Radar Course
Small boat radar
A one-day course giving you an understanding of radar as an aid to navigation and collision avoidance.
Did you know that If you have radar aboard your boat then you have a duty to use it for navigation and collision avoidance under IRPCS rule 19? Why not come and find out what you can do with this under utilised and expensive item on your boat.
Cruising boats increasingly have radar on board. The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea state that if you have a radar, you must know how to use it.
Radar is probably the most versatile of all electronic navigation aids, but the best results are only obtained when you know how to use all the functions correctly. It is not an all seeing eye, and can easily mislead those who do not understand its controls, allow for its limitations, or interpret its picture.
Course topics include:
- how the radar set works
- how its adjustments and features affect the way it works
- target definition
- radar reflectors
- types of radar display
- radar plotting
- the use of radar in navigation and collision avoidance
Courses are run at our purpose built classroom a few hundred yards from the pretty harbour in the centre of the bustling fishing port of Brixham, Torbay, Devon.
We have a maximum Student to Instructor ratio of 6:1 ensuring high interaction between Student and Instructor. All courses include refreshments and course notes.
After your course, why not have our instructor come to your boat and show you how your radar works on the water for half a day. The cost of this will be £25 per hour plus vat. This can be booked at the time you book your course.
Please contact us for dates or to arrange a date to suit yourselves, local accommodation can be arranged on request.
