SisterShip Training and Boat Licencing

Get Your NSW Boat Licence — And Feel Prepared On The Water

Clear, practical training that helps you pass the test and feel more confident once you’re actually out on the water.

Already boating but still unsure?

If you already hold your licence, or don’t legally need one, but still feel nervous making decisions on the water, this course will help you feel calmer and more capable out there.

Practical boating education built for real-world confidence

Designed for recreational boaters, cruisers, and maritime students who want calmer, more practical confidence — not just theory.

20+ years training experience

Over 20 years helping boaters and maritime students build practical, real-world confidence.

1,000+ students taught

Online and face-to-face training designed to make boating easier to understand and apply.

Real boating experience

Training built around the real decisions boaters face on the water — not just textbook scenarios.

Step-by-step teaching

Clear explanations that help you understand what to do, when to do it, and why it matters.

Proud BIA Member

Supporting safer, more practical boating education for Australian boaters and marine students.

When boating finally starts to feel clearer and more confident

Students often come to us feeling unsure, overwhelmed, or nervous. The real win is leaving with clearer understanding and more confidence on the water.

★★★★★

“I feel so much more confident.”

“I came hoping to learn the basics of navigation. This has been exceeded, I feel so much more confident.”

— Jenny M, NSW
★★★★★

“Confidence to keep going.”

“The confidence I have gained through their nav course has given me the strength to continue my dream of sailing.”

— Karen T, QLD

Self-Paced Courses – Collison Regulations (online)  

Lights and Shapes.

This workshop forms part of our Navigation Course. If you just want this section (Col Regs – Lights and Shapes) you are in the right place.

This course is great for revision or to commence your understanding of the Collision Regulations Lights and Shapes and give-way rules. We reveal our personal technique to remember the lights/shapes easily.

What you get:

  • Unlimited support via phone or email
  • Video presentations take you through the key elements of lights and shapes
  • Practice quizzes
  • Our personal technique to help you remember the lights/shapes and build on that knowledge

Col regs only – Available now for $25 – Take this course


COMPLETE ONLINE CAPTAINS’ COURSE
AND ESSENTIAL CREW SKILLS

If you’d like to do the complete Navigation course (including Weather, Passage Planning, and Col Regs) PLUS Electronic Charts Passage Planning, Emergency Preparedness, Boat handling
Click here.


Col regs only – Available now for $25 – Take this course

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Col Regs information: Click here.

We learn to manoeuvre a car and the rules of the road on land, it’s the same for a boat.

The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972, often abbreviated to Col Regs, are the worldwide rules of the road on the water.

The way I learned them

  • Combine patterns
  • Study the basics (port, starboard, stern light)
  • Study the sets that show ‘not under command’ and ‘restricted in ability to manoeuvre’, etc
  • Understand how they work when you put them together

That meant I didn’t have to remember every individual scenario but interpret what I saw by using the core knowledge and ‘sets’ of lights combined together. Read more here…

 

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