Your boat licence: out on the water with family and friends
Skipper a motor boat up to 150 hp, including water-ski towing. Learn on your phone with simulations and practice exams, and arrive at the exam ready.
- Minimum age
- 17
- Theory exam
- Seamanship B · 60 minutes
- The licence allows
- Motor boats up to 150 hp
- Bonus
- Water-ski and banana towing for private use
Everything you need to pass, in one place
- 🤝 A personal instructor guiding you all the way to your licenceFrom the theory, through booking the exam and the practical lessons, to the test on the water
- All 20 Seamanship B syllabus topics in short lessons
- Simulations: right of way, night lights and buoys
- Basic navigation and nautical charts, step by step
- Timed practice exams with an explanation for every answer
- Test preparation: coming alongside, man overboard and oral questions
- The five test knots, animated
Not another question booklet
Most exam prep in Israel is memorising a question pool. We teach the logic behind the questions.
Simulations, not memorising
Watch the boats move, make the call yourself and get animated feedback. That is how it sticks.
Learn on your phone
Lessons of a few minutes; pick up exactly where you left off. No classroom, no timetable.
Know when you are ready
A readiness meter per topic shows what to strengthen, so you never walk into the exam guessing.
Ready for the water test too
Course simulation, oral questions and knots. The part almost nobody prepares you for.
Up to date with the 2026 syllabus
Built on the official syllabus and updated when the regulations change.
What you learn: the Seamanship B exam
The course follows the official Israeli Shipping and Ports Authority syllabus (in force from 2026). A 60-minute computer theory exam, followed by a practical test on the water.
Theory exam topics
Proficiency = know it in depth · Familiarity = know the principles
- Israeli coasts: marinas, lighthouses, areas closed to boats
- The nautical chart: position, nautical units and symbols
- The marine compass and its errors
- Basic navigation: distance, time and speed
- Weather: seasons, storm signs, winds on the Sea of Galilee
- Engines: basic faults, cases and responses
- Steering: outboard vs. inboard engines
- Rules of the road, lights, shapes and distress signals
- Port regulations: marine accidents and reporting
- Mandatory documents and equipment on board
- Buoyage: harbour entrances, warnings and fuel berths
- Refuelling and starting the engine, emergency stop
- Beaching: surf, anchor and oars
- Towing and towing water-sports equipment
- Day and night navigation, lookout and judging distance
- First aid and CPR
- Code flags A, B, O
- Firefighting and fire equipment on board
- The duty to save lives at sea
- Anchors and anchoring
The practical test: what to prepare for
- Coming alongside a pier and mooring, and a bow approach to within one metre
- Open-sea navigation by compass course and by points of the compass
- Getting on the plane and turning safely relative to wind and waves
- Approaching a buoy as in "man overboard"
- Oral questions for up to 10 minutes, including engine situations
- Knots: rescue knot, double round turn, clove hitch, cleat hitch and double ring knot
At the test you are also asked oral questions on all the theory. The course has dedicated practice for this.
Meshit 12 · Motor boat
One payment, full access to the course for 6 months from purchase. The price does not include practical lessons, Shipping and Ports Authority fees or the test fee.
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