Party: Essential Navigation and Seamanship

Party: Essential Navigation and Seamanship

Dates: March 3 18.00 - 20.30hrs
March 5 09.00 - 16.30hrs
March 10 18.00 - 20.30hrs
March 12 09.00 - 16.30hrs
If you are interested but these days do not suit you please still register your interest as future courses will be scheduled.
This course is an introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew.
Applicable to sailing, motor boating including RIBs and other small power boats, sea angling and diving as well as experienced dinghy and keelboat sailors and inshore racers.
It is a perfect introduction or refresher for anyone going afloat on inshore waters and a stepping stone to the more indepth Day Skipper shorebased course.
Participants will receive a course pack which includes a chart, plotter, dividers, course handbook, exercises and an electronic chart plotter CD.
This is a highly practical course with lots of oppotunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice using the exercises provided.
The course is taught over 16 hours and topics include
Charts and publications
safety
engine checks
buoyage
tidal wareness
visual and electronic navigation
pilotage
rules of the road
anchoring
weather forecasts
passage planning