RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

The Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course is an inspiring classroom and online course for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving – or pretty much anything else on the water! This course will give you the essential 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.

Top 10 reasons to take the online course:

1. Flexibility – anytime, anywhere, at your own speed

2. Suitable for all – new crews through to budding skippers

3. Safety Essentials – all the essential knowledge for going afloat

4. Simplicity – easy to use, interactive and full of great graphics

5. Supporting your knowledge – an ideal accompaniment to your practical course

6. Complements other courses – a great starting point before more advanced courses

7. Real skills – use real skills alongside online technology

8. Best advice – written by top RYA instructors, created by award winning designers

9. Learn it, try it, test it – practice what you’ve learnt before taking the test

10. Be part of it – the RYA’s 1st fully interactive online course