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  • Our Courses

      All our courses are engaging, interactive and fun! Whether formal training or simply looking to brush up, we take online learning to the next level.

      • Sailing EssentialsFreeA free course great for anyone who spends time on the water.
      • Essential Navigation & SeamanshipRYA course for beginners. Learn charts, tides, pilotage, and core seamanship with simple practice tasks.
      • Day Skipper TheoryMost PopularRYA course for inshore skippers. Plan day passages using chartwork, tides, weather, and COLREGs.
      • Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster® TheoryComing SoonRYA course for advanced navigation and passage planning. Work with secondary ports, tidal streams, and offshore weather.
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        Flashcards designed to help remember the buoys in the IALA system. If you want to learn them in detail, our module ‘Getting in and out of harbour‘, covers the IALA system and different buoys used.
      • Interactive Rule Book (COLREGs / IRPCS)
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Wingsurfing

Wingfoiling First Flights

The RYA Wingfoiling First Flights course is designed for those new to wingfoiling. Participants learn how to handle the wing, balance on a foil board, and achieve their first flights. The course focuses on safety, controlling lift, and transitioning from displacement to foiling. By the end, participants will have experienced ...see more
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Wingfoiling First Flights

Course Overview

The RYA Wingfoiling First Flights course is designed for those new to wingfoiling. Participants learn how to handle the wing, balance on a foil board, and achieve their first flights. The course focuses on safety, controlling lift, and transitioning from displacement to foiling. By the end, participants will have experienced the thrill of foiling and gained the skills to continue progressing.
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Fundamentals

Course Content

Progress the pre-learnt skills of Wingsurfing, taking them to the next level and learning to wingfoil. This course will assist you in understanding and achieving your first flights in both directions and gaining the knowledge to increase flight time.

Minimum Age

None (contact individual centres for under 16s)

Minimum Duration

8-10 hours, delivered over a number of short sessions or full days.

Certificate Issuing Criteria

At the end of this course, you can set up, launch and recover wingfoiling equipment safely, making your first take-offs and short flights on the foil. Improving your knowledge and understanding of equipment available and opportunities for continuing, including the next wing-foiling progression of sustaining flight.

Course Format

Afloat

Places running this course

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Neilson – Baia Dei Mori Beachclub

Baia Sant'Anna SS, Baia Sant'Anna SS, Italy
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Plas Menai National Outdoor Centre

Caernarfon, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
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UKSA

Cowes, Isle Of Wight, United Kingdom
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Grafham Water Sailing Club

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Andrew Simpson Watersports Centre – Portsmouth

Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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Neilson Levante Beachclub

Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece
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Bray Lake Watersports

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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2XS

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Club Vassiliki

Lefkas, Lefkas, Greece
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Neilson – Cosmos Beachclub

Lefkas, Lefkas, Greece
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Andrew Simpson Centre – Reading

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Edge Watersports Limited

Exmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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Grafham Water Centre

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Oulton Broad Watersports Centre

RYA , Paddle U.K. and AALA affiliated water sports centre offering a range of water sports and training opportunities for all ages regardless of experience or ability. Activities include sailing, kayaking, canoeing, winging, wind surfing, power boating and first aid. We are open for groups (including schools and other organisations) ... read more
Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Mon
09:00 - 17:00
Tue
09:00 - 17:00
Wed
09:00 - 17:00
Thu
09:00 - 17:00
Fri
09:00 - 17:00
Sat
Closed
Sun
Closed
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Osprey RYA Training Centre

Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom
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Loch Insh Watersports

Inverness-Shire, Inverness-Shire, United Kingdom
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Windswept CIC

Haverfordwest, Dyfed, United Kingdom
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Carsington Sailing Club

Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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Rye Watersports

Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Calshot Activities Centre

Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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