RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

Duration: Between the online tutorials and exercises most sailors take about 16 hours.

Cost: €120

Location: This online course can be taken at your computer at home or on the move

Requirements: This is an Introductory Course suitable for all water users with no navigational experience

This course offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew. In fact it’s for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving, and works well in complementing our on-the-water training, such as own boat tuition or dinghy tuition. It’s a highly informative course and you will find many interactive exercises to help reinforce the information and plenty of chances to try out what you’ve learned.

Essential Navigation & Seamanship course

This online course works through RYA Interactive eLearning site.

Course topics include:

?Charts and Publications

?Safety

?Engine checks

?Buoyage

?Tidal awareness

?Visual and electronic navigation

?Pilotage

?Rules of the road

?Anchoring

?Weather forcasts

?Passage planning

You will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD. Online the course will take around six hours, with extra time spent offline to complete course work the beauty of it is that you can work through it at your own speed, whenever and wherever you like.