Boats used for exams.  Candidates should be familiar with all the equipment on board the vessel, as they may be asked to use this during the examination.  You may use your own boat or a boat that you have chartered or borrowed. You will be responsible for ensuring the boat is seaworthy and suitable for the area in which the exam takes place and equipped as shown below. The vessel must be capable of a minimum of 12 knots, equipped with the following:

• Lights conforming with IRPCS
• VHF radio (may be portable)
• GPS (may be hand held) or plotter
• Depth sounder
• Anchor, chain and warp
• Basic tool kit and spares
• Heaving line
• Paddles or additional means of propulsion
• Flares: 2 hand held, 2 orange smoke
• Bilge pump or buckets/bailer
• First aid kit

Additionally if not on the boat, you will need to bring to the exam:

• Laminated or waterproof charts
• GPS set (may be hand held)
• Tide tables
• Pilotage information for the local area, eg pilot books, port information etc
• Plotting instruments.

Boat Charter Prices

PPSA manages a Coded Vessel suitable for exams which can be chartered for exams and comes fully equipped.  Prices are variable depending on the number of candidates per exam.  1 x candidate = £450, 2 x candidate = £300 pp, 3 x candidate = £210 pp

Course Dates

Call Us .   Please note, the exams run at PPSA are normally run during the winter/autumn months when light levels allow a full evening availabilty.  Please give us a call to arrange dates for your exam when you and the examiner are available.  Pre-booking is essential.  Get in touch with the staff at [email protected] or on 01646 564660

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The RYA Powerboat Advanced course includes GPS navigation, improved boat handling skills, high-speed navigation, night navigation, rough weather handling and sector searches, as well as a refresher on all other aspects of powerboating learnt on previous RYA powerboat qualification courses.

On completion of this course you can sit the RYA MCA Advanced Powerboat exam (certificate of competence). If you wish to gain work within the marine industry, like skippering commercial vessels, your RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence can be commercially endorsed #.

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The RYA Powerboat Advanced course covers a broad range of subjects aimed at developing your skills and confidence as a skipper. This includes techniques for planning, day and night navigation and pilotage into various harbours. You will revise different man over board recovery techniques and review hypothermia and cold water shock. You will learn how to create and carry out a variety of search patterns and there will be advanced powerboat handling practice in a range of wind and tide conditions, plus we will endeavour to find suitable waves to learn how to handle the boat safely in rougher seas. You will also revise collision regulations and meteorology at sea.

RYA Powerboat Advanced course £349 per person:

• Maximum per course: 3 people
• Course duration: 2 days
• Minimum age: 16 years old (accompanied by an adult)
• Course location: Unit 9 Sparkes Marina, Wittering Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire PO11 9SR

Experienced required:

• RYA Powerboat Level 2
• RYA Powerboat Intermediate
• Coastal Skipper / RYA Yachtmaster theory
• RYA First Aid Certificate
• VHF Radio Certificate – RYA SRC

What the course Includes:

• Vessel fuel costs
• Use of waterproofs and lifejacket
• RYA certificate
• Expert tuition
• Free parking

RYA Powerboat Advanced course content:

During this course you will have the opportunity to develop your safety and boat handling to a standard required where you are able to deal with long passages in rougher weather by day and night and, where certified, have the skills to handle commercial vessels (# see below):

• Safety briefing and preparation of vessel
• Boat handling in rough conditions
• Stowing and securing gear for coastal passages
• Engine operations and routine checks
• Fuel system bleeding and changing filters
• Impellors and propeller configurations
• Hull forms and their handling characteristics
• Knowledge of action to take in rough weather
• Significance of tidal stream on sea conditions
• Steering and power control through waves
• Understanding and correct use of power trim and tabs
• Towing under open sea conditions and in confined areas
• Strategy upwind and downwind and in heavy weather
• Awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring
• Steering to transits and in buoyed channels
• Turning in a confined space
• Berthing and un­berthing techniques
• Picking up and leaving a mooring buoy
• Anchoring and recovery of man over board
• Awareness of ground speed and ability to hold a boat on station
• Skippering a vessel and effective crew communication
• Preparation for sea and for adverse weather
• Tactics for heavy weather and restricted visibility
• Emergency and distress situations
• Customs procedures
• Courtesy to other water users
• Pilotage and passage making
• Charts, navigational publications and navigational information
• Chart work, position fixing and shaping course to allow for tide
• Tidal heights and depths
• Buoyage and visual aids to navigation Instruments
• Compass, logs, echo sounders, radio nav aids, chartwork instruments
• Passage planning and navigational tactics
• Importance of route pre­planning
• High speed navigation, pre­planning and execution
• Use of electronic navigation (GPS and radar)
• Pilotage techniques and plans for entry or departure from harbour
• Leading and clearing lines, transits and soundings as aids to pilotage
• Limits of navigational accuracy and margins of safety
• Keeping navigational records
• Lee shore dangers
• Advanced meteorology
• Application of IRPCS
• Safety on board
• Skipper responsibilities

Buy the RYA Powerboat Advanced handbook at the RYA shop click here

# RYA commercially endorsed qualifications open the door to a marine career. For information about holding a commercial endorsement on your RYA certification, including medical fitness and the commercial endorsement application form, visit the  RYA website .

Advanced powerboat exam candidates wishing to gain this MCA RYA qualification should be experienced power boaters and this would include:

• 2 years and 30 days at sea
• 2 days as a skipper
• 800 miles and 12 night hours

If students already hold an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course Completion Certificate then sea time is reduced to:

• 20 days at sea
• 2 days as a skipper
• 400 miles and 12 night hours

Your theory knowledge should be to a Coastal Skipper level or above. All exam candidates will also require:

• A passport photo
• A copy of your VHF / SRC operator’s license
• A copy of your valid first aid certificate

Students wishing to commercial endorse their certificate will also require:

• A copy of your Sea Survival certificate
• A completed ML5 medical report
• Adding the commercial endorsement will cost an extra £32 payable to the RYA

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What is a commercial endorsement?

It is an endorsement printed on your RYA certificate of competence to show that you have undergone additional training and a medical fitness test, enabling you to work on commercial vessels. There are two types of commercial endorsement:

The standard commercial endorsement allows you work on board British flagged vessels subject to the MCA’s codes of practice for small commercial vessels. The following wording would appear on your certificate:

• For Yachtmaster Offshore and Yachtmaster Ocean Certificates of Competence: This certificate is valid for use as a Master of yachts of up to 200gt on commercially and privately registered yachts until (date of expiry).
• For Powerboat Level 2, Powerboat Advanced, Day Skipper and Yachtmaster Coastal Certificates of Competence: Valid for vessels of up to 24 metres in length used for commercial purposes subject to the codes of practice issued by the MCA until (date of expiry).

The STCW endorsement is for holders of the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore and Ocean Certificates of Competence working under non-UK maritime authorities. It requires you to take 4 additional courses:

• Personal Survival techniques (STCW A-V1/1-1)
• Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities (STCW A-V1/1-4)
• Elementary first aid (STCW A-V1/1-3)
• Fire fighting and fire prevention (STCW A-V1/1-2)

The following wording would appear on your certificate: The certificate holder has completed training under the STCW code A- VI/1 Para 2.1. This certificate is valid for use as Master of yachts of up to 200gt on commercially and privately registered yachts until:(date of expiry).

Which certificates can be commercially endorsed?

The following certificates can receive the standard commercial endorsement:

I) Course completion certificate:

• RYA National Powerboat Certificate – Level 2
• RYA National Powerboat Certificate – Advanced (only if issued before January 1, 2005)
• RYA Day Skipper (tidal) practical course completion certificate.
• RYA Day Skipper (non-tidal) practical course completion certificate, only if supported by a Day Skipper shorebased course completion certificate.

II) Certificate of competence (exam passed):

• RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence
• RYA Yachtmaster Coastal Certificate of Competence
• RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence
• RYA Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate of Competence

In addition, the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore and Yachtmaster Ocean Certificates of Competence can receive the STCW endorsement.

Which certificate do I need?

