RYA Navigation courses in Nova Scotia
We offer three RYA Navigational shore based courses – the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship, Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore.
We offer the Essential Navigation and Seamanship course on-line.
We offer the Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore courses during the fall, winter and spring seasons. We can also offer them as intensive 5 day courses at any time of the year. Check the schedule for details.
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RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship
This course offers a great introduction to navigation and safety awareness for new, inexperienced or rusty skippers and crew. In fact it’s for anyone interested in sailing, motor boating, sea angling or diving, and works well in complementing our on-the-water training, such as the Start Yachting and Competent Crew courses.
It’s a highly informative course with lots of opportunities for you to put your new found knowledge into practice. If you decide to take the course online, you will find many interactive exercises to help reinforce the information and lots of chances to try out what you’ve learned.
Course topics include:
- Charts and Publications
- Safety
- Engine checks
- Buoyage
- Tidal awareness
- Visual and electronic navigation
- Pilotage
- Rules of the road
- Anchoring
- Weather forcasts
- Passage planning
Price $195.00.
RYA Day Skipper Theory
This is a comprehensive introduction to cruising for inexperienced skippers. 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. The course is taught over 40 hours with two exam papers. We teach it as a series of evening sessions, or as an intensive week-long course.
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 liferaft
Price $575.00 plus $200 for course material.
RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore Theory
Advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course or equivalent. This is an advanced course that equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages. It allows some time for revision of the basics and then moves on to advanced navigation techniques.
This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore practical exams, concentrating on advanced navigation and meteorology skills.
As with the Day Skipper shorebased course, the RYA’s specially designed chart plotter software will be used during the course to give you a realistic taste of modern electronic navigation.
The course is taught over 40 hours with three exam papers. It can be covered as a series of evening sessions,or as an intensive week-long course.
Course topics include:
- position fixing
- course shaping and plotting
- tidal knowledge
- use of almanacs and admiralty publications
- electronic position finding equipment
- taking and interpreting forecasts
- plotting weather systems
- weather predictions using a barometer and by observation
- collision regulations
- customs and excise regulations for cruising abroad
Price $575.00 plus $200 for course material.
You can request more information about your Nova Scotia RYA Theory course on our Information Request page, and you can register for your Nova Scotia RYA Theory course on our Registration page, or by us phoning toll-free at 1-877-275-8377.
The prices of these comprehensive training courses are all inclusive — Instruction, all study materials, and assessment papers.
