RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

The Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course is an inspiring on-line course for anyone interested in sailing, sea kayaking, motor boating, jet skiing, sea angling or diving - or pretty much anything else on the water!

This course will give you the essential knowledge needed when you’re afloat, from navigation to safety and seamanship to passage planning.

A comprehensive course pack is included and contains as two exercise charts, course handbook, exercises work-book, RYA HandyPlotter and a set of dividers.

Course Structure

The basics of seamanship:

- Nautical terms

- Position plotting and heading

- Chartwork

- Tides

- Safety

- Electronic navigation

Pilotage:

- Passage planning

- Collision Regulations

- Buoyage

- Weather forecasting

- Anchoring

- Emergencies