RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

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  • Enjoyed the course very much and had excelent support when required from my seavoice tutor, I would recomend them to all
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Course

Online

£ 89 VAT exempt

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Class hours

    10h

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Online campus

    Yes

Suitable for: Sailers, Motor boaters, Powerboaters, Sea Anglers, Divers in fact anyone that takes to the open seas.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Online

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

The course is for anyone new to sailing or powerboating and is an excellent foundation course.

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4.0
  • Enjoyed the course very much and had excelent support when required from my seavoice tutor, I would recomend them to all
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Course rating

Recommended

Centre rating

Annonymous

4.0
13/09/2011
What I would highlight: Enjoyed the course very much and had excelent support when required from my seavoice tutor, I would recomend them to all
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • Navigation
  • Seamanship
  • Chartwork
  • Weather
  • Pilotage
  • GPS
  • Tides
  • Colregs
  • Radio
  • Safety

Teachers and trainers (1)

Paul Harrison

Paul Harrison

Assessor

Course programme

Course review:

This course is an excellent introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced, rusty skippers or crew. It is the perfect stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper and Yactmaster theory courses.

Previous Experience Required: This course is perfect for you if are new to sailing, motor boating, powerboating, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.

Course Content:

  • Anchoring
  • Buoyage
  • Charts and publications
  • Engine checks
  • Passage planning
  • Pilotage
  • Rules of the road
  • Safety
  • Pyrotechnics (Distress Signals)
  • Tidal awareness
  • Visual and electronic navigation (GPS)
  • Weather forecasts

You will receive a course pack whitch includes a chart plotter, Dividers and a course handbook, excercises and an electronic chart plotter CD. You will also be in constant contact with your course tutor via Phone, email support and by post if you get stuck during the course, you will be sent a Stamp addressed envelope to return your chart work and RYA exercises for marking and feedback on your progress throughout the course.

The On-line course offers you approximately 6 hours of interactive learning, and once you have registred for the course you will have 12 months to pass all the modules, only then will the RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship certificate be awarded to you.

Other items you will need to complete this course are the following:

A Notebook, soft leaded pencils (2B), pencil sharpener and a soft rubber

This course is NOW available through Seavoice Training

RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

£ 89 VAT exempt