Private Powerboat Lessons - Beginner To Advanced
Fast Track To Boating Mastery & Confidence
Master Skills Faster And Gain More Confidence
Private powerboat lessons offer distinct advantages over group learning, particularly for those who want to maximize their progress efficiently. Here’s how private lessons excel:
- Personalized Instruction – With one-on-one attention, each private lesson is designed to synch your skill level, goals, and areas needing improvement. This allows you to progress faster than in group settings, where lessons need to meet the needs of varying levels and learning is slow and inefficient.
- Learning At Your Speed – In private powerboat lessons, you control the pace. You can spend more time on skills you find challenging and move quickly through areas you’ve mastered. Group learning often moves at the pace of the slowest learner, which can hold back those ready to advance.
- Direct Feedback – Private powerboat lessons provide immediate and specific feedback, allowing you to adjust and improve in real-time. In a group, instructors often divide their attention, limiting the depth of personalized guidance and slowing overall progress.
Our private powerboat lessons ensure a quicker, more customized path to mastering the water. All our classroom learning is online. This allows you to preapre for your lessons on your own time and pace. All the lesson hours you pay for are on-the-water where the learning really happens.
Why Private Powerboat Lessons Are The Best Choice
- Master Skills Faster – With undivided, tailored instruction, you’ll gain confidence and skill on the water quicker than in group classes.
- No Wasted Time – Learn at your own pace without waiting for others; focus solely on what you need to improve.
- Stay Sharp and Safe – Get instant feedback on your technique, so you can confidently handle any situation on the water.
Private learning experiences are scientifically proven to improve learning and heighten retention by 35%. Our private powerboat lessons give you:
- High level of focused attention to fast-track competency and skill training.
- Online access to the course materials with 24-hour access for reviewing and reinforcing practice sessions.
- Course materials before your lessons. Early prep makes for more effective learning and greater retention.
Our Lesson Structure
Powerboat lesson days are 4 hours of on-the-waer training. We (and science) have determined that limiting learning to a 4-hour day maximizes retention and enhances learning.
You start with our initial assessment so we have a clear sense of your boating history (don’t need any), goals, and areas of focus for your full education. We create customized learning experiences which no group lesson could match. Our goal is to help you successfully meet your boating goals in a reasonable time with a level of confidence that you can take to the water.
Our private powerboat lessons are offered all year long, seven days a week, with start times from early morning to late afternoons.
Get Started Today
- Call 510-236-2633 or complete this contact form to get your custom lesson plan
- Complete our Boating Lesson Training Profile . Your goals and experience (you don’t need any) helps us design your path to boating competency
- Check out our Boating Club if you want to boat regularly (lessons included in Membership).
OUR PRIVATE POWERBOAT LESSONS
2-Day (8-Hr) Skill Building Custom Course
Our 8 hour course is a great starting point if you want to refresh your skills or are wondering if boating is for you and your family. This is a perfect way to check out boating while you gain skills. This course gives you a focused sense of where your skill sets are and where you need to focus for handling a boat in open water or close quarters. It quickly helps you understand your level of comfort on board.
Most people returning to powerboating after a break, or those starting out, find docking and maneuvering in tight spaces the most challenging. This private lesson gets you on top of the critical skills you want and up to speed quickly and with greater confidence. The course content is customized to your needs so is very cost effective and highy efficient.
3-Day (16-Hour) Safe Powerboat Handling Course – Single or Twin Engine
This course is a 3-day (16-hour) hands-on, on-the-water course and is your jumping-off course either as a beginner or a returning boater needing to refresh skills. In this course, you will learn how to safely operate a small motorboat and gain or improve your boat handling skills. The schedule is usually two 6-hour days and one 4-hour day. We can accomodate any schedule as we operate 7 days a week and any time of the day.
The US Coast Guard and the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) have approved this course for the California Boater’s Card. The state of California recognizes this course as meeting their requirements for the California Boater’s Card.
There are no prerequisites to taking this course. Review the course curriculum.
4-Day (24-Hour) Powerboat Cruising Course – Twin or Single Engine
In our 4-day course you get your skill level up in half the time of large classes and go from novice to a real boater. The individual focus of the course allows for personalization and focused attention. You move at your speed attending to the areas where you need to until you feel confident. Sessions are usually four 6-hour days. Your lessons are orgainzed around your schedule and time.
The course is taught according to the the US Powerboating Curriculum and taught by experienced instructors. In a private course you move at your own pace on areas where you need more training and practice. It’s the fastest and best way to learn and be comfortable on the water. No powerboat experience necessary.
Review our course contentfor the skills competency curriculum and overview of the course.
Tell Us Your Goals And We'll Get You Boating In No Time!
Need Private Lessons On Your Own Boat?
We provide experienced and qualified instructors (all Coast Guard licensed) to give you lessons on your own boat. The minimum lesson time is 4-hours. Work on the areas you need most and get comfortable boating on your own.
