How to Obtain a Boat License
Getting your Boat Licence is simple if you take the time to learn the Boating Safety Course. Once you have completed a Boating Safety Course you will then be eligible to sit the Victorian Maritime Licence Test. Below you will find the different ways to go through the Boating Safety Course and then sit your test so you can starting boating immediately with Pleasure Cruising Club, Williamstown. Instead of a boat rental or boat hire arrangment and be limited to driving a boat at speeds less than 10 knots , being fully licensed you experience true boating with luxury sports cruisers.
Note that you require a Licence for both General Boating and Personal Watercrafts (PWC) which are crafts such as Jetskis. It is illiegal to operate a PWC with ONLY a General Boat Licence as there are different rules are regulations that govern both activities.
Applicants wishing to upgrade their existing General Boating Licence to a PWC Licence are not required to provide evidence of practical experience and need only comply with PWC Boating Safety Course and PWC licence test requirements.
IT WILL BE COMPULSORY TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF PRACTICAL BOATING EXPERIENCE BEFORE YOUR LICENCE TEST(S) CAN BE ATTEMPTED.
The Boat Licence test is simple if you take the time to learn the rules.
Completing the Boating Safety Course can be doneWhat to expect in the test
All the questions you will need to answer in the test can be practiced in the NSW Maritime online quiz. Note that every time you enter an incorrect answer you must start again, you will also need to answer the same set of questions again and again in the quiz as each time you do it they do not change much. This is good! It helps you learn so take the time to do this quiz many times.
The quiz is set out just like the real test. It is comprised of 40 questions in total. The first 15 questions you answer must be all answered correctly so be careful! You are then allowed 5 incorrect answers on the next 25 questions.
If you also need a PWC Licence you need to complete an additional 15 questions (minimum of 12 to be answered correctly). You must pass the General Boat Licence test before you get to these questions in the real test.
Good Luck and Safe Boating!