FREEBuoyage
Read any mark from its shape, colour and topmark. Know which side to pass, by day and by night.
3 parts
Start buoyage THE RYA YACHTMASTER OFFSHORE THEORY
Every subject, worked through.
Chartwork builds to a passage plan. The subjects on watch sit alongside it.
ON WATCH
The subjects you need on watch.
FREE
FREELights and shapes
Make sense of the vessel ahead: her lights, her day shapes, and what you can tell from where you are.
4 parts
Start lights & shapes 
FREEThe rules of the road
All the steering and sailing rules, one at a time. Read the situation and make the call yourself.
20 lessons
Start the rules 
FREE WITH ACCOUNTThe diesel engine
A working 3-D engine you can turn, cut in half and run. Its systems, the everyday jobs and the signs of trouble.
5 parts
Open the engine 
Radar
What you see and how to tune it, what each echo is, fixing your position and avoiding collision with radar.
4 parts
Open the module 
Safety
The safety equipment on board, what it does and how to brief the crew: personal safety, calling for help, cold water and fire, abandoning ship.
4 parts
Open the module 
01 — 07 · CHARTWORK
From your first fix
to a full passage plan.
01
The chart
Read the chart: the symbols, the seabed and depths, and the publications that go with it.
3 parts
Open the module 
02
Direction, distance and time
True and magnetic, variation and deviation, and speed, distance and time on the chart.
4 parts
Open the module 
03
Fixing your position
Position lines, crossing bearings and the cocked hat, dead reckoning and the running fix.
3 parts
Open the module 
04
Tides
Tidal definitions, standard port heights, clearance under the keel and tidal streams.
4 parts
Open the module 
05
Course to steer
What the stream and the wind do to you, and the course to steer to get where you want to go.
3 parts
Open the module 
06
The almanac
The move to the real Channel: the almanac, secondary ports and the stream atlas.
2 parts
Open the module 
07
Passage planning
A complete passage plan across the Channel, with help at every step, then on your own.
9 parts
Open the module Final mock exam
A full mock of the theory exam: random questions from every subject of the course, then a complete passage plan. Pass or fail at the end, with what to work on next.
Every subject
Sit the mock exam Pilotage and GPS & electronics are in production and will be added to the course at no extra cost.