The MCA’s codes of practice categorise British flagged commercial yachts according to the type of yacht and the waters in which they operate. It is this categorisation that determines which of the above certificates you will need. See the MCA’s table of manning requirements below.

The RYA is a certifying authority for the codes of practice and can give advice on the coding and categorisation of commercial yachts. See the requirements for commercial boats link below.

How do I apply for a standard commercial endorsement?

Send the following items to RYA Certification, RYA House, Ensign Way, Hamble, Hampshire SO31 4YA:

• Your original certificate – see list above
• Your Professional Practices and Responsibilites certificate – more information
• A commercial endorsement application form – see link on the right
• An ML5 or ENG1 medical fitness certificate – download the MCA’s ML5 form from the link on the right. Skippers working in category 1 or 0 waters will need the ENG1 medical. Contact the MCA for a list of approved doctors.
• A copy of your RYA Basic Sea Survival certificate or STCW Personal Survival Techniques
• A passport sized photo with your name on the back

*From April 2012 applicants for the commercial endorsement will also have to complete an online course and assessment, as detailed in the ‘What is a commercial endorsement?’ section above.

How do I apply for a STCW endorsement?

• Your original RYA Yachtmaster Offshore or Yachtmaster Ocean certificate of competence
• A commercial endorsement application form – see link below
• Evidence of completion of STCW courses – see list above

Revalidating your commercial endorsement

All commercial endorsements must be revalidated every five years by proving at least 150 days of actual sea service on appropriate vessels during the previous five years, and be in possession of a valid medical fitness certificate.

If you are unable to prove the requisite sea service but are able to demonstrate that during at least half of the five year period you have been employed on duties closely associated with the management and operation of one or more of the appropriate types of vessels, you may have your certificate considered for revalidation.

*April 2012 onwards applicants for the commercial endorsement also have to complete an online PPR course and assessment, as detailed here .

Once you have taken your first PPR course, at subsequent renewals of your commercial endorsement you will need to take a reduced version of the course and a short test to make sure you are still up to speed with the subject.

Note: If you are over 65 and subject to more regular medical fitness examinations, you do not need to take the PPR course each time you renew your medical. You will simply need to take it when your commerical endorsment is due for renewal (normally every five years).

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RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam

Full details of the exam syllabus and requirements are shown in the RYA's Powerboat Logbook (code G20) available from the webshop.

Boats used for exams

You may use your own boat or a boat that you have chartered or borrowed. You will be responsible for ensuring the boat is seaworthy and suitable for the area in which the exam takes place and equipped as shown below.

The vessel must be capable of a minimum of 12 knots, equipped with the following:

• lights conforming with IRPCS
• VHF radio (may be portable)
• GPS (may be hand held) or plotter
• depth sounder
• anchor, chain and warp
• basic tool kit and spares
• heaving line
• paddles or additional means of propulsion
• flares: 2 hand held, 2 orange smoke
• bilge pump or buckets/bailer
• first aid kit

Additionally if not on the boat, you will need to bring to the exam:

• laminated or waterproof charts
• GPS set (may be hand held)
• tide tables
• pilotage information for the local area, eg pilot books, port information etc
• plotting instruments.
• Photographic ID card or document, such as a passport or driving licence

Advanced Powerboat exam pre-requisites

Before you book your exam please check that you:

• can provide a boat
• have completed the required mileage and experience as skipper
• hold a VHF Radio Operators License or Short Range Certificate
• hold a valid first aid certificate
• have read the syllabus in RYA publication G20
• have read and comply with the pre-requisites above.

Candidates should be familiar with all the equipment on board the vessel, as they may be asked to use this during the examination.

If you need your Certificate of Competence in order to work on board a commercial craft subject the MCA's codes of practice, you will need to get it commercially endorsed .

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RYA & STCW Courses – Sail, Power, Super-Yacht & Workboat

MCA/RYA Advanced Powerboat COC Certificate of Competence

Advanced powerboat coc exam prep aims:.

