Purple Pelican Boat Hire in Poole ~ Our own hire boat business. No qualifications needed - 17ft boats

Solent RIB Charter ~ RIB charter business with boat available for bareboat hire

Superhawk Marine ~ A 48ft Sunseeker Superhawk for skippered charter at Cobbs Quay.

Castaway Charters ~ A Rodman 41 for skippered  charter in Poole Harbour

Events companies

Solent RIB Charter ~ RIB charter business with boat available for bareboat hire

Solent Events ~ Events company in the Solent we regularly work for

H20 Events ~ Another of the events companies that we work with

Specialist RIB Charters ~ another Solent events based company

Boat clubs

Pathfinder Powerboat Club ~ a great club for those keen to boat with others

BIBOA - a club for RIB owners

Boat dealers

Ancasta ~ Sealine, Rodman, Bavaria and Mustang dealers based at Cobbs Quay

Drake Marine International ~ Brig RIBs

Oceanique ~ Regal, Quicksilver, Kral & Gobbi

Poole Boating Centre ~ Brig RIBs, Excel Inflatables and RIB-X RIBs

Ribcraft ~ Makers & dealers of some of our RIBs

Scorpion ~ Makers & dealers of some of our RIBs

Simco Marine ~ White Shark, Starfisher & Doral

Sunseeker Sales Group ~ distributors of Sunseekers in the UK and the Med

Utopia Boats ~ Bayliner, Chris Craft, Trophy, Sessa and Astonda boats

Wessex Marine ~ Botnia Targa, Skipblast & Sea Saga

West Quay Marine ~ Cobia, Ribeye &  Mastercraft

Brokers

Ancasta ~ Country wide brokers with offices at Cobbs Quay

Boatshed ~ internet based brokers

Oceanique ~ Cobbs Quay based brokers

Boat engineers/mechanics

Holes Bay Marine ~ Based at Cobbs Quay and service all of our RIBs and hire boats

Dave Ford Marine ~ Volvo specialist who services our motor cruisers

Boat Insurers

Bishop Skinner ~ the insurers that insure our craft

Heath Lambert ~ the insurers that insure the school and charter business

Marinas

Cobbs Quay Marina ~ where we keep most of our boats

Poole Quay Boat Haven ~ the marina on Poole Quay where many of our courses berth for a while

Lymington Yacht Haven ~ where we operate from in Lymington

Chandlers

Force 4 ~ Bournemouth Road in Poole

Piplers ~ on Poole Quay

Quay West Chandlers ~ Behind Parkstone Bay Marina in Turks Lane Poole

CQ Chandlers ~ No website but based at Cobbs Quay

Salterns Chandlers ~ At Salterns Marina

Weather & tidal information

Mark Stronge's weather portal ~ the one Paul uses to get to lots of weather data quickly

BBC Marine Weather

Poole Harbour Weather ~ a great site that shows the current weather in the harbour and gives records

Cowes Harbour Weather ~ a similar site to the Poole one

Bramblenet ~ A weather site based on the Bramble Bank in the Solent

ChiMet ~ A weather site based just outside the entrance to Chichester Harbour

Easytide ~ the Admiralty's excellent free tidal service

Easytide ~ Prediction for Poole

Web magazines and forums

RIBnet ~ A RIB website with a very useful forum section

RIB Magazine ~ The website for the RIB International magazine

RIB Exhibitions ~ Organizers of RIBEX - the RIB Exhibition

YBW.com ~ A website for all boating disciplines useful forum section

HotRIBs ~ a RIB website and forum

Other useful websites

HM Coastguard

Marine Accident Investigation Branch ~ contains some very useful reports on accidents with some useful lessons

RNLI Sea Safety

RNLI ~ General RNLI site

RNLI Education ~ a great site for kids & schools

OFCOM ~ The website if you want to get your VHF radio licence

Poole Harbour website

Poole Harbour ~ Harbour dues application

Poole Harbour ~ jetski licence application

Poole Harbour ~ waterski licence application

AIS Live ~ A great site for those keen to see the whereabouts of the larger vessels.

AIS Liverpool ~ Another AIS system based around Liverpool but with easy to access to other areas

Passage planning related sites

MMSI Numbers for Coastguard Stations

Coastguard CG66 form ~ a great free scheme from the Coastguard

EPIRB Registration Form

Notice to Mariners ~ Poole

Notice to Mariners ~ Portsmouth

Notice to Mariners ~ Southampton

Chart corrections ~ Imray

Chart corrections ~ Admiralty

Chart corrections ~ Stanfords

Marine recovery

SeaStart ~ The AA of the sea

Associations

British Marine Federation ~ the representative body for marine businesses in the UK (we're members)

BMF Wessex ~ Our local branch

Marine Leisure Association ~ the group within the BMF focussed on Training and Charter businesses  (we're members)

British Waterski Federation

RYA ~ General RYA site

RYA Training ~ dedicated website for RYA training

Tourism & things to do

Poole Tourism

Bournemouth Tourism

Poole View ~  A site about Poole and its many attractions

Other links

Some for people we know.....

Cool Sun Outdoors ~ Outdoor Equipment

and...... some we don't!

We are approached by lots of businesses that want to exchange links with us. If their business looks interesting and has (some!) relevance to ours then we'll add their link here. We can't comment as to what they are like as a business though as we don't know them.

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Powerboat Training UK make every attempt to ensure that the content of the sites that we link to are appropriate. We can't be held responsible though if they are not!