RYA Essential Nav & Seamanship Course
RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship Course
£199.00
Required experience: None
Duration: 2 Days (16hrs)
Minimum age: 12+ (anyone under 16 needs to be accompanied by a parent/guardian)
RYA Essential Nav & Seamanship Course
This 2-day course provides a basic introduction to navigation and safety for anyone new to boating: sailors, power boaters, sea anglers, divers and boat masters.
The course is useful for experienced dinghy, keelboat and power boaters wanting to enhance their knowledge.
Many inland candidates attending an RYA Powerboat Instructor course will also find the Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course highly useful.
Note - Many of our student choose to study this course online, at a time and pace to suite them. However, this is the classroom version of the same course if you prefer to learn over a 2 day period in a more traditional setting.
Course Syllabus
This 2 day course, includes both theory and practical elements using a variety of resources; Training Charts, Publications and equipement. The key topics we cover are:
Charts and Publications
Safety
Engine checks
Buoy age
Tidal awareness
Visual and electronic navigation
Pilotage
Rules of the road
Anchoring
Weather forcasts
Passage planning
Why train with us?
Learn in a way that suites your learning style - We advertise both the classroom based RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Skills course as well as the online version of the same course, enabeling you to attend this course at a time or location that suites you best.
All training materials included in your course fee - All candidates are provided their own set of RYA Training Charts, Dividers and RYA Handy plotter - all of which can be taken away with you!
Scenarios - We incorporate scenarios into all of our courses making them more interactive and giving you the opportunity to practise in a realistic way.
What's INCLUDED in your course fee:
Free Parking
Free Unlimited Tea and Coffee
RYA Training Charts, Dividers, RYA Handy plotter, RYA Northern Hemisphere Training Alamanac - all of which can be taken away with you!
Free stationary to make notes & complete exercises with
What's NOT included as part of your course fee:
Lunch (please bring it with you)