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RYA Powerboat Handbook (G-G13)

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Becoming a capable and safe powerboater comes from a mixture of training, experience, and common sense. Updated with new information on electronic navigation and handling at speed, this book will help you acquire the knowledge and confidence to get the most from your time on the water. 

The examples bring concepts to life and methods are adapted to what is realistically achievable in an open powerboat.

Chapters include: 

• Parts of a Boat

• Types of Boats, Engines, Hulls, and Seating Arrangements

• Propellers 

• Safety and Planning

• Launch and Recovery

• Boat Handling

• Leaving and Coming Alongside

• Anchoring

• Travelling at Speed

• Challenging Conditions

• Man Overboard

• Helicopter Rescue

• Towing on the Water

• Knots and Ropework

• Collision Regulations

• Navigation

• Boating at Night and in Restricted Visibility

• Trailing Your Boat

• Cruising in a Powerboat

• Buying and Owning a Boat

• Considering the Environment

• Life-Saving Signals

This book takes advantage of Google's accessibility features (https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006564?hl=en-GB). 

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RYA Advanced Powerboat Handbook (E-G108‪)‬

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This book is the official companion to the RYA Powerboat Advanced course but it is equally relevant to those who are simply keen to develop and consolidate their knowledge to help improve their theoretical and practical skills. The book has been designed to be a key and progressive learning tool which focuses on the advanced aspects of powerboating. This includes the essentials on and off the water and demystifies the more complicated techniques for operating an open vessel by day and night. A variety of interactive illustrations and video clips from the author are exclusive features of the eBook edition and bring concepts to life as they are described on the page. Chapters include: • The Role of the Skipper • Radar and AIS  • Handling in Rougher Weather • Higher-Speed Handling It expands on the knowledge already contained in the entry-level RYA Start Powerboating and intermediate-level RYA Powerboat Handbook, with a focus on the higher-level aspects of advanced powerboating. Accessibility  This book takes advantage of Apple’s accessibility features (https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/vision/).

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RYA Powerboat Handbook (G13)

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Powerboating is a fun, fast and exhilarating sport. The number of powerboats on the water is increasing and the need for both confidence and competence has never been more important. If you are looking to progress to the intermediate levels of the RYA Powerboat Scheme the RYA Powerboat Handbook is a must.

Becoming a capable and safe powerboater comes from a mixture of training, experience, and common sense. With information on electronic navigation and handling at speed, this book will help you acquire the knowledge and confidence to get the most from your time on the water.

The examples bring concepts to life and methods are adapted to what is realistically achievable in an open powerboat.

Chapters include:

• Safety and Planning
• Travelling at Speed
• Challenging Conditions
• Boating at Night and in Restricted
• Cruising in a Powerboat

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This section is for people wanting to teach, the RYA Powerboat Scheme.

This scheme can be taught in a variety of small open powerboats such as RIBs, dories and sportsboats and is aimed at a variety of users from casual leisure boaters to professional small boat skippers. As an instructor you will therefore need to have experience in a variety of boats and situations.

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Advanced Powerboat Instructor

Duration: 2 days plus an evening

Time: Usually 9am to 5pm plus night exercise

Group Size: 3 per boat

Min Age: From 17

Price: £323 to £340

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Advanced Powerboat Instructor - General

A two day endorsement to the RYA Powerboat Instructor qualification to allow the Instructor to teach the Intermediate and Advanced courses and to undertake Own Boat Training outside a school’s operating area.

Course Duration

2 days from 9am to 5pm plus an evening

Instructor to Student Ratio

3 students to 1 RYA Powerboat Trainer

Entry requirements

To attend this course you must possess the following qualifications:

• Be a RYA Powerboat Instructor
• Possess your RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate
• Pass the RYA/MCA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence examination, the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Coastal (Power) Certificate of Competence or the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore (Power) Certificate of Competence.

