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YACHT SECTION >Basic Navigation
This Essential Navigation & Safety 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. The RYA Essential Navigation & Safety course 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. It also complements our on-the-water training such as the Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.
Topics and exercises include:
• Charts & Publications
• Safety
• Engine Checks
• Tidal Awareness
• Visual & Electronic Navigation
• Pilotage
• Rules Of The Road
• Weather Forecasts
• Passage Planning • Buoyage • Anchoring
Course Objective: You will have a basic theoretical knowledge of how to navigate.
Prerequisite: None
Course Dates
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