RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam

RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam fee and vessel charter fee.

Description

For those of you that wish to use your RYA Advanced Powerboat qualification to work commercially, or for financial gain you will need to have it applied to a commercial endorsement.

The RYA Advanced Powerboat "Course Completion Certificate" cannot be used for commercial endorsement purposes. You need to obtain the "RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence" via successfully passing an RYA Advanced Powerboat Exam.

This course can be attended at one of our training centres in either Kinlochleven in the Scottish Highlands or at James Watt Dock Marina in Greenock, just west of Glasgow on the Clyde Estuary.

As part of completing your RYA Advanced Powerboat course with iPowerboat, we can source an examiner for you to make things easier.

Prerequisites

Minimum Sea Time: 

Documented minimum sea time completed on a seagoing powerboat in the last 10 years:

  • 30 days at sea, which may be reduced to 20 days at sea if an RYA Advanced Powerboat course completion certificate is held;
  • 2 days as skipper;
  • 800 miles, which may be reduced to 400 miles if an RYA Advanced Powerboat Course completion certificate is held;
  • 12 night hours. 

Before you book your exam please check that you:

  1. can provide a boat
  2. have completed the required mileage and experience as skipper
  3. hold a VHF Radio Operators License or Short Range Certificate
  4. hold a valid first aid certificate
  5. have read the syllabus in RYA publication G20
  6. have read and comply with the pre-requisites above.

 

Background Knowledge:

Knowledge to the level of Yachtmaster Offshore theory

 

Certification Required:

  1. A GMDSS compliant Marine Radio Operator's Certificate such as the RYA Short Range Certificate or higher.
  2. An RYA First Aid Certificate or another valid first aid certificate, as detailed on the RYA website.
  3. Advanced Powerboat course completion certificate ONLY IF claiming reduced sea time detailed above.
  4. Photographic ID card or document, such as passport or driving license

 

Minimum Age:

17 years old.

 

Candidates should be familiar with all the equipment on board the vessel, as they may be asked to use this during the examination.

If you need your Certificate of Competence in order to work on board a commercial craft subject the MCA's codes of practice, you will need to get it commercially endorsed.