RYA Radar

RYA Radar Courses are held at Elite Sailing’s comfortable classroom at Chatham Marina in Kent – just 45 minutes from Central London. Alternatively you can take a radar course on your own radar-equipped vessel. This is an enoyable and informative introduction to marine radar and its use for collision avoidance and pilotage for owners and operators.

This course will help you to make good use of your expensive equipment and so make your boating safer and more enjoyable. It will explain the basic technology in simple, practical language so you can understand the jargon and talk sensibly to technicians and sales people. It will help you to appreciate the factors that determine the detection performance, accuracy and resolution of a radar. It will examine the IRPCS as they apply to radar. Finally it will give you formal training in use of a radar for assessment of collision risk, actions to be taken to avoid close-quarters situations and for pilotage at night or in restricted visibility.