About Perth Boat School

Perth Boat School has evolved from being a trusted provider of Skippers Tickets in WA to being trusted by many to provide Radio Licences, Coxswain courses and Boat Handling courses for all levels of skippers Nationally. 

Perth Boat School’s suite of courses have been designed with industry in mind. Designed to cater to workers who don’t want to sit in a classroom for weeks listening to a lecturer, with support and education provided by some of Australia’s most qualified and experienced Captains.

• We do the most commercial training on boats, on real location, in students’ boats and in regional areas, offshore, on islands etc. and are trusted by more companies than any other provider in WA.

• We (our team) without a doubt includes some of the most experienced and qualified Professional Commercial Skippers in Australia, with a vast list of boating experience/s. We are a team of Master skippers who have operated their own and other peoples vessels in a professional commercial capacity in almost every conceivable marine industry sector, including marine tourism, commercial fishing, sports, offshore exploration, and owned and run marine commercial enterprises  “down South”, “up North”, “over East”, and Internationally with over 100 years of combined experience. 

• We have not only operated the boats, but managed boat building factory and built ferries, yachts and even built a charter catamaran. We’ve Managed Yacht clubs, owned and run boat hire businesses, jet boats, parasailing and have skippered and taught the skippers of almost every type of boat and propulsion system imaginable, through all sorts of circumstances, survived sailing through cyclones offshore, including Mike sailing his own Catamaran right through the eye of one, crossed many oceans and done solo sailing as well as many international crewed voyages.

• Most ‘other’ assessors have only the minimum qualification to be a trainer. Where out team have a variety of skills, knowledge and qualifications, meaning we can cater to what you need more than any other trainer. Most ‘other’ Skippers Ticket assessors are only qualified to be crew on a commercial vessel, We are the Skipper. We train the trainers at many of the other Maritime Training Organisations, because they trust what we do and how we go about it.

• Our team includes qualified Masters as well as Marine Engineer Driver qualifications and has many international equivalent qualifications including superyacht yacht master offshore, Waterski Instructor and Parasail and Hovercraft Operator. Sailing internationally, racing yachts internationally, delivering and skippering boats nationally and internationally as well as the ocean crossings, commercial and International boating experience coupled with our passion and knowledge make iiCaptain / Perth Boat School / Australian Boat Schools the best option as they can adjust styles to suit your needs.

• Our team includes the experience of having managed WA’s largest Pearl Farm (& trained it’s skippers), owned and operated Sailsun International,  Dive and Eco charter tours through Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and many other places. We’ve skippered and supervised vessel building and it’s operations for a stock market listed exploration company offshore (looking for diamonds off the North Coast of WA) etc etc…..

If you can find another team of assessors who have the experience and expertise that come with having done the hard miles, who have more qualifications and anywhere near the same experience, let us know. We would like to hire them. We only hire the best and we’re always looking for good people to join our team.

*A Captain is not necessarily a Master 1. We have Master 1 Unlimited qualified trainers working for iiCaptain. Captain is just a courtesy name that  Master 1’s sometimes call each other, and want the public to call them, but it is not a real rank or title they hold. Captain is something skippers call you when you are the best. Australian Boat Schools are a team of more real Captains than any other boat school. That’s where iiCAPTAIN came from, because we hear that all the time….. “ii Captain…”

iiCAPTAIN is an internationally registered trademark

“ii” or “aye aye” means “yes” on a boat, so the correct response is always “iiCAPTAIN”.