Course bundle

All four courses

COLREGs, buoyage, lights and shapes, chartwork and marine meteorology, in one payment.

  • Self-paced online
  • Four courses
  • Certificate of completion
  • Unlimited free tutor support
  • One payment

One payment enrols you on the four courses on sale now: Learn the COLREGs, Buoyage, Lights and Shapes, Chartwork and Marine Meteorology. Learn the COLREGs opens in the lesson player. The other three keep a full syllabus here, and each player is added when its course folder arrives.

The bundle price is lower than buying those four courses on their own. The figure for buying them separately is shown beside the price. Courses still in preparation, including radar plotting, tides and tidal streams, and passage planning, are not included. Adding a course later does not add it to this bundle.

After payment, each course appears on your dashboard. If you already have one or more of them, you still pay the bundle price, and only the courses you do not yet have are added.

What you will learn

  • Work through the collision regulations from Rule 1 to the annexes
  • Read IALA buoyage and identify vessels by lights and day shapes
  • Plot a coastal passage, including tides and tidal streams
  • Turn a marine forecast into a go or no-go decision

Who this course is for

Someone building a theory library

Seafarers, yacht crew and aspiring officers who want the rules, the marks, the lights, the chart and the weather in one purchase.

A mariner who already owns one course

You can still buy the bundle. The price stays the same, and the courses you already have are not added twice.

Course format

One payment covers the four courses. Each course is self-paced and studied in a browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. There is nothing to install. When you finish a course, Sea Skills Online issues a certificate of completion for that course. The certificate records your study. It is not an STCW, MCA or RYA certificate.

Watchkeepers, yacht crew and aspiring officers. Price £140 (£166 if you buy the courses separately). Checkout creates your account, or signs you in, takes payment through Stripe, and adds the course to your dashboard.

Tutor support

Unlimited free tutor support is included. If a lesson does not make sense, email hello@seaskillsonline.com. There is no extra charge, and there is no limit on how often you write.

Course contents

  1. Learn the COLREGs

    Course 1

    Collision regulations from Rule 1 to Rule 41 and the four annexes. Narrated lessons, quizzes at an 80% pass mark, and a final assessment. The player is ready.

  2. Buoyage, lights and shapes

    Course 2

    IALA Region A and Region B, cardinal and special marks, and navigation lights and day shapes from Rules 20 to 31.

  3. Chartwork

    Course 3

    Coastal chartwork: position, course, variation and deviation, tides, tidal streams and clearing lines.

  4. Marine meteorology

    Course 4

    Pressure, wind, fronts, fog, waves and the forecasts a mariner uses to decide whether to sail.

The courses in this bundle are listed in the bundle field of this file. Publishing a new catalog file does not add that course to the bundle.

Courses in this bundle

Common questions

Which courses are in the bundle?

Learn the COLREGs, Buoyage, Lights and Shapes, Chartwork and Marine Meteorology. That is the whole bundle. Radar plotting, tides and tidal streams, and passage planning are in preparation and are not included.

Do I pay less if I already own a course?

No. The bundle stays at the published price. Payment adds only the courses from this list that are not yet on your account.

Does a new course get added to the bundle later?

No. The four courses are fixed. A course published later is sold on its own unless this page is changed to name it.