Advanced Powerboat Certificate

The aim of the Advanced Powerboat Certificate course is to develop boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation skills up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day in all coastal waters and by night in coastal waters with which you are familiar. The course lasts 25 hours, this includes a night pilotage exercise. Course content includes:

• Boat preparation
• Basic boat handling
• Weather
• Navigation
• Passage planning
• Passage making
• Coastal knowledge
• Rules of the Road
• Boat types
• Safety
• Care of boats and equipment

All practical elements are performed as a skipper on a powerboat.

Course material follows the Irish Sailing syllabus.

Qualification: The Irish Sailing’s Advanced Powerboat Certificate