RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

The Basic Navigation and Safety course has been renamed to Essential Navigation and Seamanship. With the new name comes a new way of taking it…

The course has been available in the classroom for a few years, but now it is possible to take it online too through our RYA Interactive e-Learning site. However you decide to take the course, it offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

This course is for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving, and works well in complementing our on-the-water training, such as the Powerboat Level 2, Start Yachting and Helmsman courses.

This is a highly informative course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice. If you decide to take the course online, you will find many interactive exercises to help reinforce the information and lots of chances to try out what you've learned.

In the classroom, 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 Structure

•charts and publications

•safety

•engine checks

•buoyage

•tidal awareness

•visual and electronic navigation

•pilotage

•rules of the road

•anchoring

•weather forecasts

•passage planning

Useful Information

Cost for 2015/16 is £180 which includes your RYA Students pack.