RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship Course (Online):

RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship Course (Online) - £175

The RYA Essential Navigation course requires no previous knowledge and can be taken online. This Essential Navigation and Seamanship RYA certificate course is designed to give those who venture out on the sea an introduction to the basic concepts of maritime navigation and is suitable as an introduction to essential navigation techniques for those yachtsmen who would like to ultimately progress on to RYA Day Skipper.

From the comfort of your home you will learn all the essential navigation and seamanship skills:

• Buoyage System 
• Pilotage Techniques
• Weather Forecasts and their sources
• Basic Passage Planning
• Safety
• Basic Rules of the Road
• How tides affect us
• Introduction to GPS and Electronic Charts

The course is aimed at everyone, from those new to sailing including RIBs and other small powerboats, sea anglers and divers right through to experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers. Being online means it’s completely flexible as to when and where you take it and it allows you to work though it at your own speed. Essential Navigation and Seamanship is a great starting point before moving on to more advanced navigation courses such as Day Skipper, it forms a real building block approach to training.  

The course also makes an ideal accompaniment to back up the knowledge required for practical courses whether you’re a new or inexperienced skipper or crew, or just a bit rusty. The beauty of this course is you also get the chance to learn and practice before you do your final test. There’s a taster session on the website so that you can take a look before you sign up.


COURSE FEES INCLUDE:

• Essential Navigation & Seamanship Student Pack
  (course notes, exercises, plotter, chart plotter CD, practice charts & set of dividers)
  
  
• Northern Hemisphere Training Almanac.
  
  
• Access to the RYA Interactive course online.
  
  

To book on the course please click on the RYA logo below, or contact us on +44 (0)1646 602500