Recreational : Navigation Master
A stand alone course designed to enable the offshore mariner to safely navigate extended passages using traditional methods. It includes practical navigation exercises and sample chartwork calculations.
The course covers:
- Chart work instruments
- The magnetic compass, variation and deviation
- The Breton plotter
- NOAA charts
- Admiralty charts
- Small craft charts
- Projection
- Scales
- Horizontal datum
- Units of measurement
- Datum of soundings
- Charted heights
- Chart numbers
- Source diagram
- Editions and dates
- Large scale charts
- Notes, warnings, cautions
- Detailed chart information
- Nautical chart symbols and abbreviations
- Angles and degrees
- Latitude and Longitude
- Defining a position
- Chart work convections
- Distance, speed, time and direction
- Position by bearing and distance
- Magnetic north
- Compass error
- Causes of deviation
- Applying variation and deviation
- The deviation card
- Compass error
- The hand bearing compass
- Position lines and position fixes
- Bearings at sea
- Range/transit's
- Sectored lights
- Clearing lines
- Running fixes
- Dead reckoning and estimated positions
- The navigation log book