RYA Commercial Endorsement Professional Boat Training Courses

An RYA commercially endorsed boating qualification is the gateway to employment at sea. At the simplest level a commercial endorsement simple means you have added a group of supporting qualifications to your RYA practical course to make it a commercial qualification.

Solent Boat Training can help with all types of RYA commercial endorsements and training courses.

For example, just gain an RYA sea survival and the new Professional Practices and Responsibilities ( PPR ) online one day course and you make your RYA Powerboat level 2 certificate commercial ! This will have limited use, but a good place to start and gets you being paid to drive a rib by day up to to 3 miles from shore.

Here we detail the full range of RYA qualifications that can have a commercial endorsement.

I) Course completion certificates :- No Exam Required

RYA National Powerboat Certificate - Level 2

RYA National Powerboat Certificate - Advanced (only if issued before January 1, 2005)

RYA Day Skipper (tidal) practical course completion certificate.

RYA Day Skipper (non-tidal) practical course completion certificate, only if supported by a Day Skipper shorebased course completion certificate.

II) Certificate of competence :- Gained By Exam Passed

RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence

RYA Yachtmaster Coastal Certificate of Competence

RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence

RYA Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate of Competence

The higher you progress on the above list basically allows you to skipper larger boats, further from shore and in worsening conditions such as night time and poor weather.

Commercial Endorsements With The Solent Boat Training XS Ribs & Redbay Rib Fleet

Initial Commercial Training Boat

Our Redbay Stormforce 650`s are powered by a Suzuki 175 hp engine, has a 7" Garmin chartplotter, 225 litre fuel tanks and incredible sea keeping performance.

They are used for our initial powerboat commercial endorsement training courses and is licensed for commercial use 20 miles from land.

Intermediate & Advanced  Commercial Training Boat

Our XS Ribs 750`s are powered by a Mercury 200 hp engine, has  seating, 8" Garmin chartplotter, 200 litre fuel tanks and incredible sea keeping performance.

They is used for our intermediate powerboat commercial endorsement training courses and is licensed for commercial use 20 miles from land.

RYA Advanced Powerboat exams require a commercially coded boat which we can provide for the exam at a cost of £125 per student assuming 3 students are on the exam.

The RYA exam fee of £193 is payable directly to the RYA examiner.