ESSENTIAL NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP COURSE

This course has been available in the classroom for a few years, but it is now also possible to take it online using the powerful "RYA Interactive" e-learning site but with full personal support from our instuctors only a phone call or email away. However you decide to take the course, it offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

This course is for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving, and it is ideal for those taking short trips into tidal estuaries. It works well in complementing RYA practical on-the-water training, such as the Powerboat Level 2, Start Yachting and Helmsman courses. It is a highly informative course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice. If you decide to take the course online, you will find many interactive exercises to help reinforce the information and lots of chances to try out what you've learned.

In the classroom, the course is taught over 2 days with exercises to complete along the way.

Online you can work through the course at your own speed, whenever and wherever you like. All you need is internet access and your course pack. We will send you the course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD. You will also have full support by email and telephone from our experienced instructors. To view a "taster" of the online course: click here (when the page opens click on Essential Navigation and Seamanship, and then - Get a taste of the course).

Course topics include :

• charts and publications
• safety
• engine checks
• buoyage
• tidal awareness
• visual and electronic navigation
• pilotage
• rules of the road
• anchoring
• weather forecasts
• passage planning

On successful completion of the course you will be awarded the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course Certificate.

The course fee for the classroom based course is £140 which includes the required RYA Course Packup, handouts and refreshments.

The cost of the online course is £90 which also includes the course pack (UK Mainland only - additional postage costs apply for overseas applicants). To book the online course: click here

Alternatively, please contact us to arrange a classroom course on a date to suit your needs.