The next course is one-day-a-week on Wednesday evenings beginning September 2012

The price is £95 including all course materials.

Equally valuable to those fascinated by the prospect of navigating by the planets and stars or simply keen to arm themselves with a reliable alternative to electronic navigation, this course unravels the mysteries of the sextant and considers the wide range of practical skills essential to ocean passage making. It consists of astro navigation, meteorology, passage planning and communications.

Anyone contemplating an offshore passage anytime soon is reminded of the very real possibility of disruption to the GPS system from the 2012-13 increase in sunspot activity. This course could prove very useful!