About us
PB-MarineTraining is a Training Centre with many years of experience in the Merchant Shipping and leisure boating Industry.
We offer the following courses:
- Radar Courses using proper Raymarine display Units (Axiom & E120)
- VHF Radio SRC Courses including exam immediately afterwards
- VHF Radio Refresher Courses using proper VHF Radio sets
- Electronic Navigation Courses using proper display Units
- Radar Training on board your own boat
Our instructor is a British national who also speaks German fluently. His qualifications include:
- Liverpool Technical College as Radio Officer (PMG 1st Class Certificate)
- Marine Radar & Electronics in Hull College of Technology (BOT Certificate)
- Marine Radar Instructor
- Marine Radio SRC Instructor and Examiner
He spent many years at sea as Radio Officer with the South African, Canadian and British Merchant Navies. He was employed in a leading European Aviation Company, his department specialising in Design and Development of Radar Systems. Subsequently he started up PB-MarineTraining, specialised in training Skippers on equipment such as Radar, Plotter, VHF Radio and Electronic Navigation in general.
- Below a few photos of his past experiences.
Practical Radar training on proper equipment
Radar training on the Interboot boatshow
Marine Radio training on the 30 meter yacht Pegasus Blue, between Italy and Sicily
Exchange of experiences with the Water Rescue Service in Aarbon, Switzerland
International Maritime Lecturers Association 2019 on the Aland Islands (Sweden/Finland)
On-board Radar training on lake Constance
Radar training on a commercial shipping simulator, on the Aland Islands (Sweden/Finland)
Euroradar Consortium meet at British Aerospace in Warton for a Radar trial session
Evaluating a Radar film from the Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) of a Phantom Jet plane.