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Power Boat Courses in Ireland

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Ring +353 (0)28 21745, or
Email contact@irishwatersports.ie
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Powerboating Courses

Irish Water Sports have teamed up with Aquaventures to provide the following powerboat courses (with a minimum of 3 students required on each course, scheduled to suit your time table). Jerry Smith is the senior instructor with over 40 years powerboating experience and teaching courses under the RYA and ISA for more than 30 years.

Introduction to Powerboating

1 day course - No experience necessary.
The aim of this course is to provide a short practical introduction to boat preparation, launching, recovery, handling skills and manoeuvres and basic rules using powerboats on all Irish waters. It is ideally suited to anyone new to powerboating and those whose primary role will be as crew on a powerboat. By the end of the course participants will be able to safely and effectively crew a powerboat and take the helm while under supervision.
€190.00

National Powerboat Certificate

2 day course (15 to 18 hrs) - Already some experience running power-boats or Powerboat Level I completed and wishing to further your boat-handling skills and knowledge.
Further training after Level 1 (or combining level 1 and 2 in one go) with theory and practical experience of handling powerboats with an insight into the safe use of such craft on coastal and inland waters, the equipment they should carry and a knowledge of the aspects of seamanship, tides and weather, anchoring, mooring, man overboard drill, engines and drives, buoyage and rules of the road.
€310.00

National Powerboat Certificate (Assessment only)

The certificate can also be achieved through direct assessment of practical skills and theory paper for those with plenty of experience running powerboats.
€150.00

Safety Boat Certificate

2 day course - the ISA recommends this certificate as the minimum level of training/knowledge required by the coxswains of boats providing safety cover at Clubs, Regattas, Coaching or courses of Instruction.
Techniques and skills used in powerboats such as escorting racing fleets of dinghies, wind surfers and canoes; providing safety and rescue cover for training fleets; towing; mark laying; assisting in race management duties.
€330.00

Advanced Powerboat Certificate

2 day course - participants must have ISA Level 2 or equivalent with good working knowledge and skills of navigation, rules of the road. (Day skipper Shore Based Certificate standard) VHF Certificate and First Aid Certificate are also strongly recommended.
By the end of this course, the successful participant will have a sound introduction to using fast open boats at sea. An essentially practical course equipping experienced boat users with the tools necessary to take fast open boats like RIBs on coastal passages, this course covers skills ranging from advanced boat handling (high speeds), seamanship, pilotage and navigation by day and night, heavy weather handling, meteorology and tides and emergency situations
€330.00

Diver Coxswain Certificate

2 day course - Participants must hold the ISA National Powerboat Certificate or equivalent. It is strongly recommended to hold a first aid certificate and Short Range (SRC) VHF radio operator’s certificate.
This course introduces and develops the skills necessary to take charge of a powerboat that is deploying and recovering divers on inland and coastal dive sites, by day, on waters with which the coxswain is familiar. It is not a diving course, as the divers the coxswains are transporting and deploying should be responsible for the planning and implementation of all in and underwater activities.
€330.00

Coastal Navigation for Small Boats

1 day course (or 3 evenings) - Participants must hold either • ISA National Powerboat Certificate (open powerboats) • ISA Improving Skills Certificate (sailing dinghies, keelboats or catamarans) • ISA Competent Crew Certificate (sailing yachts) • ISA Helmsman Certificate (motor yachts).
The aim of this course is to provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to safely navigate a boat by day and by night in coastal waters with which you are familiar. It is intended as preparation for either the ISA Advanced Sailing Certificate (sailing dinghies, keelboats or catamarans) or ISA Advanced Powerboat Certificate (open powerboats). Subjects include chart work, instruments, plotting, buoyage, lights, tide and tidal vectors, position fixing, etc.
€155.00

Please Note
Age Restrictions - The ISA recommends that no one under the age of sixteen years should be left in charge of any powerboat without appropriate adult supervision.
Under Irish law it is illegal for anyone under the age of sixteen to operate a powerboat that is capable of 17 knots or more. Aquaventures and Irish Water Sports do not offer powerboat training courses to anyone under sixteen years old.

For more details:
Ring +353 (0)28 21745, or
Email contact@irishwatersports.ie
Go to our Watersports Courses Enquiry Form

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