Capstan Sailing School

Sailing Schools Challenge

Capstan Sailing is the organiser of the annual Sailing Schools Challenge, in the Solent and the IoW. See you there in 2012!

Places, Races and Faces!

Online courses

Capstan Sailing School is pleased to offer an online course, Essential Navigation and Safety, accredited by the RYA.

  • This course is ideal for budding skippers and crew
  • This course provides perfect preparation for our Competent Crew and Day Skipper practical courses.
  • Materials include hundreds of illustrations, videos, animations and paper materials (charts, navigation instruments and books) – everything you need to start the exciting journey to becoming a skipper!
  • RYA certificate on successfull completion of the course

Interactive online modules:

  • Buoyage System
  • Pilotage Techniques
  • Weather Forecasts and their sources
  • Basic Passage Planning
  • Safety
  • Basic Rules of the Road
  • Tides and currents
  • Introduction to GPS and Electronic Charts

Course pack

  • Course notes (Study materials, Essential Navigation and Safety booklet)
  • Plotter
  • Set of dividers
  • Exercises
  • CD with chart plotter and charts.
  • Paper practice charts
  • Northern Hemisphere Training Almanac.

During the course:

  • We register you on the RYA Interactive website, with full access to the course materials – videos, animations, illustrations, exercises and tests
  • RYA accredited professional instructor, to guide you through the course and provide any assistance you may require, via email or skype.

Course price:

  • £155 (including ‘recorded delivery’ postage)

How to join: