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RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship

Theory Course

RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship
Theory Course

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  • Flexibility - work anytime, anywhere, at your own speed.
  • Suitable for all - new crews through to budding skippers.
  • Simplicity - easy to use, interactive and full of great graphics.
  • Try and learn - practice what you have learnt in the course. And with no final exam.
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The RYA's Foundation of Seamanship

The RYA Essential Navigation Theory Course provides aspiring boaters and sailors with a basic introduction to navigation and safety. This course is provided via the RYA Interactive website.

Is this course right for you?

This course is ideal for anyone who is new to boating; sailors, powerboaters, sea angler, divers, skippers, and even ocean rowers. It is also useful for experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors, and inshore racers.

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RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore
Course SYLLABUS

Charts, publications and terms:

  • Basic terms
  • Chart overview
  • Introduction to chart datum and depths

Buoyage:

  • Lateral buoys
  • Cardinal buoys
  • Where to find information.

Navigation:

  • Plotting a position
  • Measuring distance and bearing
  • Position fix
  • Heading

Safety:

  • Personal and boat safety equipment
  • Safety procedures and briefing
  • Communications
  • Engine checks
  • Rescue procedure

Anchoring:

  • Where to anchor
  • How to anchor

Tides:

  • Tidal streams
  • Tidal heights

Electronic navigation:

  • GNSS terms
  • GNSS use
  • Using waypoints

Rules of the road:

  • Risk of collision
  • Who gives way

Weather forecasts:

  • Sources of forecast
  • Terms used in forecasts

Pilotage:

  • Harbour information
  • Transits
  • Pilotage plan

Passage planning:

  • SOLAS V requirements
  • Planning, and choosing the right charts
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