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VHF Radio Course


The RYA SRC / VHF course is  for anyone who owns or will be operating a fixed or hand-held marine VHF radio. The Short Range Certificate is the minimum qualification required by law to operate a VHF radio fitted with DSC (Digital Selective Calling).


Also available as an online course, please see below.

RYA First Aid Course

The one-day course covers all the standard first aid subjects, however from a boating perspective. This course is aimed at anyone who goes afloat on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross channel passages.

Professional Practices Responsibilities - Online Course

Each year approximately 4,500 people apply to the RYA for a commercial endorsement in order to use their RYA qualifications professionally as skipper or crew. You could be doing anything from delivering a new 35’ yacht or driving a workboat with lifting and towing gear, to running a superyacht in the Med. Whatever your job is on board, in the commercial world you are a professional seafarer. As such, you are no different from the captain of a cruise liner – you have a duty of care to crew, passengers, and other water users, and you will be held to account if things go wrong.


Sitting at your kitchen table or on the train to work

A course for anyone who owns a fixed or hand-held marine VHF radio. The Short Range Certificate is the minimum qualification required by law to operate a VHF radio fitted with Digital Selective Calling

(DSC) on any British vessel voluntarily fitted with a radio.


The Online course is perfect as it allows you to complete the course at your own pace whether that be at home or on the train to work.

Wishing to navigate European Inland waterways?

Code Européen des Voies de Navigation Intérieure (CEVNI) is the code governing navigation on the interconnected European inland waterways.

Signs, rules and procedures for navigating many of the European inland waterways are all included within the CEVNI and in the same way as pleasure craft on coastal waters are expected to abide by the COLREGS, pleasure craft on many of the inland waterways of Europe, which in places are heavily utilised by commercial traffic, are expected to know the CEVNI as this is the basis of many of the various countries' own regulations. 

Get up and close with the River Thames

These trips are ideal for anyone who are studying for their PLA/ MCA Local Knowledge Endorsements exam or those that wish to navigate commerically between Woolwich and Putney safely. 


Attending will give you the time to get up and close with the river Thames exploring the different reaches, shoals, piers and bridges. These trips can be used for self study trip with a fully qualified LKE skipper.

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