RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities

A compulsory online course for new and revalidating RYA Commercial Endorsement holders applicable from April 2012.

Each year approximately 4,500 people apply to the RYA for a commercial endorsement in order to use their RYA qualifications professionally as skipper or crew. You could be doing anything from delivering a new 35’ yacht or driving a workboat with lifting and towing gear, to running a superyacht in the Med. Whatever your job is on board, in the commercial world you are a professional seafarer. As such, you are no different from the captain of a cruise liner – you have a duty of care to crew, passengers, and other water users, and you will be held to account if things go wrong.

Why

choose

SeaRegs

to

do

the

PPR

course?

Only a handful of schools are able to offer the course through RYA Interactive. Simon Jinks, SeaRegs’ Chief Instructor has helped with the development of this new course and is also author of the RYA Commercial Regulations – Small Vessels, one of the latest books from the RYA and specifically designed to accompany the course.

The course can be completed anywhere, anytime provided you have a PC, Mac or iPad (iOS 6 or above) and internet access. There are a number of documents you will need to view online or download, some people find it easier to have a printed copy of MGN280 to hand.