RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course - an introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew
£100.00
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. Course topics include:
- charts and publications
- safety
- engine checks
- buoyage
- tidal awareness
- visual and electronic navigation
- pilotage
- rules of the road
- anchoring
- weather forecasts
- passage planning
RYA Day Skipper Theory Course - a comprehensive introduction to cruising for inexperienced skippers
£325.00
This course equips you with enough knowledge to navigate around familiar waters by day. A basic knowledge of lights is also included to introduce you to night cruising. Course topics include:
- the basics of seamanship
- the essentials of coastal navigation and pilotage
- chartwork
- electronic charts
- position fixing
- plotting a course to steer
- weather forecasting and meteorology
- tides
- collision regulations
- construction, parts and equipment of a cruising boat
- emergency and safety procedures including distress calls,use of flares, safety harnesses, lifejackets and liferafts
RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore - advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course
£400.00
This course equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages. It allows some time for revision of the basics and then moves on to advanced navigation techniques. Course topics include:
- position fixing
- course shaping and plotting
- tidal knowledge
- use of almanacs and admiralty publications
- electronic position finding equipment
- taking and interpreting forecasts
- plotting weather systems
- weather predictions using a barometer and by observation
- collision regulations
- customs and excise regulations for cruising abroad
RYA First Aid Course - our one-day course covers all the usual first aid subjects, but from a boating perspective. It is aimed at anyone who goes afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross channel passages
£80.00
A First Aid certificate is a requirement for all RYA instructors and Yachtmasters.
In a medical emergency a little first aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives, especially in remote locations. This one-day course is designed to provide a working knowledge of first aid for people using small craft and to support skippers. Course topics include:
- the recovery position in a confined space
- CPR, including the drowning protocol
- bleeding, fractures and burns
- pre-existing medical conditions
- cold shock and hypothermia from immersion and/or exposure
- seasickness and dehydration
- medical assistance or advice by VHF
- helicopter rescue
- Cat C First Aid Kits
The course is valid for all instructors and yachtmasters add also accepted by HSE for Emergency First Aid At Work.