RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship Course – Royal Dorset Yacht Club

The course has been available in the classroom for a few years, but now it is possible to take it online too through our RYA Interactive e-learning site.

However you decide to take the course, it offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.

This course is for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving. It’s also the perfect stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper shorebased course or our on-the-water courses such as the Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.

This is 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.

In the classroom, the course is taught over 16 hours with exercises to complete along the way. It can be covered as a series of short sessions or over two full days.

Online the course will take around five to six hours, but the beauty of it is that you can work through it at your own speed, whenever and wherever you like. All you need is internet access and your course pack.

You will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD.

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

Cost & Dates: Please call 0845 058 3935 or email ben@bhmarine.co.uk for prices, we offer very competitive prices and will match and beat our competitors.