RYA Navigation Theory
Essential Navigation and Seamanship
This course offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new or inexperienced skippers and crew, and those wanting to refresh their skills. In fact it’s for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving, and works well in complementing our on-the-water training, such as the Powerboat Level 2, Start Yachting and Helmsman courses.
It’s a highly informative course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice. If you decide to take the course online, you will find many interactive exercises to help reinforce the information and lots of chances to try out what you’ve learned.
This course is run either as an evening class once a week for 8 weeks, or alternatively over a two days. The course has a maximum of 12 participants. Courses are run in the yacht club at New Quay.
Course Topics Include
• Charts and Publications
• Safety
• Engine checks
• Buoyage
• Tidal awareness
• Visual and electronic navigation
• Pilotage
• Rules of the road
• Anchoring
• Weather forecasts
• Passage planning
RYA Navigation Theory
Day Skipper
A comprehensive introduction to cruising for inexperienced skippers.
This 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.
This course is run either as an evening class once a week for 22 weeks, or alternatively over a five days. The course has a maximum of 12 participants. Courses are run in the yacht club at New Quay.
Topics covered include
•the basics of seamanship
•the essentials of coastal navigation and pilotage
•chartwork
•electronic charts
•position fixing
•plotting a course to steer
•weather forecasting and meteorology
•tides
•collision regulations
•construction, parts and equipment of a cruising boat
•emergency and safety procedures including distress calls,use of flares, safety harnesses, lifejackets and liferafts
RYA Navigation Theory
Yachtmaster
/Coastal Skipper
Advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course. This course equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages.
This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Yachtmaster™ Coastal and Yachtmaster™ Offshore practical exams, concentrating on advanced navigation and meteorology skills.
This course is run either as an evening class once a week for 22 weeks, or alternatively over a seven days. The course has a maximum of 12 participants. Courses are run in the yacht club at New Quay.
Topics Covered include
• 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 and by observation
• collision regulations
• customs and excise regulations for cruising abroad