For your Gold Coast Boat or PWC licence course please phone Russell on
07 5594 5653
Do your Boat & Jet Ski licence on the same day and receive a $50 discount.
All students receive a Free Volunteer Marine Rescue membership, valued at $55.
This entitles you to free on the water breakdown & towing assistance.
ABOUT GOLD COAST
Enjoy the comfort of our waterfront classrooms at the Southport Yacht Club and Horizon Shores Marina-Jacobs Well.
1 day courses are available every Thursday and Sunday at the Southport Yacht Club and every Saturday at Jacobs Well.
Extra courses are also available at both locations on demand.
Raised in a family with a long line of fishing experience and a father who skippered trawlers for 30 years since the day I could walk I have been going to sea. Leaving school at 16 to chase a career in the fishing industry I spent 5 years up and down the Queensland coast as a deckhand on my fathers prawn trawler.
After serving my apprenticeship as a decky I had accumulated enough sea time to sit for my Master Class 5 skippers ticket and professional fisherman's licence at the age of 21. For the next 3 years I was master of a number of Fishing vessels before deciding there must be more to life than fishing. Drawing on the experience I had gained over the 8 years full time at sea I decided to have a go at passing my knowledge onto others and joined the Australian Boating College in 1996 as boat licence instructor. Deciding that this was my calling I became owner of ABC Gold Coast.
In my time as a boating instructor I have taught over 10 000 students wishing to obtain their recreational boat licence. I have also been employed by the Australian Maritime Training centre for the past 8 years as their senior facilitator and assessor for commercial maritime operations training hundreds of people to gain skippers qualifications in the boating industry.
In the 20 years I have been employed in this industry nothing gives me more pleasure than at the end of a course when you issue a student their certificate of competency and see the smile on their face and you know you are sending another safe boatie out on the water.
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FREE TRAINING DVD OFFER
Attend one of our Licence Courses and you receive a 1¾ hour Boat and PWC training DVD
FREE OF CHARGE.
