Navigation only course

[Chris_Stannard]

SWMBO, after 15 years of sailing with me, has finally decided that she needs to know how to navigate. She is more than competent with boat handling, steering, reefing, safety, first aid etc, and can tell the buoys etc without difficulty. She just has never learned to do the chart bit and tides and currents. I know, from previous experience that I can not teach her myself, it always ends up in a row, when I get accused of being patronising, teaching granny to suck eggs, being totally unable to say what I mean or explain mysself, or of losing my temper. I have even been accused of doing all of these at the same time.

So my question is does anyone know of a course which is only about the chartwork and passage planning, correspondence or using a computer based system.

Many thanks for your help



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[LadyInBed]

You could try <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.sailingissues.com/index.html>http://www.sailingissues.com/index.html</A>

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[BrendanS]

Just about any of the RYA schools will put on custom courses to suit requirements - especially at this time of year when bookings for on-water training are down.

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[Jeremy_W]

It's not a course but I found Gerry Smith's "Coastal Navigation" (Adlard Coles) which includes a practice chart absolutely fantastic. I'd sailed for about five years but done no navigation. It's clear simple and establishes the basic principles. I read the book and went straight to Day Skipper Practical then intensive YM Theory, passing both.

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[zefender]

I'd recommend an evening class YM theory, most of which is navigation and weather anyway. If she knows the other stuff, she can glow with pride at being the class swot, getting all the right answers, enabling her to concentrate on chartwork skils. There are also online theory courses which maybe someone can suggest.

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[Fill]

try centaursailing.com he's RYA accredited and has a correspondence course with excellent notes on CD (for all the courses Day, Yachtmaster, ocean, radar etc).

Worth an ask.

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[Cornishman]

Buy her these two books for Christmas:

1. The RYA Navigation Handbook by Tim Bartlett (£12.99)
2. The RYA Book of Navigation Exercises by Chris Slade and Sara Hopkinson (£10.99) complete with 2 training charts

Make sure you give them to HER!!

If you need any further advice pm me

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[ruthhobson]

We have also used the Gerry Smith book. HWMBO also got his day skipper practical without doing the theory. It is a course which slowly introduces new topics and tests you at each stage, making sure you have the basics understood before moving on.

We also bought the RYA books - which are OK, but I can recommend the Gerry Smith book 100% as I know it works (also alot cheaper than a course allowing you spare pennies to get her a very nice Christmas present!)

Ruth

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