RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

The essential navigation and seamanship course is an introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

This course is for anyone new to sailing, motor boating including RIBs and other small powerboats, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.

It is the perfect introduction or refresher for anyone going afloat on inshore waters, and a stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper shorebased course and also complements the RYA on-the-water training such as the Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Competent Crew or Helmsman courses.

This is a highly practical course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice using the exercises provided.

Course Structure

charts and publications

safety

engine checks

buoyage

tidal awareness

visual and electronic navigation

pilotage

rules of the road

anchoring

weather forecasts

passage planning

Useful Information

We appreciate that finding time for courses can be difficult therefore we offer this course over 5 evenings from 6.30pm to 9.45pm