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

Facilitator: Captain Lori Rainaldi

Logistics:
Wednesday, April 23
7:00-10:00pm at the Marine Training Center
-or-
Saturday, May 10
9:00am-12:00pm at the Marine Training Center

Tuition: $95.00

Certification: Upon course completion you will receive a Landfall Navigation Marine Training Center certificate of completion in the 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 Day 1 of the course.