RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship
Duration: Two days
Cost per person: £185 (minimum of 2 students)
One to one tuition: £260
Prerequisites: None
An introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew. This course is for anyone new to powerboating or indeed sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.
This course is the perfect introduction or refresher for anyone going afloat on inshore waters, and a stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper shorebased course for those using coastal waters. It also complements our on-the-water training courses at Powerboat Intermediate level.
You will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD. This is a highly practical course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice using the exercises provided. This two day course is taught over 16 hours with exercises to complete along the way.
Course topics include:
- charts and publications
- safety
- engine checks
- buoyage
- tidal awareness
- visual and electronic navigation
- pilotage
- rules of the road
- anchoring
- weather forecasts
- passage planning