To teach as an Advanced Powerboat Instructor you must also:

• Hold a valid commercial endorsement on one of these Certificates of Competence

If you achieved your commercial endorsement by holding a pre 2005 Advanced Certificate please contact us.

We would also suggest:

• Whilst not a prerequisite you are recommended to hold the RYA Yachtmaster theory qualification. As a minimum you must have an equivalent level of knowledge.
• You have considerable boating experience in a range of conditions, across a variety of boats in various locations
• You have considerable night boating experience to the extent that i) You can safely manage a boat anywhere at night ii) Teach others how to do it
• The ability to explain any aspect of the Advanced Course with ease as defined by the syllabus.
• You are a very experienced instructor with experience of delivering many Level 2 courses.

Why choose Powerboat Training UK for your RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor endorsement?

The key thing that we can bring to a course is our considerable experience of training Powerboat and Advanced Powerboat Instructors across the world. The Trainers that run our courses (usually led by Paul Glatzel – author of the RYA Powerboat Handbook & RYA Advanced Powerboat Handbook) run a considerable number of these courses each year and are 100% on top of what is recommended as ‘best practice’ ensuring that those they train are really well placed to then run courses once qualified. As a busy commercial centre we can also offer the chance to come in ahead of a course and sit in with our instructor team on an Advanced course (no charge) which is really beneficial if you can do so.

Our boats ~ with 7.8m Ribcrafts as our main teaching boats we have invested considerably so that you get to use quality kit in great condition. Each RIB is fully equipped for training up to Advanced Instructor level and are fitted with Icom and Raymarine/Garmin electronics.

Our location and teaching facilities ~ Poole Harbour is a truly amazing teaching location – so much so that the RNLI and the Royal Marines base their training operations here. Our classrooms are well resourced, professional, clean and tidy.

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.

Our Powerboat Trainers The RYA Powerboat Trainers that we work with are highly experienced and deliver many instructor courses each year. They stay 100% in line with current best practice so we can be sure that our Instructor courses are amongst the best there are.

Our history ~ We started the school over ten years ago and have grown a reputation for delivering on our promises. Our clients range from individuals with their own craft to organisations such as Sunseeker, the RNLI and we were awarded the RYA Training contract by Dorset Police for the London 2012 Olympic events in Weymouth.

We are also very proud to have written the RYA Powerboat Handbook for the RYA and 2014 saw the launch of the RYA Advanced Powerboat Handbook.

Course prices The higher price quoted in the ‘Key Course Details’ section above is the price per head for 1 person, for 2 persons the per head cost reduces by 2.5% and for three people by 5%. The price shown is inclusive of VAT.

What is included in the course price? ~ when you undertake your APBI Course on our boats then the price you pay includes fuel and free use of waterproofs/lifejackets – if required. Price includes VAT too.

Does the course price represent good value? ~ remember in life you pretty much get what you pay for. We don’t pretend to be the cheapest but the course will be on well maintained first rate craft, and run by trainers guaranteed to teach current best practice. We have great facilities in a large marina offering a great all-round experience. Check out the other relevant pages on this website to see what we mean.

We also would hope that by attending a course at Powerboat Training UK you will be viewed as an instructor who has trained at one of the centres most respected for delivering high quality career enhancing instructor courses.

Advanced Powerboat Instructor - The Course

The Advanced Powerboat Instructor Endorsement seeks to ensure the potential APBI has the experience, knowledge and competence to teach the Advanced and Intermediate courses. At the same time the endorsement ensures that you know exactly what to teach against all the subject areas of these courses.

The course looks at:

• Are you at the right standard to be able to teach these courses both in respect of practical experience/capability and theoretical knowledge. It does this through on the water practice, discussions on all of the sessions that are run and the planning and execution of a night exercise.
• What are the key teaching points relating to the Intermediate and Advanced Courses.
• How to structure these courses to best effect.

Whereas the PBI course addresses how to teach and a good amount of time is spent on the water practicing teaching the sessions, on the APBI course we tend to either spend time on the water undertaking the sessions or discussing the structure and content of the course.