The Advanced Powerboat COC Exam prep follows on from the RYA Powerboat Advanced Course.  for those who require the MCA / RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence. This Advanced Power exam also know as the Advanced Powerboat Commercial is intended for advanced drivers who wish to work commercially. It is broadly equivalent to the Yachtmaster Coastal Power Certificate of Competence Exam but examined in an open boat (such as an outboard driven RIB).

To give you the best chance of passing, we offer an intensive three day preparation course and exam. This will include two night exercises with our Instructor and a third one on the final night with your examiner. This course is often run back to back after the 2 day RYA Powerboat Advanced Course (similar named course).

ADVANCED POWERBOAT COC EXAM PREP DURATION:

This advanced powerboat commercial package spans three days. We need at least 4 to 5 hours of daylight and at least  3 to 4 hours of darkness each day so exact timings vary depending on the season. As an example, in December, Day 1 runs 1200 to 2100ish and June/July courses run 1400-0000ish. Day 2 is a longer day as you will complete a passage planning theory exercise in the morning as part of your exam preparation.

ADVANCED POWER COC EXAM PREP PRE REQUISITES:

• Minimum age 18 (essential)
• RYA First Aid  or STCW Elementary First Aid  or STCW Medical First Aid  (essentiall)
• RYA SRC, or higher GMDSS cert.  (essential)
• RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased  (other training centres may accept you onto their exam preparation course without this prior training but we are committed to you passing your Advanced exam so will not waste your or our time)
• RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate (highly recommended)
• RYA Radar  (or equivalent knowledge)

The RYA and MCA state that Advanced Power CoC exam candidates must have the following minimum sea time, gained over at least two years.

• 30 days on board
• 2 days as skipper
• 12 night hours
• For holders of the two-day Advanced Course Completion Certificate , this sea time is reduced to 20 days and 400 miles. We generally run these two courses back to back.

The cold and harsh reality is, that unless candidates have gained the above sea-time over a very structured formal training programme, they will usually require more experience in order to successfully pass the exam. You will typically log 6-8 night hours over the two training evenings of this course.

ADVANCED POWERBOAT COC EXAM PREP COURSE CONTENT:

There are four component to the final exam

• Close quarter boat handling
• Theoretical passage planning
• Supporting knowledge (theory)
• Skippering the night exercise (night pilotage)

During the Advanced Powerboat commercial exam, candidates will be expected to demonstrate that they are competent skippers. The examiner can test candidates on any part of the Powerboat scheme (except the safety-boat course) and on any part of the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased and/or  RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased courses.

We will devote some of the advanced exam preparation course to each of the above four examined areas. However the two days preparation will be largely spent planning and carrying out the night exercise. The second morning will be devoted to your passage planning exercise.

It is important that candidate recognise this is an exam preparation course and they should arrive with knowledge and experience of most of the necassary skills and techniques. There is not time on this course to teach these skills from scratch, the exam preparation is an opportunity to polish and refine these skills with coaching from our Instructor before presenting yourself to an examiner on the final day. The exam syllabus is;

SYLLABUS FOR ADVANCED POWERBOAT EXAMINATION

1 preparation for sea.

• Preparation of vessel
• Safety brief
• Stowing and securing gear for coastal passages
• Engine operations and routine checks, fuel systems, kill cord
• Fuel system, bleeding, changing filters and impellors

2 BOAT HANDLING

• Hull forms and their handling characteristics, propeller configurations.
• Knowledge of action to be taken in rough weather
• Significance of tidal stream on sea conditions
• Steering and power control through waves
• Understanding and correct use of power trim and tabs
• Towing, under open sea conditions and in confined areas
• Strategy up and downwind and in heavy weather
• Awareness of the effects of wind and tide when manoeuvring, including
• Steering to transits and in buoyed channels
• Turning in a confined space
• All berthing and un-berthing
• Picking up and leaving a mooring buoy
• Recovery of man overboard
• Awareness of ground speed and ability to hold the boat on station

3 RESPONSIBILITIES OF SKIPPER

• Can skipper the vessel with effective crew communication
• Preparing the vessel for sea and for adverse weather
• Tactics for heavy weather and restricted visibility
• Emergency and distress situations
• Customs procedures
• Courtesy to other water users

