Get Qualified - how do I become an Instructor?
Check out the Instructor pathways below for guidance on getting quailified.
Instructors are the foundation of the training programme and role models within our community. A unqiue blend of personality, technical ability and a passion for promoting skills and safety in the outdoors.
Considering to become an instructor?
The Instructor pathways are split into three schemes...
Small Boat Sailing Scheme (SBSS)
National Powerboat Training Scheme (NPTS)
Go Windsurfing Scheme
To find a course, click here
Upskilling or Revalidating and can't find the course for you?
Register an Expression of Interest below:
Click here for Sailing
Click here for Powerboat
Click here for Windsurfing
INSTRUCTOR GLOSSARY
Pre-Entry Assessment - A one-day personal skills assessment to ensure your practical boat handling and background knowledge is up to standard to attend an instructor course.
Endorsement/ Upgrade - Developing your skills further by adding an endoresement to your instructorship. eg. Advanced Instructor, Safety Boat Instructor, Senior Instructor etc.
Conversion - Attending a workshop as an instructor to quailfy yourself to another instructor discipline. eg. dinghy, keelboat, catamaran, powerboat, windsurfing.
CPD/ Revalidation - Attending a workshop to renew your instructorship validation period. Your first instructorship is valid for 3-years. Upgrades and Revalidations will revalidate instructotrships for 5-years.
Revalidations are completed per discipline (SBSS, NPTS, Go Windsurfing).
By attending a Revalidation Workshop all your instructorships in that discipline will be revalidated for 5-years.
Scheme - A scheme is the specific activity type within the training programme. eg. Small Boat Sailing Scheme, National Powerboat Training Scheme, Go Windsurfing Scheme, National Cruising Scheme.
Discipline - A particular programme within a training scheme. eg. Dinghy, Keelboat, Catamaran disciplines within the SBSS.