Motor Conversion

Aim

Practical training to add key motor yachting skills to existing sailing experience in order to gain a commercially recognised motor yacht qualification

Duration

5 days

Course Overview

Professional skippers holding professional-level power and sail qualifications can make swift progress in their careers aboard both sail and motor yachts. This programme enables students attending our Commercial Yachtmaster Training programme to convert their sailing experience into a commercially recognised RYA/MCA Coastal Skipper Power qualification.

Pre-requisite experience

Required mileage and experience requirements for RYA Coastal Skipper or RYA Yachtmaster (power) (1)

Syllabus:

The programme concentrates on the different handling characteristics of motor vessels, including:

• Use of bow thrusters and manoeuvring with twin engines
• High speed navigation and pilotage
• Boat handling in close quarters and in a variety of weather conditions
• Coming to and weighing anchor, picking up and leaving a mooring buoy
• Night time navigation
• Recovery of man overboard

Qualifications

Successful candidates will gain the following qualifications, dependant on their pre-requisite experience:

• RYA/MCA Yachtmaster (Offshore) Power 1 or RYA/MCA Coastal Skipper Power

Notes

1. Assessment for RYA Yachtmaster power requires a minimum of 50 days logged at sea. Half of this can be taken from time onboard sailing vessels. Candidates wanting to be assessed for their RYA Yachtmaster will therefore be required to demonstrate 20 days sea time onboard motor vessels in addition to the 5 days gained during the conversion course.
   
   Candidates for RYA/MCA Yachtmaster (Offshore) Power must have logged 1,250 miles in a power vessel, including three passages of 60 miles of which one must be overnight and one skippered, before starting this course. Students without the pre-requisite experience for Yacht Master will be entered for RYA/MCA Coastal Skipper Power.
   
   Motor Yacht Conversion is included in the Ocean Graduate Plus and Yachting Cadetship programmes.