One class: 7 hours
Can you navigate home successfully when your chartplotter and GPS fail at the most inopportune moment? Learn essential, paper and pencil navigation techniques plus electronic navigation and how to integrate both for ease, safe and successful near-coastal passage making.
Course Overview
Coastal Navigation is designed to acquaint you with all the tools, publications and skills required for successful coastal navigation, both with and without electronic aids. It consists of classroom work focusing on the theory, practice, and procedures of navigation and piloting. Learn to take advantage of tides and currents to speed you to your destination. You will be challenged with a major plotting exercise to demonstrate and teach the concepts.
Topics
- Compass: variation, deviation, compass error
- Plotting and course determination
- Dead reckoning
- Calculating distance, speed and time
- Determining position using 3 bearing fix
- Establishing a running fix
- Plotting, using current tide charts and tables
- Current diagrams and how to use them
- Current navigation problems and solutions
- How to read tables of tides and currents
Facilitator: Captain Lori Rainaldi
Logistics:
Tuition: $150.00
Certification: Upon course completion you will receive a Landfall Navigation Marine Training Center certificate of completion in In-Depth Coastal Navigation.
Notes: In addition to the provided materials you must have or acquire the following tools and items:
- Parallel Rule (12” or 15”)
- Dividers (one or two-handed version – 7” recommended)
- Pencils (mechanical w/0.5 or 0.7 mm leads are recommended)
- Erasers (soft eraser)
- Calculator (battery or solar)
All of these items are available for purchase at Landfall Navigation. Please call in advance of the course to purchase for shipping to you or to have us set aside the equipment the equipment for you to pick up on the day of the course.
