Essential Navigation
This course
A basic introduction to navigation and safety for anyone new to boating: sailors, powerboaters, sea anglers, divers and boatmasters. Also useful for experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.
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 forcasts, passage planning.
Certificate issuing criteria
Basic knowledge of navigation and safety.
Format
Can be taken in the classroom or online
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.
Both the classroom course and the online course are available through our training centres. Contact a training centre or visit their website to find more details.
However you take the course, you will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook and exercises.
Price:
£89
Dates: We run courses weekly and availability changes weekly, to get the latest dates live now. Please WhatsApp us on the contact us now or fill in the form. We are very quick to reply.
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