RYA - Royal Yachting Association

This personal logbook is perfect for all boaters who voyage on a number of boats. Within it, there is space to record the distance of journeys, the maximum wind strength and the capacity in which the voyage was sailed.Also included are 'season summaries' to allow at-a-glance mileage recording and vessel names. Ideal for the progressing boater, and unique to the RYA, this logbook includes some information an...

RYA Competent Crew Skills is the official companion for the RYA’s popular Competent Crew Course. Over 12,000 people, with no sailing experience, successfully complete the course every year.

The RYA’s renowned practical training is complemented by a structured shorebased learning process on the theory of navigation, safety, seamanship and by specialist one-day courses on skills such as first aid and sea survival.

Updated RYA Training Almanac, containing practice navigation tables. Buy separately or in a pack with training charts 3 and 4. Please note that this product is for training purposes only, and is not to be used for navigation.

If you are doing an RYA course or are simply seeking to gain a greater understanding of the weather, this edition of the RYA Weather Handbook (which covers the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) is full of practical and useful information, on aspects such as theory, weather charts, clouds, predicting the wind, and the technology used in sourcing meteorological information.

This handy book for the leisure user is a quick-reference guide to radio procedures (including Urgency, Safety, and Distress messaging); installing and maintaining a VHF radio; the licensing requirements, and GMDSS including Navtex.

The RYA Yachtmaster qualification is the pinnacle of yacht training. Anyone seeking to gain an RYA Yachtmaster Certificate of Competence requires a broad theoretical knowledge base and a high level of practical skill.

RYA Yacht Sailing Techniques is the comprehensive and essential text to ensure all yacht sailors enjoy their time cruising. It describes and illustrates, in full colour, the skills that are required to manage a yacht under sail or power in favourable conditions.

This handbook is the official companion to the RYA Powerboat Advanced course but it is also equally relevant to those who are simply keen to develop and consolidate their knowledge to help improve their theoretical and practical skills.

This brand new title is designed to compliment both the RYA Sea Survival Course and the ISAF Offshore Course. This book is ideal and essential for anyone taking to the seas, whether on a motor or sailing vessel, giving indepth advice and information on safety at sea. RYA Sea Survival Handbook will teach you all you need to know about preparing to go to sea, emergency procedures, safety equipment, life-savin...

To be safe at sea you must know the rules. This book explains the rules and regulations with footnotes to help you interpret them correctly.

RYA Introduction To Navigation (G77) is the latest in the RYA’s popular Navigation series. The book guides the reader through the basic steps of navigation so that they can learn to navigate successfully. It is therefore an absolute must for everybody, whether studying for the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship, or merely looking to refresh their knowledge.

Becoming a Day Skipper is exciting and opens up many opportunities. This new book provides all the information you need to help you work towards your RYA Day Skipper Sail Certificate and to enjoy cruising in a safe manner.

The Navigation Handbook from the Royal Yachting Association is the recommended text for anyone doing the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased course and a core text for the RYA Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course sail or power. It is also ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about navigation.

RYA Day Skipper Practical Course Notes is designed to accompany the RYA Day Skipper Practical Course held at sailing centres around the world. It also provides a wealth of valuable information to all those going to sea.

Ask any group of students attending an SRC course why they want to learn to use a marine VHF radio, and the overwhelming majority are likely to reply ’safety’. Probe a little deeper, and most of them will probably say that they want it mainly to be able to call for help.

This new edition of the best selling RYA Navigation Exercises is the official and recommended book for RYA Day Skipper, Yachtmaster and the Basic 2-Day Navigation and Safety Course and contains everything you will need to help answer the questions in this book. It is the only book that uses the new RYA Training Charts used for all RYA Training Courses and it comes with 2 Training Charts: RYA training chart ...

RYA Passage Planning will provide you with the essential facts and methods that you need for your own journeys. Beginning with a systematic, step-by-step procedure on how to start your passage planning and what factors you should be considering, the book takes you ny way of scenarios through how you might plan a variety of voyages, and provides useful checklists and forms to help with the process.