RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

The RYA Basic Navigation course is designed to give students an understanding of navigation in a fun and safe environment. This course focuses on developing your understanding of chart work, tides, rules of the road and passage planning. It will help enhance your knowledge as a boater and will hopfully give you that little bit extra confidence to go to that harbour or creek that you’ve always wanted to go to.

You have two ways to undertake this course, in your own time online or face to face with an Ocean Sports Tuition instructor at our class room in Southampton.

What will I learn?

Basic knowledge of meteorology,charts, anchoring, safety, buoyage,navigation, weather pilotage, passage planning, rules on the water and electronic navigation.

Course Schedule:

We run this course is two formats either in our classroom or online:

Saturday & Sunday from 09:00 – 17:00 – £199.00

Online – £99.00

Course Includes:

•All course material

•Plotter & Dividers

•RYA Basic Navigation hand book

Do I need previous experience?

No this course is suitable for all students wishing to further their knowledge base, you may also be thinking about attending an RYA Day Skipper shore based course.