Month: May 2008

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Power Boat Licence

A bit of background to this one first.

If you want to pilot a powerboat in European or UK waters you need:

  • An International Certificate of Competence (ICC) (RYA INFO)
  • Attain the ICC in the discipline that you are wanting to use (MORE RYA INFO)

The discipline that we are going to cover here is the ICC Level 2 (link here) which is: Coastal waters; Powerboat up to 10m in length; for Pleasure use only.

This is a 2 day course to be taken with a qualified instructor and covers off all the necessary for you to be “self-sufficient powerboating at a basic level”

Now for the instruction days:

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Motorcycle Licence: Part II: The Lessons & Test

After now passed our CBT it was just the big hurdle of the Bike practical test and the inconvenience of the theory test that we had to overcome!

The beast had dropped off the radar at this point happy with his CBT accomplishment, which left Captain Slow and myself to get our lessons booked in and completed with the run up to our tests. This wasn’t easy as Tim has a busy schedule and I am pretty easy going, so the first couple of lessons we took apart. Also due to Tim’s solid performance on the CBT day out he didn’t need as many lessons as me to get up to standard.

2 weeks to go till the first lesson… Continue reading “Motorcycle Licence: Part II: The Lessons & Test”

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The Motorbike Licence Part I – The CBT

 Well, as a lot of items on my ‘to do’ list actually involve a motorbike, it was about time that I pulled my finger out and actually did what I had been debating for many years…. and try to pass my Motorbike licence!

From what had started as drunken chats like: “Yeah, that would be awesome, let do our bike licence” for about 3 years, it took an organised man (Tim Williams, later known as Captain Slow) to call around for quotes and availability for instruction to finally book us in for our CBT. Continue reading “The Motorbike Licence Part I – The CBT”

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New Site Go-Live

If your a regular visitor to the site you’ll notice that the site has dramatically changed. This has been done to make it a lot easier so add more content so I can keep the site current and hence, giving you guys more updated content to look at.

The main feature additions that you’ll see are the: