Upgrade your qualification to Day Skipper

• Basic seamanship and terms
• Introduction to chartwork
• Latitude and longitude
• Position fixing
• Using a Portland plotter
• Tidal heights
• Tidal streams
• Secondary ports
• Compass variation
• Dead reckoning
• Estimated position
• Electronic charts
• Using GPS
• Basic use of RADAR
• Working out a course to steer
• Buoyage and pilotage
• Safety and actions in fog
• Meteorology
• Passage planning
• Collision regulations
• Passage making

Our courses are not videos or PowerPoint slide shows but lessons that include fully animated graphics with optional voiceover. Voice overs can become irritating which is why we give you the choice to listen, read and listen or read. With a video teaching methods, you have to rewind if you miss something. Our animations have step forward and step back buttons or you can check what you have heard in the included text.

Navathome has been teaching RYA courses online for over ten years and has developed good systems and methods for teaching that really work for our students.

• Fully animated lessons
• Work on any browser or device
• Free lessons on Radar and boat handling
• 10 years developing RYA courses
• 6 months initial access extendable
• 6 months extensions £30
• Extend your course even if it has expired
• Friendly instructors available 7 days a week
• Help via e-mail, Skype or telephone
• Two years access to the revision course
• MCA RYA approved courses
• Full time instructors 7 days a week
• 10% discount on double bookings
• 15% discount on 3 or more bookings
• Discount vouchers for future courses