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November is a great time to develop your
maritime knowledge in preparation for next year’s boating season.
Orcel Navigation has a purpose-built training centre in Hartlepool and offers a full range of Royal Yachting Association shore-based courses. People love attending the class taught courses. They say that the enthusiastic tutor is friendly and knowledgeable. The set timetable ensures that students get through the syllabus swiftly. It is very social, allowing you to meet other like-minded people and hear their stories. There are three navigation courses to choose from depending on your previous experience:
The RYA Essential Navigation course takes two days and is for the absolute beginner. It’s perfect for anyone interested in taking up boating or sailing yachts. It introduces you to chartwork, tides, weather, buoyage and safety.
Alternatively, there is also an online version for people who prefer to study at home. The RYA Day Skipper Theory course takes 5 days and is ideal for anyone who owns a boat or is thinking of hiring one. It covers tidal calculations, pilotage, collision regulations, chartwork, passage planning, weather forecasting and electronic navigation. Students love this really popular course because it gives them the knowledge and confidence to visit harbours other than their home port.
The RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Theory course takes 6 days and is an advanced level course which requires the student to have knowledge at Day Skipper level.
This course suits the true boating enthusiast and anyone pursuing a career at sea.
The main instructor is called Glenys Thompson.
She is interested in all types of watersports and has dabbled in most of them. She is a commercially
endorsed RYA Yachtmaster Skipper for both Power and Sail. She is also an RYA practical and shore-based instructor. She has been skippering
large boats for over 20 years. When she is not teaching sailing she likes to go yacht cruising to new
ports and foreign shores. She has sailed around the UK, across the North Sea, down to the Canary Islands and right down the Eastern Seaboard of USA and the all
of the islands of the Caribbean.
Course
RYA SRC Marine Radio
(1 Day)
RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship (2 days)
RYA Day Skipper Theory
(5 days)
RYA Yacht Master Theory
(6 days) mid week
Dates
12th November or 9th December
10th and 11th December
19th, 20th, 26th, 27th November and 3rd December
10th, 11th, 14th, 21st, 25th November and 1st December
Cost
£90 plus £60 for assessment and certificate
£150 includes a student pack, handy plotter and pair of dividers
£380 includes a student pack
£480 includes student pack, RYA Weather book, RYA Collision Regulations book.
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