The one thing you normally have at sea is thinking time,travelling say 8-9 knots in a boat against 115kts in a plane.
The important thing that is mandatory for a PPL is obtaining a licence,believe it or not,in the UK a total plonker with no knowledge of the sea ,nav,collision regs ,met, etc, can buy a million pound boat and drive it away without a licence.
The yachtmaster offshore,(which my wife and I have) is not mandatory,amazing!
What sometimes happens is they take the wife and friends away for the weekend,land up on a sandbank or worse,frighten themselves s**tl**s,then sell the boat.
Lister
