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from £180 per person

Essential Navigation and Seamanship

This course is the perfect introduction or refresher for anyone going afloat on inshore waters, and a stepping stone to the more in-depth Day Skipper shorebased course.

It also complements our on-the-water training such as the Intermediate Powerboat, Start Yachting, Helmsman or Day Skipper courses.

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 is taught over 2 days with exercises to complete along the way. It can be covered as a series of short sessions or over two full days.

Course topics include:

• Charts and publications
• Knots
• Safety
• Engine checks
• Buoyage
• Tidal awareness
• Visual and electronic navigation
• Pilotage
• Rules of the road
• Anchoring
• Weather forecasts
• Passage planning