RYA Basic Navigation & Safety Shorebased Course
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Course Aim
The course aims to give students an awareness and knowledge of basic navigation
techniques and safety in just 2 days.
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Duration
2 days, normally weekends, 9 to 5.
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Prior experience required
None
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Course Content
- Charts & publications
- Safety
- Engine checks
- Buoyage
- Tidal awareness
- Visual & electronic navigation
- Pilotage
- Rules of the road
- Anchoring
- Weather forecasts
- Passage planning
The Basic Navigation & Safety course was launched by the RYA in 2007, and is aimed at a wide audience, including anyone new to sailing, motor
boating, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat
sailors and inshore racers.
This course is the perfect stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper
shorebased course, or to courses on the water such as the Intermediate
Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.
Please call us on 01202 661881, or
contact us for further details and course dates.