Spanish Boat Licence

What is the Spanish Boat Licence?

This 4-hour practical course for the Spanish Boat Licence gives you the basic skills you need to legally drive a powerboat of up to 6 metres waterline length (LWL) in Spain. The course provides a practical introduction to boat handling, safety equipment and preparing the boat and crew to go out on the water.

The course lasts 4 hours on the water with an additional 2 hours study online. During July and August, we run this course three times a week, with pick up in either Denia (El Portet) or Javea (Nou Fontana). The Boat School course to obtain the the Spanish Boat Licence is taught in small groups.

Is this course for me?

This course is suitable for beginners and for drivers with experience who are looking for formal certification to operate a Spanish-flagged pleasure craft in Spain.

The Spanish Boat Licence is valid for driving:

– Motor boats up to 6 meters overall length (LOA)
– Jetskis / Personal Watercraft (PWC) all sizes
– During daylight hours
– Up to 2 nautical miles from a port, marina or safe haven

Open to all nationalities. You don’t have to be a Spanish citizen or resident to obtain the Spanish Boat Licence.
You can drive either your own boat or a rented boat with this licence.

How do I make a reservation?

This course is only for you.With The Boat School, you can choose to book your Spanish Boat License course in an open group or rent a powerboat and get training on the boat you hire. We calll this second option a rental/course pack.

Boats used in training for this kind of course have to be registered with the Spanish Maritime Authority. For this reason, we can’t offer own boat tuition for Boat Licence courses.

Open groups

With an open group booking, you book a place on a course and we’ll admit up to a maximum of five students onto that same course (depending on boat size). The price of a seat on an open course includes fuel and mooring fees away from our base.

The price per person in an open group is 180€.

Group bookings

With our online booking system, you can reserve between one and five seats on a course. When 5 students book a course together, we consider this a “whole boat booking”; this course is only for you. When you book more than one place on a course, the online reservation system automatically applies the following discounts. 

1 person: 180€
2 people: 170€
3 people: 160€
4 people: 150€
5 people: 140€

If you plan on making a group booking, we suggest that you get the following details for each participant before you start the booking.

Full name, including first name and family name (in that order); these names should be exactly as they appesar on the national identitity document that the student generally carries (national ID document, passport, etc).

National identity document or passport number.

Course calendar

We run open groups on a regular basis during the whole year. We run at least 2 courses every month in the low and mid seasons. We run several courses every month during July and August. During the seummer months, we run courses from both Denia and Jávea.

Please note that the minimum age for this course is 16.

Whole boat booking and private tuition

You can also have a “whole boat booking” for a private group of family and friends or even just for yourself!

Please contact us for whole boat bookings. We can arrange dates and times to fit in with your plans. We also have larger boats available for whole boat bookings.

Passengers

The rules under which we operate don’t allow “passengers” on the course; everyone on the course needs to participate!

What’s included?

Your Spanish Boat Licence course with The Boat School includes:

• Use of light-weight inflatable life jackets
• Cold water on the boat
• Fuel and mooring fees
• Spanish Boat Licence certificate
• Between 10% and 20% discount on future rentals for selected boats

What’s not included

Meals are not included
Medical certificate (budget between 30€ and €40 per person)

Requirements

This course is suitable for beginners and for drivers with experience who are looking for formal certification to operate a Spanish-flagged pleasure craft in Spain.

The minimum age for this course is 16. Candidates under the age of 18 will need a consent form signed by a parent or guardian.

You will need a medical certificate before we can issue you with your Spanish Boating Licence. For the Spanish Boating Licence, you’ll need a simple medical check up and a medical certificate issued by a driver’s medical centre. The check up is done in English, takes 15 minutes and costs about 30€. You can do the check up on the day of your course.

Training boats we use for Spanish Boat Licence courses

We have a number of different vessels in our fleet that have been specifically chosen and equipped for teaching powerboat courses, including:

Super 8
a beneteau Flyer 8 Spacedeck (2021)

Fifty 5
a Zodiac Open 5.5 RIB (rigid inflatable boat)

If you book a place on an open course, the boat we’ll use for training will depend on the number of students on the course and on the weather conditions. 

If you choose a course/rental pack, you can choose the boat. In this case, the price of the course will depend on the boat you select. You should note that not all our vessels are available in the low and mid seasons.

You can rent “Fifty 5” with the Spanish Boat Licence. You can even choose to do a course in the morning and rent the boat in the afternoon.