Course Details
RYA Advanced Powerboat courses are taught on a 3:1 basis, that means 3 participants and 1 Instructor.
£355.00 Per person.
At the bottom of this page is a Book and Pay facility, when you use it you will receive a receipt and course booking confirmation, all by email - 24/7.
Course Duration | 2 Days 1 Evening |
Times | First day 09.00 - 21.30 or later - Seasonal Dependent. Second day 09.30 - 16.30 |
Previous experience | Participants should be competent to the standard of the Intermediate Powerboat Certificate with a thorough knowledge of navigation and chartwork to the level of RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Theory. It is strongly recommended that candidates hold a first aid certificate and a VHF operators certificate. |
Minimum age | 17 Years old |
Assessment | Continuous assessment |
Certification | On a successful completion of the course an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course Completion Certificate will be issued. You will need to provide a current passport sized photo of yourself. |
Clothing | Please bring suitable warm clothing to wear (under our free to use Musto GORE-TEX MPX waterproofs) also a hat, gloves, sun screen, and appropriate wellies / shoes - that may get wet, all appropriate for the time of year. |
Lifejackets | We will provide Lifejackets. If you would like to wear your own Lifejacket please ensure that its serviceability is in date and is fitted with a light. |
Refreshment | We provide tea and coffee that you can make yourself. |
Lunch/Evening meal | Please bring lunches, drinks and a snack/meal for the evening of the first day |
Parking. Fuel for the Powerboat. | Parking is Free. Fuel for the Powerboat is all in the Total course fee of £355.00. VAT Is not charged |
Course Fee | £355.00. Book and pay On Line. A minimum of 2 bookings are required to run this course, call us to see if we have someone else who would also like to do this course |
Venue Location | Tec Rec Coaching. Southampton Dry Stack Boatyard. 146 Millbank Street. Southampton. SO14 5QN. What Three Words. banks anyone enter |

Course Information
A hands on driving and navigating course for day and night.
The Southampton Rivers Test and Itchen along with Southampton Water and the River Hamble, and we haven't even got to the Solent yet, provide a superb location for learning and practicing different forms of navigation.
Only 3 to a course allows you all to take turns at navigating, driving, and reviewing, in the moment.
Using our Coded Twin engine RIB, it has Shock Mitigation seats, the latest Garmin Touchscreen Chartplotters a 12 inch and a 9 inch, Power Steering and the latest Garmin Fantom RADAR.
Passage Planning and Pilotage, interpretation of Navigation at different speeds, along with IRPCS, using all available means will be the main feature topped up with the remaining parts of the RYA Advanced Powerboat course syllabus.
Other supportive courses:- RYA First Aid Course RYA VHF/SRC Course

Course Content
The aim of the course is to teach boat handling, seamanship, pilotage and navigation up to the standards required to drive a planing powerboat safely by day and night in tidal coastal waters with which the candidate may be familiar.
Preparation for sea
Boat handling
Passage making and responsibility as skipper
Pilotage
Meteorology
Rules of the Road
Use of engines
Emergency situations
Night cruising

Navigation Development
A full programme of navigation development, shaking off some of those bad habits, focusing on day and night Pilotage and Passage Planning.
The Rivers - Itchen, Test, Hamble, Medina and of course Southampton Water and the Solent hold a vast amount of learning opportunities to work on navigation and boat handling.
Building on the skills learned from the RYA Intermediate Powerboat course there will be sessions on improving navigation skills ashore and afloat leading to completing a day time passage and a night time passage taking in all aspects of the course learned so far.
Constant debriefs on learning development.
Check out the RYA Advanced Powerboat course syllabus in the Downloads section below

Electronic Chart Passage Planning and
Pilotage
Using the Garmin 'ActiveCaptain' App which is installed on our classroom Apple ipads, learn how to construct a Waypoint Passage Plan in the classroom on the iPad then take it to the the Powerboat and transfer the Passage Plan wirelessly direct to both of the Chartplotters on the Powerboat, the iPad is now no longer needed.
RADAR Operation.
Using the latest Garmin Fantom RADAR see how EBL, VRM, and MARPA functions help the navigator interpret between other vessels, fixed objects and whether the vessels are coming towards you or heading away from you.

Extra Passage Planning and
Night Driving Session
Currently we are providing an additional Passage Planning and Night Driving session the day before the RYA Advanced Powerboat course starts so that you can familiarise yourself with the area, the Powerboat, Chartplotters, RADAR as well as the local waters.
The session will commence the day before the RYA Advanced Powerboat course.
You will be able to produce a waypoint Passage Plan using Conventional Charts and Digital Charts whilst familiarising yourself with the Garmin Fantom RADAR on the water.
RYA Advanced Powerboat Prep Webpage:- Click Here.
RYA/MCA Advanced Powerboat CoC Prep & Exam Webpage:- Click Here.
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Downloads |
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RYA Advanced Powerboat Day and Night course.docx |
Venues & Dates | |||||
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• Tec Rec Coaching - Southampton | 3 of 3 places available | Sun 23rd - Mon 24th March | |||
Two bookings and the course runs, contact us if you are a single booking as we may have another single booking enquiry that would make the course viable to run.
2025 Dates. |