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RYA313 RYA Powerboat Level 2

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RYA powerboat courses are primarily for those using small powered craft such as RIBs, dories and sportsboats that don't generally undertake long or offshore passages.

We offer the only RYA powerboat training in the South Island.

In two days or less, you will learn all you need to know to build your powerboat skills and basic competence.

The skills you'll learn will start with identifying maritime conditions and progress to the powerboat's driving, mooring and anchoring.

You will also learn how to judge your capabilities and those of the craft.

The types of commercial craft requiring this level of certification include superyachts, charter fishing boats, small passenger launches, thrill-ride operators, harbour patrol launches, construction site safety boats and more.

If you will be using larger boats with accommodation and the capacity to cruise or work further offshore, you will need a certificate as a Day Skipper (external link) , Coastal Skipper , or  Skipper Restricted Limits .

No pre-course experience or knowledge is necessary.

You need to be 15 in New Zealand for the Level 2 Powerboat Handling course but a commercial endorsement cannot be obtained until the age of 17.

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Online Boating Course For New Zealand

This is a demonstration from Powerboat Training New Zealand’s next generation of boating courses, which is fully interactive and able to be completed online. If you don’t have time to sit in the classroom, this is a great way to get an internationally recognised qualification.

First, let’s look at what modules are included in the course of the first main charts and publications which help you become familiar with all the charts which we should be carried onboard, followed by a “Buoyage” and “Buoyage Recognition”. The next module on the course is “Navigation”.  After navigation, you are working your way through safety and the safety equipment that every vessel should carry and what you should have on board on your boat. And then ‘Anchoring’, and there is lot more to anchoring than people realise, which is all covered in the course followed by ‘Tides’ and tidal calculations. Also in the course, electronic navigation so you become familiar with your GPS and it’s safe operation.

Rules of the road are covered on the course, so you understand your liabilities out on the water, followed by weather, so you will be able to make those go/no-go decisions. Also on the courses is ‘Pilotage’ as you come in and out of harbours, followed by passage planning when you go further afield.

All modules are presented and animated in an interactive way, which makes learning more fun and memorable. So unlike textbooks, which are all about passive learning, your interaction with this course well really help you remember, as most people remember more by doing and becoming involved as opposed to simply reading about it. Videos are also incorporated into the modules a step-by-step guide such as and engine instruction video. This video shows a small example of the Buoyage module. Later in the section is the interactive phase which reinforces and assesses your understanding. For other module such as ‘Weather’ we use simple graphics to help demonstrate and give you a good understanding of the subject.

Each module comprises three sections. We have ‘Learn it” which gives you all the required information you need. Then the ‘Try it’ section gets you to implement your understanding and really have a go. Then finally the ‘Test it’ section reinforces your understanding. This is a proven cognitive format which is designed as the most efficient and friendly modern learning technique.

Other bonuses of doing this course is that you will be allocated a personal tutor and while you may not need them, we’re always going to be here to help and we can be contacted by phone, email or Skype.

This course has been designed by RYA in the UK. If you don’t know who the RYA are, they are a huge international boating organisation that have a growing presence in New Zealand in addition to being in existence for over 50 years in many other countries worldwide.

This means that these courses and the qualifications are recognised in many countries around the world which are the New Zealand qualifications such as the “day skipper” currently aren’t.

If you’re interested in making a booking, check out their website on www.powerboat-training.co.nz

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Powerboat fans in for swell time off Napier

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An offshore powerboat racer has no qualms in tackling Napier’s Offshore 100 despite having a boat wrecked in the notorious conditions.

Mike Gerbic returns on Saturday for the country’s longest-surviving powerboat race, which starts at 11am.

The Napier event, which attracts mainly Queen’s City racers, is being revived after a three-year lapse caused by Covid-19.

Gerbic recalls hitting the swells on the race’s back leg - from off Napier Port, towards Bay View - about six years ago.

When the boat rounded the north point to head south along Westshore Beach, the hull “delaminated”.

After limping back to race headquarters in Napier’s inner harbour, an inspection revealed its racing days were over.

“Over. Off to the tip,” Gerbic told Hawke’s Bay Today , as he looked forward to racing the latest vintage of Espresso Engineers team boats.

As the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Association focuses on Napier to get its annual drivers’ championship series moving again, Gerbic is back, undaunted, and says: ”The swells were four metres one year”.

The Napier race hasn’t taken place since 2020 , but it has a history dating back to the 1970s.

Other races are on sheltered courses such as Lake Taupo, or harbours or firths.

The Hawke’s Bay challenge attracts racers as it is regarded - as a prominent driver once said - as the “only true offshore race in the series”.

Large catamarans of more than 14 metres, from as far as Australia, had raced in the past, but the current fleet is limited to about 10 metres.

NZPBA president Paul Greenfield says Napier, race five in a six-race series this year, is one of three the association is keen to foster, because of the history, and conditions.

The crews arrive in Napier on Friday and will be based at the Hawke’s Bay Sports Fishing Club, with the boats parked for public viewing on the neighbouring reserve.

The racing is best watched from Westshore, from the points at the entrance to the inner harbour, the Hardinge Rd foreshore and the sweep towards the port entrance.

Among the fleet is Red Steel, raced by now retired Napier racer and former national drivers champion Tony Carson , who also raced with Auckland-based brother Wayne Carson .

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