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Featured Courses & Seminars

  • Boat Handling $60.00 – $135.00
  • Tampa Bay Chart Marine Navigation $75.00 – $150.00
  • handheld compass Advanced Marine Navigation $60.00 – $140.00
  • chartplotting tools Offshore Navigation $95.00 – $195.00
  • Celestial Navigation $170.00 – $260.00
  • Weather $60.00 – $135.00

Advanced Marine Navigation

$60.00 – $140.00

Thursdays, September 2, 2021 – November 4, 2021

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Clear
SKU: L-16679 Category: Advanced Grade
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Description

Do you want to navigate unfamiliar waters in limited visibility or take an extended cruise with confidence? Learn to use radar, chart plotters, AIS, and other electronic tools to supplement basic GPS navigation. Obtain a thorough understanding of piloting techniques in a variety of coastal tide, current, and wind conditions.

What’s included?

  • Advanced positioning techniques, such as advancing a line of position to obtain a running fix
  • Use of a variety of electronic tools: radar, depth sounders, autopilots, chart plotters, laptop computer software, and more
  • Hazard avoidance techniques using electronics (e.g. avoidance waypoints or safety zones in GPS)
  • Collision avoidance using radar, GPS, and AIS
  • Working with the tide and current data to determine clearances, depth of water, and effects of current
  • Piloting in various wind and current conditions
  • The “Seaman’s Eye” – simple skills for checking that one is on course

Ten classes of two hours each normally are scheduled for the presentation of this course. In addition, the students have seven days to complete an open book exam.

 

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Membership

Member, Non-member

Quantity

One person, Two people (sharing materials)

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  • chartplotting tools

    Offshore Navigation

    $95.00 – $195.00
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