RYA Diesel Engine Maintenance

You will have plenty of hands-on time with our training engines. They are all fully-functional working engines that we use for training purposes.

Each year the Coastguard get hundreds of distress calls about non-functioning engines and related issues. Don’t become one of those calls!

We’ll teach you how to service and maintain engines, including things like changing waterpump impellers, oil and fuel filters, bleeding the fuel system and injectors, diagnosing faults and how to rectify them.

We will highlight which issues are the most commonplace and how to avoid them in the first place. We’ll talk about engine servicing regimes and how to schedule your engine maintenance each year and the parts needed.

With marine engines some parts such as impellers do not have a guaranteed in-use lifespan, they could last a day or a year. So knowing how and when to change these parts will help you avoid typical issues a lot of sailors face each year.

This course really is an essential for all sailors and crew. A failed engine at sea can cause immense stress, so having confidence in your skipper and crews ability to diagnost and resolve issues is a great comfort. Lets face it, no-one wants to make that distress call on the VHF for something which could easily have been avoided.