Feeling a little nervous about taking the helm? Do you dream of navigating Perth’s beautiful waterways with ease and confidence? iiCaptain is here to help! We offer a range of boat handling courses specifically designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to become a safe and competent skipper.
Whether you’re a new skipper or a seasoned boatie looking to brush up on your skills, we have a course for you. Our courses are tailored to meet your individual needs and experience level, and all are delivered by our team of highly qualified and experienced instructors throughout Western Australia.
Boat Handling Courses
Have you recently purchased your first boat and want to brush up on your boating skills before setting sail by yourself on your new pride and joy? Our iiCaptain course is a great choice. Popular with boat dealers, we can show you how to launch and retrieve your vessel, as well as how to park and tie up at a jetty.
We will show you the best way to have fun on your new boat with a range of tips and advice from our experienced boat handling instructors.
Often referred to as our “Super-yacht Course,” our Big Boat Handling Course is for more than Super-Yachts and is a great choice for anyone purchasing or wanting to brush up their skills on a large vessel.
Regularly completed at yacht clubs, boat pens, moorings and even local harbours, this course will teach you berthing, unberthing, fueling, anchoring, mooring, general handling, and more!
On top of this we can also train members of your crew! Be that your wife, hubby, spouse, other family and friends on what to expect. We tailor our course to your boat, whether that be 8m or 28m. Our team of master qualified boat handling Skippers have been operating boats like yours for years.
Often referred to as our “Super-yacht Course,” our Big Boat Handling Course is for more than Super-Yachts and is a great choice for anyone purchasing or wanting to brush up their skills on a large vessel.
Regularly completed at yacht clubs, boat pens, moorings and even local harbours, this course will teach you berthing, unberthing, fueling, anchoring, mooring, general handling, and more!
On top of this we can also train members of your crew! Be that your wife, hubby, spouse, other family and friends on what to expect. We tailor our course to your boat, whether that be 8m or 28m. Our team of master qualified boat handling Skippers have been operating boats like yours for years.
Looking for a more advanced Boat Course? Look no further than iiCaptains Advanced Boat Handling Course. This advanced course, pefect for anyone who wants to expand on their boat handling skills, teaches boat handling, anchoring, berthing, beaching (only for some boats – if that’s what you want to do) and ‘familiarisation trips’ can be customised to suit your needs.
The course is popular for new boat owners wanting to learn at new locations. We are able to complete custom courses and familiarisation trips on an hourly basis. To ensure you get the best training possible, we only utilise our most senior trainers, all of whom have operated charters, ferries and superyachts with many years experience. These are all professionals, unlike most RST trainers at boat schools who are generally just part- timers.
Boat Handling Course Costs
For any training on your own boat with a master trainer, we require a minimum introductory charge for 3 hours of $425. After this you can book any of our packages. All pricing is per boat, not per person, so bring along your crew, family and friends and all be trained at the same time!
Other Factors When Booking a Boat Handling Course
It is worth remembering that all boating is subjected to weather factors. It may be beneficial for you to learn with good conditions, or perhaps you want to learn to handle the boat in windier conditions. As your date gets closer we can assess the weather and work out the optimal time for your boating course.
Boating Course Inclusions
- Boat parking and handling in a marina
- Trim and open water handling
- A river excursion (we have Day and Night Convoys) where we take just a few boats out into the river to do a familiarisation trip up and show you all the tricks to navigation and how to do what and where.
- A Rotto convoy with a few boats and a trainer to get to know how to get in and out of the bays at Rotto safely. Or a quick trip right around Garden Island or over to Carnac, to anchor and return. Just to get you to know what to do, what the safe things and the dangerous things are.
