RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

This course is aimed at those who don't necessarily sail or want to sail but who have an alternative interest which involves the marine environment, such as diving, kayaking or sea fishing for example.

It offers introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

This course is suitable for anyone new to sailing and motor boating (including RIBs), sea angling and diving, as well as dinghy, keelboat sailors and inshore racers.

The 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.

It also compliments RYA on-the-water training such as the Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.

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.

The course is taught over 16 hours with exercises to complete along the way. It can be covered as a series of short sessions or over two full days.

Course topics include:

•charts and publications

•engine checks

•tidal awareness

•pilotage

•anchoring

•passage planning

•safety

•buoyage

•visual and electronic navigation

•rules of the road

•weather forecasts