Most of our navigation courses can be taken in the classroom or online;
BEGINNER
- RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship (a short introduction to tides and charts for sailors or powerboaters).
- RYA Day Skipper Shorebased (a more comprehensive introduction to chart, tides, weather, seamanship and the rules of the road).
- RYA CEVNI Test (a short test on European Inland waterways regulations. Once passed, CEVNI can be endorsed to an ICC for those wanting to go boating in Europe).
INTERMEDIATE
- RYA Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased A more advanced course in coastal and offshore navigation for those who are already at Day Skipper standard and have some experience of putting it into practice.
- RYA Radar A short (one-day) course covering the use of Radar for small craft.
ADVANCED
- RYA Ocean Yachtmaster Shorebased An advanced course in astro navigation and world wide meterology. This course principally deals with using the sextant and the relevent publications.
- MCA Master 200 & OOW 500 Bespoke preparation towards the MCA oral exam (for existing Yachtmasters).
Course |
Days |
Online Option |
Leisure Craft | Commercial Leisure craft | Super Yacht | Work Boat | Ocean Rower |
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BEGINNER |
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RYA Essential Navigation | 2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |||
RYA Day Skipper Shorebased | 5 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
CEVNI (Inland ICC) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ||||
INTERMEDIATE |
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RYA Radar | 1 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ||
RYA/MCA Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased | 6 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
ADVANCED |
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RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Ocean Shorebased | 5 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
MCA Master 200 (code) & OOW 500 (yacht) | 5 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |||
MCA OOW 3000 (yacht) | 5 | ✅ | |||||
MCA Celestial Navigation | 5 | ✅ | ✅ | ||||
MCA Chief Mate (yacht) | 5 | ✅ | |||||
MCA Master 500 (yacht) | 5 | ✅ | |||||
MCA Master 500 (workboat) | 5 | ✅ | |||||
MCA Master 3000 (yacht) | 5 | ✅ |