You will be asked to prepare and teach one or more of the sessions as a means to create a discussion amongst the group on that particular subject. You should be ready to deliver any of the sessions of the intermediate or advanced courses.

As with any course there is a need to demonstrate that you have the required knowledge and competences to be recommended for the award of the Endorsement.

Your Course Trainer

In all likelihood your Course RYA Powerboat Trainer will be Paul Glatzel. Paul has been a Trainer for about 10 years and runs or moderates roughly 25 – 30 Instructor Courses each year. Paul is the Author of the RYA Powerboat Handbook and the RYA Advanced Powerboat Handbook and is also a contributor to the book Heavy Weather Powerboating by Adlard Coles.

Paul trains both leisure and professional powerboaters around the world and in the UK and has completed the Round Britain RIB Rally in a 9m RIB and circumnavigated Ireland in Top Hat our motor cruiser as part of the Round Ireland Challenge to complete his full trip around the UK and Ireland.

If Paul were absent then a Trainer of a comparable level of experience would run the course.

What materials do I need before the course?

You should possess the most current versions of:

• RYA Powerboat Logbook (Ref G20)
• RYA Power Schemes Instructors Handbook (Ref G19)
• RYA Start Powerboating (Ref G48)
• RYA Powerboat Handbook (Ref G13)
• RYA Advanced Powerboat Handbook (G108)

Advanced Powerboat Instructor - Syllabus

The syllabus for the Advanced Powerboat Instructor’s Endorsement is defined in the Power Schemes Instructor Handbook. The course content includes how to train and coach the following aspects:

• Practical boat handling in a variety of situations
• Daytime navigation, theory and practical
• Navigating in darkness, theory and practical
• Lesson and programme planning
• Meteorology
• Collision regulations, theory and practical application
• Use of engines – including twin engine installations
• Emergency situations -including search patterns and helicopter rescue
• Boat and crew ‘management’ both day and night
• Effective delivery of all aspects of the RYA Advanced Powerboat course

During the course the trainer will be looking for the following to be demonstrated by the candidate :

• A well-developed awareness of safety in all aspects of powerboating
• A thorough knowledge of the activity
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to design stimulating and challenging exercises for potential students
• Being ‘in-charge’ of any given situation or exercise whilst allowing students to develop their own leadership skills in a supportive environment
• Ability to assess students strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to deliver effective feedback in an encouraging, sympathetic and supportive manner

Advanced Powerboat Instructor - Reviews

Whatever we may think of our courses what really counts is what others think, below are a selection of comments taken directly from the Feedback Forms that we ask are filled in at the end of each course and the emails that we receive post course.

I am still struggling to express without sounding trite just how impressed I was with the course and your whole organisation. From the obvious pride you take in the school’s boats to your commitment to getting the highest possible standards both in courses you deliver and the courses delivered by those you train to instruct. I had high expectations, and they were exceeded in so many areas. Andrew

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Hopefully the dates that we have scheduled work well with your availability. If the dates don’t quite work then we are always keen to be as flexible as possible so please contact us and we’ll see what we can do.

We’re always really keen to chat to you when you’re booking a course as whilst we are happy to take bookings through this system for your convenience – nothing beats chatting about boats and courses!

Don’t forget too that if you are an individual or company/organisation booking a few people onto courses then we may be able to schedule dates around you. Equally, for bookings some time in the future we can usually juggle our course dates if what we have scheduled doesn’t quite work for you.

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RYA Power Schemes Instructor Handbook

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The RYA Power Schemes Instructor Handbook comprehensively covers the entire process of training as an RYA Power Instructor.

It includes information on the whole RYA Power Scheme, the instructing qualifications available through the RYA and the methods required to teach each of the courses, including inland waterways and personal watercraft

This is a valuable reference, full of top tips and information about how people learn.

This edition includes full-colour illustrations, photographs and a logbook to record instructing activity and qualifications.

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