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Description

The main topics of this 12-week course are: review and expansion of the Boating course subjects, relative bearings, running fixes, effects of currents and leeway, coastal navigation.

Cost

$80.00. It includes student notes, homework folder, homework answers and training chart.

Availability

This course is advertised in September.

Table of Contents

  1. Dead Reckoning and the Log
  2. Marlinespike Seamanship
  3. The Magnetic Compass
  4. Fixed Aids to Navigation
  5. Floating Aids to Navigation
  6. Bearings and Fixes
  7. Relative Bearings
  8. Distance of an Object by Two Relative Bearing
  9. Weather
  10. Wind, Waves and Current
  11. Seamanship Skills for Adverse Weather
  12. Anchors and Anchoring
  13. Tides
  14. Tidal Currents
  15. Navigating in a Current
  16. Buoyancy and Stability
  17. Hull Construction and Shape
  18. Hull Performance
  19. Propellers and Propeller Action
  20. Rudders and Steering Mechanisms
  21. Emergencies
  22. Preparedness and Enjoyment
  23. Introduction to Electronic Navigation
  24. Manners and Customs