Safety Boat Operator
This course provides the skills needed to support water-based activities at clubs, schools and outdoor recreation centres. You will learn about race design and practice on water rescue of dinghies and multihulls.
You’ll learn about:
- Personal equipment
- Safety boats and equipment
- Course design and management
- Positioning craft
- Communication with other boats and shore
- Lay and recover marker buoys
- Rig multiple towing and towing alongside
- Fragile high-performance boat towing
- Right capsized and inverted dinghies
- Entrapment
- Recovering persons in the water
Prerequisites:
- WA Recreational Skipper’s Ticket
- Pre-reading of the National Powerboating Work Book
- Completed the Powerboat Handling Course
Upcoming Safety Boat Operator Courses
Courses are scheduled based on registered interest. Register your interest below!
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT REGISTRATIONS
To make a course booking, please use the ‘Book Now’ button to register. This will take you to our Australian Sailing (AS) course registration page. Australian Sailing is the national body for the sport of sailing and Hillarys Yacht Club is a registered Australian Sailing Discover Sailing Centre. You will need to know the Australian Sailing (AS) number of the sailor participating in the course in order to register that person, or you can create a profile for a new sailor. This profile and number are a unique identifier and stores course information for future reference, accessible by yourself and your registered club. It is important that the AS number is created for the person doing the course with their own name and details as they will keep this number for the lifetime of their journey in the sport of sailing.
