Irish National Sailing School
Coastal Navigation for Small Boats – C4
Start Date: September 17, 2024
The Coastal Navigation for Small Boats course is a short theory course that is ideal for powerboaters. The course is certified by Irish Sailing (national governing body for sailing and powerboating in Ireland) and will teach you all the fundamental navigational skills needed to safely operate a powerboat on longer trips away from base.
This course satisfies the navigation and theory pre-requisits for the Irish Sailing Intermediate Powerboat Certificate and Irish Sailing Advanced Powerboat Certificate.
Overview
Course Title :
Coastal Navigation for Small Boats
What you’ll be able to do
- Interpret Weather forecasts, source information and plan accordingly
- Chartwork; identify distances, plot positions, determine course to steer and more
- Understand how to utilise electronic aids to navigation; GPS, Electronic Chart Plotter and more
- Calculate tidal heights
- Identify Buoyage at both day and night
- Prepare detailed passage plans, using charts, interpreting the effect of tide and weather
- Understand and comply with IRPCS
The course fees are €190, including all course materials.
Our cancellation policy for this course can be viewed here.
This course runs over 4 evenings, 6:00-9:30pm.
The meeting point is our Main Clubhouse, the first building on the West Pier in Dun Laoghaire.
What to bring
Note book and Pen
All course materials are provided
Please dress warmly - its hard to heat this old building!
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Great experience - Came here with my mom for a stand up paddle board rental, the staff went above and beyond to be super friendly and the experience was great and good value! 
lizzyvallely
28/07/2020
