AUSTRALIAN BOATING COLLEGE

For your Gold Coast Boat / PWC licence course  Phone: Russell  55272 766

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Southport  -  Jacobs Well -  Tweed Heads
1 day courses are available every Sunday and Thursday at Southport Yacht Club, & every Saturday at Jacobs Well.Extra courses at Jacobs Well and Southport are also available on demand.

All students receive a Free VMR membership, valued at $55
Do your Boat & PWC licence on the same day and receive a $50 discount.

Boat Licence ONLINE PRE-STUDY COURSE is available on this site-   Click Here
 

Russell Shipman- Career profile

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 5000 students wishing to obtain their recreational boat licence. I have also been employed by the Australian Maritime Training Centre for the past 5 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 18 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.

Navigation Course
 This course is designed for those wishing to make offshore trips and for those making extended coastal passages. We’ve included the most useful topics for recreational purposes, from the more intensive commercial courses eg Coxswain

Duration is 6 hours in a classroom environment, usually running over two evenings. Cost is $150

You’ll gain the crucial navigation skills necessary to safely navigate a boat in open waters.
 
Topics include
How to plan your trip
Necessary charts, instruments and publications
Compass usage
How to work out your position
Latitude & Longitude
Safe anchorages
Distance, speed, time and fuel calculations
Basic electronics including GPS, radar, etc
 
At the end of the course you will receive a certificate of attendance, and have more skills to safely navigate your boat.

The course is conducted by a commercial skipper who is an Australian Boating College instructor.
Call Russell on 55272 766