RYA Powerboat Level 2
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A beginners course, ideal for those looking to make short daytime trips in powerboats, or those wanting to develop safe driving and handling skills in small motor craft.
The course covers both theory and practical work, including launching and recovery, boat handling under way (including high speed), anchoring, coming alongside, man overboard, disabled craft, leaving and returning to pontoons, basic navigation, collision prevention regulations, boat design, engines and drives.
Pre-requisite experience:
Duration:
None
1 Weekend
Qualifications:
RYA Powerboat Level 2 Certification
What's included:
Dates and price:
Includes all food and accommodation
Click hereRYA Powerboat Level 2 course syllabus
Launching and recovery
- Use of a trailer or launch trolley
- Consideration of launching and sea conditions, including hazards and obstructions
- Number of persons required to launch/recover
- Construction, width and condition of slipway
- Steep/slippery slipways, beach launching, lee shores
- Care of trailer bearings, hitch, lashings, ties, lights and winch
- Trailer parking
- Prepare the boat, lines, fenders, safety equipment, fuel tanks, lines and secure gear on board
Boat handling
- Loading: effect on handling and performance, effect on balance and trim, CE plate and manufacturer's reccommendation
- Displacement boats: handling ahead and astern, carrying way
- Crew members: minimum number in high speed craft, keeping a look out
- Awareness of other water users, including effect of wash
- Steering, controls, effect of current or tidal stream
- High speed manoeuvring: planning, trim tabs and power trim
- Planning boats: propeller angle and immersion, shallow drive, high/low speed handling, tiller/console steering
- Carry out pre-start checks, engine starting and stopping
- Demonstrate the use of an appropriate length kill cord at all times
- Carry out low speed manoeuvres including s-turns and u-yurns
Securing to a buoy
- Preparation of mooring warp
- Use of a boat hook
- Method of approach
- Crew communication
- Making fast
- Procedure when overshooting
- Approach and secure to a buoy
Anchoring
- Method of approach in various conditions
- Taking way off
- Crew communication
- Check holding
- Depth of water, holding ground, scope required
- Types of anchor
- Stowage and attachment to boat
- Preparation of anchor, chain and warp
- Weighing anchor
- Approach and anchor correctly
- Weigh anchor correctly
Leaving and coming alongside
- Preparation and use of painter, lines and fenders, attachment to boat, stowage underway
- Speed and angle of approach
- Wind affect
- Method of approach in tidal stream or current
- Make fast alongside
- Use springs
- Leave - ahead or astern
Man overboard
- Take immediate action
- Observe the man overboard
- Carry out the correct return with awareness of propeller
- Approach and recover the man in the water
Theory
- Types of craft: advantages and disadvantages of different hull forms with respect to sea keeping ability
- Engines and drives: advantages and disadvantages of outboard, inboard and outdrive units, single and twin screws, choice and use of fuels
- Siting of fuel tanks, fuel lines, batteries, wiring, fire extinguishers
- Routine engine maintenance checks, basic fault diagnosis
- Close down procedure
- Advice to inland drivers about coastal waters
- Use and limitations of GPS
- Application of local bylaws, especially around commercial shipping
- Sources of weather information
- Awareness of other water users
- Communication with other craft
- Disabled craft
- Emergency action - preventing sinking
- Adrift - alternative means of propulsion
- Towing and being towed
- Fire precautions and fire fighting
- Ropework
- Distress signals and the mayday call
- Apply IRPCS
Coastal
- Pilotage and passage planning
- Charts, chart symbols, buoyage systems
- Tides and tidal streams
- Use steering and hand bearing
