Imparting Exhilarating Excitement With Motor Cruising With The Right Training

By Author: Davion Brite
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Be it a powerboat or speedboat, the thrill brings people back to the coast to drive on one of these motorboats. Especially during vacations, people are highly interested to have a thumping ride across the coastal waves. The power with which these boats cruise through the waters can make the rides quite bumpy for people not experienced or well trained. There are smaller open powerboats as well as larger motorboats and are used to cruise in the shore waters for less distance. Due to their outboard placed engines and lack of accommodation facilities, they cannot be driven far off into the sea and hence, the control and cruising have to be learnt the practical way.

• Fun way of learning through RYA certified courses in motor cruising and powerboats

Driving a powerboat and motorboat is real fun, which should also be the principle behind the training programs. The RYA or Royal Yacht Association allows the students to take up practical training to as far extent as possible, with initial instructions and theories. Motor cruising is mostly about control and balance of the vessel in the water. For all sizes of these boats, ...
... the venturing into far off seas is not the important lesson, which is the case with yacht or sailboat. Instead, one has to be competent enough to understand the vessel by handling it and then learn different techniques to move it around the water. So, the lesson planning for RYA powerboat course is done in such a way that one can easily cruise around in a small powerboat or Rigid Inflatable Boats or the larger motorboats.

• Training imparted with gradual shift in difficulty levels

With minimum amount of shorebased lesson, the training for motor cruising is shifted into the powerboats. So, the practical training sessions are spread over a number of days, gradually increasing the level of difficulty. It is therefore up to the learner to go till the expertise one seeks. The levels are spread over a period of few days, where something more and advanced lesson is provided, mostly inclusive of practical training in the real boats on the water. So, the longer one learns the lessons, the better it is for him or her to venture out in larger boats.

• Initial course work is more about basics, with later stress on the difficult levels of powerboat training

In the initial part of the RYA powerboat course, the concentration of learning would be on preparing a boat before the ride, starting and buoying in the water, handling the boat at slower and then faster speeds and safety rules. Gradually, on the second and third day, the techniques of handling are taught in greater details covering broader areas, because this is also a starter level course.

With the initial experience training, the intermediate and advanced levels of motor cruising are taught in the powerboats. These are also each for 2 days, with information on navigational skills, passage planning, using GPS, collision regulations, skippering techniques and even night time navigation towards the end of the course. Rough water handling, helicopter rescue, signalling and transmissions are also found in these later parts of the total course period. After the 7-8 day course is completed, one is competent enough to go for ICC certification and can continue surfing the waters for better experience.

Davion Brite is associated with 5 Star Marine which is based in Southampton. RYA powerboat course has been on offer and training by 5 Star Marine, so that the interested boat riders can have their own boats for motor cruising and enjoy their rides on the water.