Essential Navigation & Seamanship Courses

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 topics include:

charts and publications
safety
engine checks
buoyage
tidal awareness
visual and electronic navigation
pilotage
rules of the road
anchoring
weather forecasts
passage planning

Course options:

We appreciate that finding time for courses can be difficult therefore we offer a range of course options to suit your needs:

1 weekend - 9.30am to 5.30pm each day
6 evenings - 1 evening per week 6.30pm to 10.00pm

1 Weekend - £160

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6 Evenings - £160

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