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    RYA Powerboat Level 2 Course Syllabus

    The purpose of this course is to teach boat handling and seamanship in powerboats. The course may be conducted in a variety of
    boat types, both planning and displacement, and the certificate issued will be endorsed to show the type(s) of boat in which the
    training took place.

    Course Duration: 2 days

    PRACTICAL – Section A
    Launching and Recovery

    Knowledge of:

    • Use of a trailer or launching trolley

    • Consideration of launching and sea conditions, including hazards and obstructions.

    • Number of persons required to launch/recover

    • Construction, width and condition of slipway

    • Steep/slippery slipways, beach launching, lee shores

    • Care of trailer bearings, hitch, lashings, ties, lights and winch

    • Trailer parking

    Can:

    • Prepare the boat, lines, fenders, safety equipment, fuel tanks, lines and secure gear on board.

    Boat Handling

    Knowledge of:

    • Loading: effect on handling and performance, effect on balance and trim, CE plate and

    manufacturer’s recommendation.

    • Displacement boats: handling ahead and astern, carrying away.

    Understands:

    • Crew members: minimum number in high speed craft, keeping a look-out

    • Awareness of other water users, including effect of wash

    • Steering, controls, effect of current or tidal stream

    • High speed manoeuvring: planing, trim tabs and power trim


    • Planing boats: propeller angle and immersion, shallow drive, high/low speed handling, tiller/console steering.

    Can:

    • Carry out pre-start checks, engine starting and stopping

    • Demonstrate the use of an appropriate length kill cord at all times

    • Carry out low speed manoeuvres including: turning in a confined area, effect of wind on bow

    and holding off. Demonstrate an awareness of the danger of flooding when going astern.

    • Carry out high speed manoeuvres including S-turns and U-turns.

    Securing to a buoy

    Understands:

    • Preparation of mooring warp

    • Use of a boat hook

    • Method of approach

    • Crew communication

    • Making fast

    • Procedure when overshooting

    Can:

    • Approach and secure a buoy

    Anchoring

    Understands:

    • Method of approach in various conditions

    • Taking way off

    • Crew communication • Check holding

    • Depth of water, holding ground, scope required

    Knowledge of:

    • Types of anchor

    • Stowage and attachment to boat

    • Preparation of anchor, chain and warp

    • Weighing anchor

    Can:
    • Approach and anchor correctly

    • Weigh anchor correctly

    Leaving and coming alongside

    Understands:

    • Preparation and use of painter, lines and fenders, attachment to boat, stowage under way

    • Speed and angle of approach

    • Wind effect

    • Method of approach in tidal stream or current

    Can:

    • Make fast alongside

    • Use springs

    • Leave – ahead or astern

    Man Overboard

    Knowledge of:

    • Recovery of man overboard

    Can:

    • Take immediate action

    • Observe the man overboard

    • Carry out the correct return with awareness of propeller

    • Approach and recover the man in the water

    THEORY – Section B
    Knowledge of:

    • Types of craft: advantages and disadvantages of different hull forms with respect to sea keeping ability

    • Engines and drives: advantages and disadvantages of outboard, inboard and outdrive units, single and twin screws, choice and use
    of fuels

    • Siting of fuel tanks, fuel lines, batteries, wiring and fire extinguishers

    • Routine engine maintenance checks, basic fault diagnosis

    • Close down procedure

    • Advice to inland drivers about coastal waters

    • Use and limitations of GPS


    • Application of local byelaws, especially around commercial shipping

    • Sources of weather information

    Understands:

    • Awareness of other water users

    • Communication with other craft – hand and sound signals

    • Disabled craft

    • Emergency action preventing sinking

    • Adrift – alternative means of propulsion

    • Towing and being towed

    • Fire precautions and fire fighting

    • Rope work

    • Distress signals and the Mayday call

    Can:

    • Apply IRPCS, principally rules 5,7,8,9, 12-19

    COASTAL – Section C
    Knowledge of:

    • Pilotage and passage planning

    • CG66 Small Craft Safety Scheme

    Understands:

    • Charts, chart symbols, buoyage systems

    • Tides and tidal streams

    Can:

    • Use steering and hand bearing compasses

    • Apply Section A on coastal waters

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