RYA Essential Navigation Online

The Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course is an aspiring classroom and online course for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving – or pretty much anything else on the water! This course will give you the essential knowledge needed when you’re afloat, from navigation to safety to passage planning. RYA Interactive courses can be taken anytime, anywhere and at your own speed. All you need is a device and the internet.

Description

Previous Experience: None
Assumed Knowledge: None
Duration: At your own pace

The Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course is an aspiring classroom and online course for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving – or pretty much anything else on the water!
This course will give you the essential knowledge needed when you’re afloat, from navigation to safety to passage planning.

RYA Interactive courses can be taken anytime, anywhere and at your own speed. All you need is a device and the internet.

 

Course Content:

  • Charts & Publications

  • Safety

  • Engine Checks

  • Buoyage

  • Tidal Awareness

  • Pilotage

  • Rules of the Road

  • Weather

 

Top 10 Reasons to Take the Online Course:

  1. Flexibility – anytime, anywhere, at your own speed

  2. Suitable for all – new crews through to budding skippers

  3. Safety Essentials – all the essential knowledge for going afloat

  4. Simplicity – easy to use, interactive & full of great graphics

  5. Supporting your Knowledge – an ideal accompaniment to your practical course

  6. Complements other Courses – a great starting point for most other courses

  7. Real Skills – use real skills alongside online technology

  8. Best Advice – written by top RYA instructors

  9. Learn it, Try it, Test it – practice what you’ve learnt

  10. Be Part of it – the RYA’s first fully interactive online course

 

How to Enrol

The course fee which includes the interactive course, the accompanying course pack and access to our instructors. The course can be taken anywhere in the world, however anyone outside of the UK should CONTACT US in the first instance as an additional postage fee will be payable for the course pack.

Pay the fee then email courses@searegs.co.uk or call 01752 408270 to let us know you wish to take the course along with your postal address, so we can register you on RYA Interactive, email you with your log in details and post the student pack.

Please allow time for our office staff to manually register you during working hours. 

We’re here to help with any questions throughout the course.

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