RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

No previous experience required,this course is perfect for you if you are new to sailing, motor boating, powerboating, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore small boat owners.

RYA Essential Navigation course pack that includes 2 RYA Training charts. RYA Essential Navigation course handbook and a RYA Electronic course plotter. We also include chart equipment in the form of a Portland plotter and a set of Weems & Plath Ultralight DIVIDERS/COMPASS, 7" with this course free of charge.

Course Structure

· Anchoring

· Buoyage

· Charts and publications

· Engine checks

· Passage planning

· Pilotage

· Rules of the road

· Safety

· VHF Radio

· Pyrotechnics (Distress Signals)

· Tides

· Visual and electronic navigation (GPS)

· Weather forecasts