Training Courses in 2025
Training opportunities for the rest of 2025
- RYA First Aid - November 22nd
- RYA Power Boat Level 2 - November 26th (evening) 29th, 30th
For more details on each of the above, please see below
RYA First Aid
The RYA one-day course covers all the usual first aid subjects, but from a boating perspective. It is aimed at anyone who goes afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross-channel passages.
In a medical emergency, a little first aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives, especially in remote locations. This one-day course is designed to provide a working knowledge of first aid for people using small craft and to support skippers.
It fulfils the requirements for:
- professional skippers working under the Maritime and Coastguard Agency Codes of Practice for Small Vessels Operated Commercially;
The Senior First Aid certificate needed by offshore racers subject to World Sailing's regulations on first aid training (OSR 4.08.4);
The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations, 1981, for the purposes of Emergency First Aid at Work.
The subjects specific to boating include:
- The recovery position in a confined space
- CPR, including the drowning protocol
- cold shock and hypothermia from immersion and/or exposure
- seasickness and dehydration
- medical assistance or advice by VHF
- helicopter rescue
Booking and more information are available here
RYA Level 2 Power Boat Handling
Provides the skills and background knowledge needed by the competent powerboat driver and is the basis of the International Certificate of Competence.
It aims to teach boat handling and seamanship in powerboats. It focuses on:
- low speed close quarters handling
- man overboard recovery
- An introduction to driving at planing speed
- collision regulations.
The Wednesday evening session will concentrate on covering some of the theory subjects, and the Saturday and Sunday sessions will concentrate on the on the water skills.
No experience required
Booking and more information are available here
