Basic Coastal Navigation

One class: 3 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. 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 Practical use of navigational publication Facilitator: Captain Lori Rainaldi Logistics: 7:00-10:00pm at th...