RYA Radar+  course gives you an understanding of radar as an aid to navigation and collision avoidance.

This 2 day course give you the opportunity to convert what you have plotted on paper and ‘see’ it on our Radar / Navigation simulator. You have plotted on paper now convert it to electronic collision avoidance and using Radar as an aid to navigation.

Find out how to use radar to help navigation not just using it to see what’s there. Radar can help in so many way that you may not know.

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.

Marine Radar is an electronic device which measures the bearing and distance of solid objects and presents this information on a screen, you can use it to identify land, navigational marks and other vessels. Radar is short bursts of radio energy which are bounced back from the objects they find.

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 it’s limitations, or interpret its picture.  On day 2 you can see what you thought was there.

Courses held at the Mendez Marine Classroom are limited to 6 students.  There is access to Raymarine and Garmin radar equipment plus our Radar and Navigation simulator.

The Radar simulator gives you the opportunity to run various scenarios from various locations on a range of boats – and if you sink, go aground or hit something – It doesn’t matter.