Course info
This course gives you a basic introduction to navigation and safety, which is suitable for anyone new to boating: sailors, powerboaters, sea anglers, divers and boatmasters alike. It is also useful for experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.
This is a classroom-based course.
Course topics include:
- Charts and Publications
- Safety
- Engine checks
- Buoyage
- Tidal awareness
- Visual and electronic navigation
- Pilotage
- Rules of the road
- Anchoring
- Weather forcasts
- Passage planning
