Navathome Australia Reviews 

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TrustScore 5 out of 5

4.8

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Hi Alan and the team at NAVatHOME Australia Thanks for a fantastic and very professional LROCP offshore radio course. Your LROCP offshore radio course should be mandatory for all crew whom sai... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Alan and the Navathome team have been excellent in providing a very genuine and thorough approach to helping me learn rather than just go through a process. Feedback has been clearly thoughtful and he... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Interested in learning more about navigation, with the view to apply what i have learnt while sailing. The course material was set out in a logical fashion and the quiz's help embed the knowledge. Wou... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The course was well written, easy to read and understand. The simulated radio exchanges and radio interface were very helpful. It made doing the test quite straightforward. Alan really knows his stu... See more

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RYA theory courses online, Day Skipper, Coastal Yachtmaster, Yachtmaster and Ocean Yachtmaster


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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

VHF Online licence Training

The online self paced course is well layed out and easy to follow with detailed descriptions to all elements allowing sufficient information to easily pass the assessments at the end of the course to attain your VHF Licence (SRROCP).

30 August 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Have done two courses …

Have done a couple of courses through nav at home and both were easy to follow, intuitive and informative. I learned a lot which helped me achieve the Day skippers practical and the VHF radio qualifications.

14 August 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Really good course

Really good course, well presented. Did the online version mainly for convenience, but in hindsight would have considered the classroom as this is a "doing" skill. The online tools were very good though.
Would recommend for anyone boating - great all round skills to have.

14 August 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The course was well laid out and…

The course was well laid out and extensive. I did not realise the huge volume of the course. It did take a serious time commitment after work and during the weekends to complete the course while still working a full time job. The material, examples, quizzes and exercises were helpful in preparing for the final assessment. Navathome was very responsive to any queries I had during the course.

9 July 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The RYA Yachtmasters fast track course…

The RYA Yachtmasters fast track course run by Navathome far exceeded my expectations.
The course is well set out and the support if needed is excellent, with a quick response to any queries.
I would highly recommend this course to anyone considering going for their Yachtmasters Coastal/Offshore certificate

29 June 2024
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great support with detailed course materials …

Support was most helpful in conjunction with the detailed course material provided. Some compatibility issues with Macs did occur but overall the online training delivered an interesting and useful learning experience. Many thanks for Alan in supporting us through the course.

17 June 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

VHF Radio Course

I just completed my VHF radio course with flying colours mainly due to the excellent training material provided by NAV at Home . I was not expecting such an interactive training course. It made learning the course material fun.

Great job Alan and Team.

13 June 2024
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Worthwhile content…

The content in this course and the associated downloads are both clear and useful.

The self assessment quizzes however are weak and could be improved through a better Learning Management System (LMS). The questions did not change on a resit, a question that required the re-ordering of a list did not work on mobile devices and overall there is significant room for improvement in the assessment part of the course. Assessment is important as it provides the feedback loop for the person undertaking the course. It is also the difference between simply reading a book and watching a few videos and undertaking a course.

As a showcase for NAVatHOME courses, the clunkiness of LMS and the limitations of the assessment sections would not encourage me to do further study.

This being said, overall this course has significantly improved my scant knowledge of this subject matter, so was worth doing.

1 June 2024
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Reply from Navathome Australia

Hi Justine,

We are sorry to hear of your experience, and thankyou for your feedback. The diesel engine course that you enroled in is one of our less expensive courses and has not been the primary focus of our recent updates. We have been focussing on the RYA accredited courses which in turn will allow us to transfer these updates to the diesel course. As you can appreciate, creating new animated videos and interactive elements takes time, but it is in progress.

We can certainly look at improving the questions as that is also part of our current update plans. Just a note, we do not use a generic LMS platform as they do not support the extremely high levels of interactivity that we have introduced in the VHF and RYA accredited courses.

I am surprised that the re-ordering list did not work as this has never been mentioned previously, and we have tested it on multiple mobile devices. If you could let us know which device you were using, and what browser you were accessing the page with, we can look at it more closely.

The new version of the diesel course will include more interactive elements, and be expanded to cover more electrical content as that has been requested a few times.

The most important part is to be able to provide the key information to our students first, as this ultimately will make them safer on the water. And we are glad to hear that we improved your knowledge of the system, which is really the ultimate goal of the course.

Navathome Australia

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A great start to getting understanding Navigation

I have done a lot of sailing but very little navigation ...Navathome addressed the areas of navigation I wanted to know about & also the ones I needed to know about ...Done in language that I was able to understand ...Also the advice given when picking the course was very appropriate

27 May 2024
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A more confident Sailer

I thought this course was informative, well set out and fun to do. Each subject was in its own block so you could complete each separate one as you had time.

I have a sailing holiday in French Polynesia next month and it is 6 years since my last sail. This course has made me a lot more confident about our upcoming adventure

15 May 2024

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