How to become a powerboat instructor?
Powerboat Instructor Course Syllabus:
- The Instructors Role
- RYA Scheme
- Introduction to the syllabus
- Running the ‘perfect’ session
- Briefing & Debriefing Skills
- Course Planning
- Teaching Level 2 Practical Sessions
- Shorebased Teaching Skills
Practical Sessions:
- Personal Safety Kit
- Introduction to the powerboat & safety kit
- Launching
- Pre-start checks & Starting Procedures
- Familiarisation
- Holding Off
- Picking up a Mooring
- Man Overboard (Drive On Method) + Cold Shock / Hypothermia / Distress Communications
- Coming Alongside & Departing
- Springing on / off
- Turning on a Warp
- Turning in a confined Space
- Anchoring
- Use of a compass
- Man Overboard (Drift On Method)
- Planing Speed
- Recovery
Theory Sessions:
- Weather
- Tides & Tidal Streams
- Introduction to Charts & Important Symbols • Buoyage
- IRPCS & Byelaws
- EmergencyActions
- Pilotage & Passage Planning
- Use & Limitations of GPS / Chart Plotters