Royal Yachting Association Basic Navigation and Safety course

 

The Basic Navigation and Safety course was introduced in September 2007 and is aimed at a wide audience, including anyone new to sailing, motor boating, 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 and passage planning and is a stepping stone to more in-depth courses. 

A course completion certificate is issued given satisfactory course attendance and performance on the course. 

The Basic Navigation certificate can now be used by certain ICC holders to apply for a certificate endorsed for coastal waters.

 

An RYA course completion certificate is awarded to those who attend.