Description
The RYA Powerboat Instructor Skills Assessment is a mandatory step before embarking on your Power Boat Instructor Course. This assessment will test your boat handling skills and your theory
What do I need to be able to demonstrate?
- Hold off a mark
- Pick up and secure to a buoy
- Moor alongside up/down-tide
- Turn using warps
- Turn in a confined space
- Recover a man overboard (mannequin)
- Stop and start the engine
- Planing speed runs, including figure 8 and ‘U’ turns
- Theory including charts, tides, buoyage, colregs and pilotage
Who is this assessment ideal for?
The RYA Powerboat Instructor Skills Assessment is aimed at those who would like to teach Powerboat 1 & 2 and safety boat courses at a registered RYA training centre.
Prerequisites
It is assumed that candidates should be competent as a minimum to the standard of Level 2 (including the coastal endorsement) and will be required to demonstrate a range of practical and theoretical skills and knowledge from any aspect of the RYA Powerboat Level 2 Syllabus.
Other criteria include:
- Candidates should have logged at least five seasons of experience in powerboating, preferably in a range of boat types and sizes
- For those who use powerboats as an integral part of their normal full-time occupation, this period is reduced to one season
- Candidates will hold the RYA National Powerboat Certificate (Level 2) and a valid First Aid Certificate of a type approved by the RYA. For more details on acceptable First Aid qualifications see here
- Instructors wishing to teach the Safety Boat course must hold that level of certificate themselves
- It is recommended that attendees hold a VHF/SRC operators certificate
