RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

Weekend or weekday RYA training courses, based in Southampton, Hamble and Lancashire

This 2 day course provides an introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

The course is for anyone new to sailing, motor boating including RIBs and other small powerboats, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers

It 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.

The Basic Navigation & Safety Course also complements the RYA Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.

The syllabus includes charts and publications, safety, engine checks, buoyage, tidal awareness, visual and electronic navigation, pilotage, rules of the road, anchoring, weather forecasts and passage planning.

This is a highly practical course with lots of opportunities foryou to put your new found knowledge into practice using the exercises provide