RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course (ENAS)
Prometheus Sailing offers the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship (ENAS) as an online course, making it easy for you to learn at your own pace while attending to your other commitments. This course is a great introduction to navigation and seamanship knowledge.
Why Take the Essential Navigation & Seamanship Online Course?
The RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship online course will give you the knowledge needed when you’re afloat, from navigation and safety awareness to seamanship and passage planning.
Students gain knowledge of electronic navigation, pilotage rules and tidal awareness to ensure an exciting and safe journey out at sea.
Master your navigation skills from the comfort of your home. Enrol in our RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship course online today.
RYA Essential Navigation Course Highlights
This informative course will ease you into navigation and tidal awareness through well-paced and structured lessons. It provides engaging, interactive exercises designed to prepare you for practical on-the-water training and future RYA courses.
During your training, you will:
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Complete your ENAS training entirely online.
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Learn at your own pace with 6-8 hours of self-paced training.
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Get a deep dive into safety procedures, weather forecasts and electronic navigation.
What's Included
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Personal login and access to the RYA Interactive Essential Navigation Course
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Quality plotter and dividers so you can do your chartwork
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RYA training charts and online almanac
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RYA Essential Navigation Northern Hemisphere Exercise book
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RYA Essential Navigation handbook
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Access to RYA Chart Plotter Software
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Free postage to the UK (postage to overseas £20.00)
Cost
£115 per person. This course includes all the materials needed to complete your training.
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Course Syllabus
The ENAS course is an introduction to navigation, teaching skippers safety awareness and passage planning to prepare for real-world sailing.
1. Content charts, publications and terms – Basic terms, chart overview, introduction to chart datum and depths
2. Buoyage – Lateral buoys, cardinal buoys, and where to find information
3. Navigation – Plotting a position, measuring distance and bearing, position fix, heading
4. Safety – personal and boat safety equipment, safety procedure and briefing, communications, engine checks, rescue procedures
5. Anchoring – Where to anchor, how to anchor
6. Tides – tidal streams, tidal heights
7. Visual and electronic navigation – GOS terms, GPS use, using waypoints
8. Rules of the road – Risk of collision, who gives way
9. Weather forecasts – sources of forecast, terms used in forecast
10. Pilotage – Harbour information, transits, pilotage plan
11. Passage planning – SOLAS V requirements, pre-planning, chart choice
Prometheus Sailing: Navigating with Confidence
Prometheus Sailing is an RYA-accredited sailing school in the UK. Based in the heart of the Solent, we provide yachting courses to sailors of all skill levels. Our team of experienced RYA instructors guides students through various courses aboard our Jeanneau fleet.
For absolute beginners, our RYA Start Yachting Course and RYA Competent Crew Course offer a good introduction. Intermediate students benefit from our RYA Day Skipper Theory and Practical Course. Advanced students will find the RYA Sailing Refresher Course an excellent way to practice and refresh their technique.
Your information
To enable access to your online course, we need to share some of your personal data with the RYA via your user profile in www.ryainteractive.org. This secure learning management website, hosted by Learning Pool, ensures your information is only used for course delivery and certification.
Your name, address and date of birth will be entered on www.ryainteractive.org and stored for 12 months. This is solely to manage your course access and to provide instructional support. Upon completion, your certification record will be added to the RYA’s central database for future verification purposes.
After 12 months from your date of enrolment, your user account will be removed in accordance with the RYA’s data protection policy. This information allows the RYA to record your certification, to update any records they may already hold about you or your qualifications and to verify your certificate if required.
Full details of how the RYA will deal with your personal information will be displayed when you first access www.ryainteractive.org.
Learn to navigate the sea with confidence with the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course. Explore this and various other opportunities available online at Prometheus Sailing School.
