The RYA Powerboat instructor skills assessment was implemented in 2008 to reduce the number of candidates not passing the RYA Powerboat instructor course due to a lack of skills and/or background theory knowledge. This assessment must be passed prior to being able to attend the Instructor course.
You will be expected to beable to perform and have a good knowledge all of the skills below, though you may not be assessed on all of them:
Practical Skills:
The candidate should beable to safely and confidently demonstrate all the practical skills below:
- Pre-start checks & starting procedures
- Practical Application of IRPCS
- Holding Off
- Picking up & securing to a Mooring Buoy
- Man Overboard - Drive On Method
- Man Overboard - Drift On Method
- Turning in a confined space
- Departing & Coming Alongside into the elements
- Departing & Coming Alongside with the elements
- Turning on a Warp
- Springing on and off
- Planing Speed
Theory Knowledge:
The candidate should be able to explain the subjects below in great depth:
- Appropriate Personal Safety Kit & it's uses
- Appropriate Powerboat Safety kit & it's uses
- Cold Shock & Immersion Hypothermia
- IRPCS (rules 5, 7, 8, 9, 12-18)
- Charts & Chart Symbols
- Buoyage
- Tides & Tidal Streams
- Use & Limitations of GPS/Chart Plotters
- Pilotage & Passage Planning
- Hull Types & Engines Drives
- Anchor Types & Uses
- Issuing a DSC Distress & Mayday call