- 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.
Teaching methods
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.