RYA Essential Seamanship and Navigation
The Essential Navigation and Seamanship course provides a basic awareness and understanding of navigation and safety, ideal for anyone new to boating or looking to take the ICC (International Certificate of Competence).
We offer this as an online interactive course which takes approximately 8-10 hours to complete.
Previous experience Required
- No age restriction
- No previous experience or assumed knowledge required
Course Syllabus covers the following
- Anchoring
- Buoyage
- Charts and Publications
- Passage planning
- Pilotage
- Rules of the road (Collision Regulations or Coll Regs)
- Safety Engine checks
- Tidal awareness
- Visual & Electronic navigation
- Weather forecasts
- The main components of a radar set
- How a radar set measures distance
- How a radar set measures bearings
- The limitations imposed by the power, antenna size and display size of a typical small craft radar
- Switch on a typical small craft radar set; adjust its brilliance, contract, gain, range and tuning