The courses are designed to help learn the skills of navigation, pilotage, passage planning and meteorology. They are great as stand alone courses, but also complement our various practical courses.
Whether you are a sailor or drive a power boat, our shorebased courses equip would-be and experienced skippers with enough knowledge, at least in theory, to go afloat and take charge.The next logical step is to attend one of our practical courses.
Course Type: Theory
Required Experience: None
Assumed Knowledge: None
Course Content:
* How to read, use, and understand charts
* Chart terminology
* Anchoring
* The use of position lines
* Rules of the Sea
* Variation & deviation
* Lights and Shapes
* Fixes
* Signals
* Tides & Weather
* VHF procedure
* Pilotage
* Passage planning
* Echo sounders and logs
* Maintaining accurate Logbooks
