Five sessions: 4 hours each
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
ASA 105 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. In addition to classroom work focusing on the theory, practice and procedures of navigation and piloting, this course strongly emphasizes practical skills and includes approximately 10-15 hours of practice outside of class.
For those interested in the American Sailing Association certifications, this navigation course is ground school and a prerequisite for ASA advanced courses: Advanced Coastal Cruising (106), and Offshore Passagemaking (108). Class size is limited to 12 students.
Topics
- Piloting
- Plotting conventions
- Deduced reckoning
- Calculating an estimated position
- Calculating set and drift
- Interpreting tide and current charts
- Establishing a running fix
- Taking bearings and ranges
- RADAR, GPS and other electronic aids to navigation
- Integrating “paper and pencil” and electronics in practical navigation
- Practical use of navigational publication
Tuition: $300.00, plus $50 for course materials and ASA certification fees.
Recommended: Join American Sailing Association
Certification: Upon course completion and passing of the ASA exam you will receive the ASA Navigation (105) certification.
Notes: In addition to the materials provided (covered by the $50.00 material fee) you must have or purchase the following tools and items:
- Chart # 1 – "Nautical Chart Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms"
- Triangles, Parallel Rules (15" preferred) or Course Plotter (Portland Plotters are recommended)
- Dividers (one or two-handed version, 7” is recommended)
- Pencils (mechanical w/0.5 or 0.7 mm leads are recommended)
- Erasers (Pentel Clic, or similar soft eraser)
- Calculator (capable of Base 6 calculations for time and angles)
All of these items are available for purchase at Landfall. If you need the above items shipped to you, please submit your order with your registration to allow for sufficient shipping time
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