RYA SHOREBASED COURSES
Classroom based theory navigation lessons are a wonderful way to ensure you learn all the basics and essential building blocks for you to become a successful and safe skipper.
Certificate issuing criteria: Basic knowledge of navigation and safety
Format: We provide this shore-based course in the classroom or via bespoke tuition.
ESSENTIAL NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP COURSE
A basic introduction to navigation and safety for anyone new to boating.
Ideal for sailors, powerboaters, sea anglers, divers and boatmasters.
Also useful for experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.
DURATION: 2 DAYS
PRICE: £200
Required experience: None
Minimum duration: 16 hours in the classroom or approximately 8-10 hours online
Minimum age: None
Content
- Charts and publications,
- Safety,
- Engine checks,
- Buoyage,
- Tidal awareness,
- Visual and electronic navigation,
- Pilotage,
- Rules of the road,
- Anchoring,
- Weather forecasts,
- Passage planning
When taking the course, you will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook and exercises.
This classroom course is available through our training centre.
To book on an Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course contact our training centre.
Future dates, evening classes, weekend courses and 1:1 are available, please contact the office for details.
Classroom based theory navigation lessons are a great way to ensure you learn all the basics and essential building blocks for you to become a successful and safe skipper.
Certificate issuing criteria:Background knowledge to skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day.
Format: We provide this shore-based course in the classroom or via bespoke tuition.
RYA DAY SKIPPER THEORY
5 days or 3 weekends.
A comprehensive introduction to chartwork navigation, meteorology and the basics of seamanship ideal for inexperienced skippers.
RYA Day Skipper Theory course equips you with enough knowledge to navigate around familiar waters by day.
A basic knowledge of lights is also included to introduce you to night cruising.
Invaluable for learning how to start making decisions on board and if you are considering taking the Day Skipper practical course.
This course is taught over 5 days with two exam papers,
it can be covered through a series of evening classes, weekend sessions or as a week-long course.
DURATION: 5 DAYS
PRICE: £375
Required experience: Some practical experience is desirable
Minimum duration: 40 hours plus exam time
Minimum age: None
Content
- Nautical Terms
- Seamanship
- Safety
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
- Compass
- Navigational Drawing Instruments
- Position Course and Speed
- Navigational Charts and Publications
- Tides and Tidal Streams
- Chartwork
- Visual Aids to Navigation
- GPS
- Meteorology
- Navigation in Restricted Visibility
- Pilotage
- Marine Environment
- Passage Planning
What’s included: All course materials including RYA Day Skipper theory course notes.
This classroom course is available through our training centre.
To book on a Day Skipper Theory course contact our training centre.
Future dates, evening classes, weekend courses and 1:1 are available, please contact the office for details.
Classroom based theory navigation lessons are a great way to ensure you learn all the basics and essential building blocks for you to become a successful and safe skipper.
Certificate issuing criteria: Background knowledge to skipper a yacht on coastal passages by day & night.
Format: We provide this shore-based course in the classroom or via bespoke tuition.
RYA COASTAL SKIPPER /YACHTMASTER COASTA
This course provides advanced training for more experienced skippers.
The course equips you to navigate on coastal and offshore passages.
This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Yachtmaster Coastal and Offshore practical exams, concentrating on advanced navigation and meteorology skills.
Please note, you must already have your RYA Day Skipper Theory certificate, or equivalent knowledge, before attending this course.
DURATION: 6 DAYS
PRICE: £400
Required experience: Knowledge to the level of Day Skipper Shore-based.
Minimum duration: 40 hours plus exam time
Minimum age: None
Content
- Position fixing
- Course shaping and plotting
- Tidal knowledge
- Use of almanacs and admiralty publications
- Electronic position finding equipment
- Taking and interpreting forecasts
- Plotting weather systems
- Weather predictions using a barometer
This classroom course is available through our training centre.
To book on a RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Theory course contact our training centre.
Future dates and bespoke/1:1 tuition are available, please contact us for details.
Classroom based theory navigation lessons are a great way to ensure you learn all the basics and essential building blocks for you to become a successful and safe skipper.
Certificate issuing criteria: Background knowledge to skipper a yacht on ocean passages.
Format: We provide this shore-based course in the classroom or via bespoke tuition.
YACHTMASTER OCEAN THEORY COURSE
A course in celestial navigation, worldwide meteorology and passage planning, which also unravels the mysteries of the sextant.
DURATION: 5 DAYS
PRICE: £450
Required experience: Navigation to Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster Offshore Shore-based standard.
Minimum duration: 40 hours plus exam time
Minimum age: None
Content
- The earth and the celestial sphere;
- Practical guide to use and care of sextant at sea;
- Meridian altitudes;
- Sun, star and other sights,
- Ocean passage planning
This classroom course is available through our training centre.
To book on a RYA Yachtmaster Ocean Theory Course contact our training centre.
Future dates and bespoke/1:1 tuition are available, please contact us for details.
RYA RADAR COURSE
DURATION: 1 DAY
PRICE: £130PP Group class of 4
Required experience: None
Minimum duration: One day
Minimum age: None
Content
- Switching on and setting up.
- Adjusting brilliance, contrast, gain, range and tuning
- Refining the picture.
- Adjust the sea clutter and rain clutter controls to suit prevailing conditions
- Head up, North up Course up modes
- Understanding the picture
- The factors affecting the clarity of the visual image
- Radar reflectors
- Understanding what affects the received image
- Types of reflectors
- Position fixing with radar
- Use of VRM and EBL
- Plotting the vessel’s position using radar.
- Pilotage by radar
- How to prepare a simple pilotage plan including use of clearing ranges
- Execution of a blind pilotage using radar
- Collision avoidance
- How to determine the risk of collision with another vessel: CPA, course and speed
- The existence of automatic radar plotting aids (ARPA & MARPA)
This classroom course is available through our training centre.
To book on a RYA Radar Theory course contact our training centre.
Future dates and bespoke/1:1 tuition are available, please contact us for details.
Classroom based theory navigation lessons are a great way to ensure you learn all the basics and essential building blocks for you to become a successful and safe skipper.