Duration:  5 consecutive days or 3 weekends.

Previous Experience Required: None.

Basic Safety & Navigation would be useful.

Certification: At the end of the course students are awarded with an RYA Day Skipper theory course certificate.

Course Overview: 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.

Cost:  £375.00.

Itinerary: 0900 until approximately 1700.

What's Included:

All course materials including the Day Skipper study pack.

Teas & coffees available.

The RYA Day Skipper theory course  is designed for those of you who have little or no experience of the theory side of helming a sailing yacht or motor boating. During the course we will cover the basics of inshore and coastal navigation. Including pilotage, chart work, position fixing, plotting a course to steer, weather forecasting, a knowledge of tides and the International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea.

Course topics include:

1. •the basics of seamanship
   

2. •the essentials of coastal navigation and pilotage
   

3. •chart work
   

4. •electronic charts
   

5. •position fixing
   

6. •plotting a course to steer
   

7. •weather forecasting and meteorology
   

8. •tides
   

9. •collision regulations
   

10. •construction, parts and equipment of a cruising boat
    

11. •emergency and safety procedures including distress calls,use of flares, safety harnesses, lifejackets and liferafts.

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