The Day Skipper Theory course is a comprehensive introduction to navigation.
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.
This is a 5 day course run from our shorebased classroom (minimum of 40 hours plus exams).
Course topics include:
- The basics of seamanship
- The essentials of coastal navigation and pilotage
- Chartwork
- Electronic charts
- Position fixing
- Plotting a course to steer
- Weather forecasting and meteorology
- Tides
- Collision regulations
- Construction, parts and equipment of a cruising boat
- Emergency and safety procedures including distress calls,use of flares, safety harnesses, lifejackets and liferafts
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