RYA Day Skipper Theory

RYA Day Skipper Theory Online Course is a brilliant online course for anyone interested in sailing, or motor boating. This course will give you the fundamental knowledge needed when you’re afloat, from navigation to safety and seamanship to passage planning.

RYA Interactive courses can be taken anytime, anywhere and at your own speed. All you need is a computer and the internet.

Course Structure

The basics of seamanship

•The essentials of coastal navigation and pilotage

•Chart work

•Electronic charts

•Position fixing

•Plotting a course to steer

•Weather forecasting and meteorology

•Tides

•Collision regulations

•Construction, parts and equipment of a cruising boat

•Emergency and safety procedures including distress calls,use of flares, safety harnesses, lifejackets and liferafts