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Essential Navigation and
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 powerboats, sea
angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and
keelboat sailors and inshore racers. Topics covered
include:-
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• Charts & publications.
• Safety.
• Engine checks.
• Buoyage.
• Tidal awareness.
• Visual and electronic navigation.
• Pilotage.
• Rules of the Road.
• Anchoring.
• Weather forecasts.
• Passage planning. |
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You
will receive a course pack
that includes a chart,
plotter, course handbook,
exercises and an electronic
chart plotter CD. |
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An excellent introduction or refresher taught over
16 hours. Good basic starter course for anyone going
afloat on inshore waters; also a stepping stone to
more in depth RYA courses.
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