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

Jetski Safaris ~ A great way to get out and see the harbour and Poole Bay

Poole SeaSafari ~ A Trips from Poole Quay on a big black Parker RIB

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

Boat clubs

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

BIBOA ~ a club for RIB owners

Cobbs Quay Berth Holders Association ~ a great way to get out and meet people if you are based at Cobbs Quay

Boat dealers

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

Bates Wharf ~ Trophy Boats, Chris Craft, Bayliner & Maxum

Boatylicious ~ sales of RIBs, Karnics and  sportsboats

Drake Marine International ~ Brig RIBs

Gibbs Marine ~ Regal sportsboats

Lyme Bay RIBs ~ Ribeye RIBs and part share ownership schemes

Ribcraft ~ Makers & dealers of some of our RIBs

Scorpion ~ Makers & dealers of some of our RIBs

Sunseeker Poole ~ distributors of Sunseekers in the UK and the Med

Wessex Marine ~ Botnia Targa, Skipblast & Sea Saga

Yellow Penguin ~ Karnic boats and Suzuki engines

Brokers

Ancasta ~ Country wide brokers with offices at Cobbs Quay, speak to Peter or Becky

Boatshed ~ internet based brokers, speak to Ian Welsh

Boatylicious ~ On site at Cobbs Quay - speak to Tony

Boat engineers/mechanics

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

Mike Wills Marine ~ service and look after our motor cruisier

Power Marine & Auto ~ based next door to us. Service and boat cleaning

Marinautic ~ Mercury agent, again recommended

Marine Options ~ Can do just about any boaty job that needs doing

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

Piplers ~ two shops on Poole Quay. Mention our name when you go there!

Force 4 ~ Bournemouth Road in Poole

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

Cobbs Quay Weather ~ our own weather station at CQ. also has a useful page that has links to most of the sites listed below.

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

XC Weather ~ a new favourite with the instructors with a useful mobile phone sized variant

BBC Marine Weather

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

Poole Yacht Club weather site ~ another live weather site

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 (NB: remember that you may need to adjust for daylight saving time)

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

Sportsboat ~ The site for Sportsboat magazine

Jetskier ~ The site for PWs

Poole based yacht clubs

Parkstone Yacht Club

Poole Yacht Club

North Haven Yacht Club

Royal Motor Yacht Club

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

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)

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

British Waterski Federation

British Sub Aqua Club

RYA ~ General RYA site

RYA Interactive ~ the new site for the RYA

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.....

Spirit of Corinth ~  These guys are rowing the Atlantic for charity!!

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!