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ESSENTIAL NAVIGATION & SEAMANSHIP


An introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew


This course is for anyone new to sailing, motor boating including RIBs and other small powerboats, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers. It complements our on-the-water training such as the Powerboat Level 2, Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.


Course topics include ³ charts and publications ³ safety ³ engine checks ³ buoyage ³ tidal awareness ³ visual and electronic navigation


³ pilotage ³ rules of the road ³ anchoring ³ weather forecasts ³ passage planning


RECOMMENDED BOOK


You will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD. This is a highly practical course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice using the exercises provided. The course takes 16 hours in the


RYA An Introduction to Navigation


classroom or it can be taken as a distance learning course. Now also available as a fully interactive course with engaging graphics and activities. See www.ryainteractive.org for a taster.


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Navigation and Specialist Short Courses 2011/2012


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