Coastal Navigation Course

The navigation course is a combination of a printed text/workbook for home study, sample and real time chart work, online animated demonstrations and testing, email instructor assistance, and a private Navigation Bulletin Board where students can communicate with other students and instructors by posting messages and reading or replying to messages from others.

Topics covered in the course include:

Introduction to Navigation Understanding Latitude & Longitude
Reading the Nautical Chart
Finding Latitude, Longitude & Distance
Finding Direction Distance, Speed & Time Calculations
Getting to Know Your Magnetic Compass
Dead Reckoning Two & Three Bearing Fixes
Running Fixes Finding Set & Drift
Estimated Position Finding Course to Steer
Finding Relative Bearings Tide and Current Calculations
Publications: Coast Pilot, Light List, Local Notice to Mariners
Publication Excerpts Final Exam

The course includes all the above listed chapters, excerpts from Tide and Current Tables, the Coast Pilot, Light List and Local Notice to Mariners. This material is bound in a Nautical Know How Coastal Navigation Course loose-leaf binder. Sample and full size training charts will accompany each course. There is additional online information, tips, tricks and tools, a navigation discussion board, online multiple choice quizzes and online answers to each chapter's charting exercises.

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