The TurboJet MX brings a fresh approach to the established compact tender concept, combining low weight with agile handling and responsive performance.
Its compact dimensions are designed for yacht storage without sacrificing precise steering or acceleration.
The updated model targets owners seeking an entertaining tender for short transfers and recreational use.
Performance and manoeuvrability remain central to its design and onboard appeal.
This video gives you an impression of an Powerboat Level 2 course, showing the practical skills required to handle a powerboat safely and confidently (RYA website).
The training covers boat handling, manoeuvring, navigation and essential safety procedures. Participants also practise coming alongside, mooring, man-overboard recovery and controlling a powerboat at speed.
Designed for both newcomers and boaters looking to sharpen their skills, the course combines practical experience with essential knowledge. The goal is clear: to develop safer, more confident and increasingly independent powerboat drivers.
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I would also recommend OLM (OLM Perfectionnement Mer Formée), led by Olivier Consorti. He offers specialised training focused on handling boats in rough seas.
Is there anyone who goes to sea that doesn’t have an appreciation for the form and function of a lighthouse?
Well, I have something of an obsession with them, much to the amusement of my boating friends.
But I can’t help noticing that if I suggest we detour for a look, they don’t put up much of a fight!
So why do they exert such a pull on me?
Apart from their obvious functionality, the lighthouses of Scotland were built at a time of political and social upheaval.
Scotland and England united.
Nations became Empire.
Sail gave way to steam.
Commerce eclipsed the claymore.
Lighthouses were built not only at the confluence of seas and land, they were also built at the confluence of time and history.
They were hard-headed infrastructure, built because increasing commerce demanded safer seas.
The fact they’re beautiful is almost incidental. Yet two hundred years on, it’s difficult not to see something almost cathedral-like about them.
Built by people who expected their work to outlive them, lighting the darkness for strangers they’d never meet.
An Expedition by RIB: Scotland’s Great Atlantic Offshore Lighthouses
For me, the holy grails are the great Atlantic, offshore, sea washed lighthouses of Skerryvore, Dubh Artach and Hyskeir, their names evocative of both the Gaelic and Norse influences on these islands and seas.
Reaching them feels less like sightseeing and more like a pilgrimage.
With a rarely benign offshore forecast, we set off from near Oban to make the 57 mile trip to Dubh Artach.
We soon left the familiar shores of Mull behind and headed out into open sea towards a tiny speck on the horizon about 20 NM away.
It was an uneventful run at 26-30 knots, punctuated only by the occasional fishing boat and sail on the horizon.
We were pleased to be able to pick up the light by radar at around 10 NM, not bad on a RIB A-frame although it was intermittent as we rode the large rolling swell.
A Pilgrimage To Scotland’s Great Offshore Lighthouse
Dubh Artach: The Only Thing Further West is Canada
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