4 PASSAGE MAKING AND PILOTAGE

Your chart work and theory knowledge should include:

• Charts, navigational publications and sources of navigational information
• Chart work, including position fixing and shaping course to allow for tide
• Tidal heights and depths
• Buoyage and visual aids to navigation
• Instruments, including compasses, logs, echo sounders, radio navaids and chartwork instruments
• Passage planning and navigational tactics
• Importance of pre-planning
• High speed navigation, pre-planning and execution
• Use of electronic navigation (GPS & Radar)
• Pilotage techniques and plans for entry into or departure from harbour
• Use of leading and clearing lines, transits and soundings as aids to pilotage.
• Navigational records
• Limits of navigational accuracy and margins of safety
• Lee shore dangers

You should be able to enter and depart a charted port by day or night. Your Examiner will give you a pilotage exercise and ask you to explain your planning. You will need to be aware of the problems of collision avoidance and how to determine your position by night.

5 METEOROLOGY

You should be able to use weather and tidal information to predict likely sea conditions and make passage planning decisions.

• Definition of terms including the Beaufort Scale, and their significance to small craft.
• Sources of weather forecasts
• Weather systems and local weather effects
• Interpretation of weather forecasts, barometric trends and visible phenomena
• Ability to make passage planning decisions based on forecast information

6 RULES OF THE ROAD

• Application of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.
• You should be able to identify vessels by day and night.

Candidates will be expected to know what safety equipment should be carried on board the vessel, based either on the recommendations in RYA booklet C8, or the Codes of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Vessels. In particular, candidates must know the responsibilities of a skipper in relation to:

• Fire prevention and fighting
• Hull damage/watertight integrity
• Medical emergency
• Towing and being towed
• VHF emergency procedures
• Explanation of helicopter rescue procedures
• Use of flares
• Man overboard
• Search patterns
• Lifejackets

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE ADVANCED POWERBOAT COC EXAM PREP?

• 2 days and 2 nights of instruction
• Use of one of our RIBs for the 3 days and nights
• Loan of a life jacket
• An examiner arranged for you
• Free on street parking
• Tea & Coffee

WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED IN THE ADVANCED POWERBOAT COC EXAM PREP?

• RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam Fee
• Wet weather gear (£5 per day to hire)

OPTIONAL EXTRAS:

In order to then commercially endorse this qualification, skippers will also need a RYA Sea Survival Certificate , a Seafarers Medical from a doctor and a  RYA PPR certificate. The RYA then charge you a commercial endorsement fee .

BOOKING THE ADVANCED POWERBOAT COC EXAM PREP

If the dates below do not suit please contact us as we may be able to arrange some dates around you.

IS THIS COURSE FOR ME?

This training course and exam is specifically aimed at the commercial sector (i.e. those wanting to drive powerboats for a living). The Advanced Power Exam will qualify you as skipper (master) of powerboats up to 24m in length, up to 20 nm from a safe haven and to carry up to 12 passengers. The Advanced CoC Commercial exam is popular across the industry from corporate entertainment RIB drivers, through wind farm transfer crew and onto parts of the offshore industry. It is a good stepping stone, on the way towards the Yachtmaster Offshore (Power) Certificate of Competence and probably the most appropriate MCA/RYA Certificate of Competence for skippers operating most RIBs.

WHY CHOOSE CHIEFTAIN TRAINING FOR THIS COURSE?

Our Senior management have been running preparation course for the Advanced Commercail COC since the day the exam was introduced in 2005. Our method is tested and proven and has set the industry standard which many other Instructors and training centres now try to follow.  We want you to pass the final exam so we will push you hard during your time with us. Our Instructors will give you 100%.

Once you have booked the course and exam with us you will need to complete an RYA Exam Application Form 

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Compass Sea School Ltd

The highland's premier motor cruising, sailing, powerboating and shorebased training centre, inverness marina – capital of the highlands.

Advanced Powerboat Course

Run over 2 days and a evening (night exercise), the Advanced Powerboat course is designed to teach boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day and night in coastal waters. 

Addresses areas such as night navigation, using on-board electronics, rough water handling and search patterns – a great course! 

Courses all use our Raymarine Axiom plotter and Quantum Radar as part of a #digitalfirst planning and pilotage methodology.

Courses usually run Between mid September and End March

• Course Content
• Previous Experience
• Course Timings
• Minimum Age
• Student Ratios
• You need to bring
• Advanced CoC (Commercial Endorsement)

The Advanced Powerboat course is aimed at the more experienced powerboat handler and assumes you can handle a powerboat very well as it is about developing your skills rather than starting them! It also assumes you understand navigation to the level of Yachtmaster/Coastal Skipper Theory (although you don’t actually need the qualification). We would always suggest that we have a chat with you about your experience before you book the course to ensure that this is the best course for you

Run over 2 days and a evening (night exercise), the Advanced Powerboat course is designed to teach boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day and night in coastal waters. 

Ability at the end of the course: 

• To be able to plan and execute coastal trips and return to a familiar port by night.
• Preparation for Sea
• Boat Handling
• Action to be taken in rough weather
• Passage making and responsibility as Skipper
• Rules of the Road
• Use of Engines
• Towing and being Towed
• Helicopter Rescue procedures
• Search patterns
• Night Cruising

Aimed at experienced leisure boaters and those seeking to work commercially the Advanced Course can be followed by the Advanced Examination.

The pinnacle of the courses within the RYA powerboat scheme the Advanced Powerboat course suits:

• Experienced leisure users who tend to boat throughout the year keen to develop their understanding of areas such as rough water handling, search patterns and helicopter rescue. The opportunity to develop the capability to navigate at night is always a significant area of interest to attendees.
• Those keen to work commercially will almost certainly want to attend the Advanced Powerboat course before attending their Advanced Powerboat Examination as the course is a way to ensure that they are ‘doing it right’ and in a manner that is likely to prove acceptable to the examiner.
• Existing Powerboat Instructors keen to develop onto become an Advanced Powerboat Instructor will need to undertake the Advanced Course as one of the steps towards becoming an APBI.
• Existing commercial users operating at a level below the Advanced level will often use the advanced courses as a form of ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD). to ensure those skippers continue to develop their skills
• The course assumes you can handle a powerboat very well as it is about developing your skills rather than starting them! 
• Candidates should be competent to more than the standard of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate.
• It also assumes you understand navigation to the level of at LEAST Day Skipper Theory ideally you will be at the Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster offshore theory standard
• It is strongly recommended that candidates hold a first aid certificate and a VHF operators certificate.
• Courses usually start at 0900 and will finish around 3-4 hours after it gets dark on day 1 to accommodate the night exercise. 
• Day 2 starts at 0900 and we aim to finish by 1700 – please check your booking confirmation for details

Minimum Duration: 2 days including a night passage

17 years old

This course operates with a maximum of 3 students per instructor/vessel

• Passport Photograph – essential for us to issue your certificate.
• Your certificates/Powerboat Logbook i.e. RYA Intermediate certificate, VHF-SRC, Theory certificates

If you are looking to achieve a Commercial Endorsement at Advanced PB level you will need to conduct the Advanced Certificate of Competence (CoC) Exam.

Please note that the Advanced Powerboat Course CAN NOT be commercially endorsed

Looking to work commercially?

Read more about powerboating from our blog

How do I get the RYA Advanced Certificate of Competence?

What certificates/licences do you need to work commercially with Motor / Powerboats?

Aims to teach boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day and night in tidal coastal waters, with which the candidate may be familiar, in more demanding conditions. 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.

Candidates should be competent to the level of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate with a knowledge of the navigation and chartwork to the level of Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased certificate.

It is strongly recommended that candidates hold a first aid certificate and a VHF operators certificate.

2 days including at least 1 night navigation exercise

Preparation for sea, boat handling, passage making and responsibility as skipper, pilotage, meteorology, rules of the road, use of engines, emergency situations, night cruising

Able to plan and execute coastal trips and return to a familiar port by night

The course predominantly takes place afloat however some elements, specifically navigation, are classroom based.

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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