Safety Boat Course

You can put safety beyond doubt, up-skill now!

Experience:

Improvers

National Powerboat Certificate Required

Duration:

2 day weekend course

Cost:

€300

Syllabus & Certificate:

Safetyboat Certificate | Irish Sailing

Is your club active on the water rowing, kayaking or with Dragon boats? Want to be a Senior Instructor?

People and equipment IN the water is every club organisers nightmare. We all stay as safe as we can but what do we do if there is a situation? How do we deal with multiple emergencies simultaneously? If there’s any doubt, it’s all doubt.

Jump on our 2 day Irish Sailing Safetyboat course & learn how to figure it out. Learn all the skills required to keep people safe, run events safely and deal with emergencies on the water.

What am I aiming for?

Irish Sailing Safetyboat Certificate. Login here to get your Certificate!

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Our Locations

Where is it?

WWS Lake Base

6HV4+78M Ballymore Upper, County Sligo

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Mullaghmore

8C3J+WG3 Oyster Island, County Sligo

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Rosses Point

FH83+4P9 Mullaghmore, County Sligo

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(VENUE WEATHER DEPENDENT)

Our Schedule

When is it?

2 day weekend course

All year round

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Skills You’ll Learn

Preparation of a powerboat for going to sea

Safety checks, Engine
& Fuel checks

Advanced High Speed
and slow speed handling

Preparation of
boat for use

Basic boat handling

Race management
(sailing boats)

Approaching and assisting sailing dinghies, windsurfers, canoes & kayaks, kite-surfers

Towing

Incident management
and medical emergencies

Basic search and
rescue patterns

What People Are Saying

Excellent quality, 2nd to none

Can’t recommend Dave at Wild West Sailing enough. The quality of the Day Skipper Courses, Yachts & Instruction are 2nd to none. Already booked in for my next trip and working towards a Yachtmaster in the next year.

Jonathan Curran (Coastal Skipper)

March | 2025
Couldn’t recommend highly enough.

Lovely Boat, Great Instructor And An Incredible Place To Sail Off Ireland’s Beautifully Rugged West Coast. A Day Trip To Sligo’s Innismurray Island In Summer With Wild West Sailing Is Unforgettable, And Sailing There As Part Of A Crew Was A Great Experience. Dave Has A Wealth Of Knowledge, Yet Is Patient In Training Others. He Knows How To Put People At Ease, While Also Pushing Them To Achieve More.

Sophie Skinner

March | 2025
A great experience!

Great experience and awesome instructor with many years of sailing experience! Thanks Dave for the perfect week sailing on the west coast of Ireland. We will come back for sure and do the day skipper course with you. I highly recommend this experience for everyone who is serious about sailing.

Eike Willner

March | 2025
WWS continue to exceed expectations!

Highly recommend Wild West Sailing having done both Day skipper theory and practical courses with them this year. David and Nigel provided expert, friendly tuition and were super patient. Will be back for my Yachtmaster next year.

Damien Duggan

March | 2025
A true bucket-list experience!!

Round Ireland September 2023. Exceptional!! I will remember this experience for the rest of my days! Big seas, calm seas, lots of wind, no wind, amazing islands, pristine coastlines, basking shark, bioluminescence and dolphins swimming in it in the pitch dark, the Skelligs at night, starry skies, shooting stars under full sails, tidal gates, tuskar rock, the fastnet, we saw it all!

John Mc Donald

March | 2025

What’s Next?

After completing the Safety Boat Course, why not try out our Navigation Courses.

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