In-Depth Coastal Navigation
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
• Calculating distance, speed and time
• Determining position using 3 bearing fix
• Establishing a running fix  
• Current diagrams and how to use them
• Current navigation problems and solutions
• How to read tables of tides and currents

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. If you need the above items shipped to you, please submit your order with your registration to allow for sufficient shipping time

Tuition: $150