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Featured Courses & Seminars

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

Marine Navigation

$75.00 – $150.00

This course focuses on navigation as it is done on recreational boats today and embraces GPS as a primary navigation tool while covering enough of traditional techniques so the student will be able to find his/her way even if their GPS fails.

Thursdays, January 28, 2021 – April 1, 2021

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Clear
SKU: L-16675 Category: Advanced Grade
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Description

Learn the essentials of safe coastal and inland navigation using basic GPS in conjunction with charts and other marine data. The Marine Navigation course teaches you how to use the GPS along with traditional dead reckoning techniques for planning and laying out safe routes, as well as ensuring that you are on-course while underway.

What’s included?

  • Charts and their interpretation
  • Landmarks and navigation aids (buoys, daymarks, lights, etc)
  • Plotting courses and determining direction and distance
  • The mariner’s compass and converting between True and Magnetic
  • Use of GPS – basic GPS displays and information they provide, setting up waypoints and routes, staying on a GPS course
  • Pre-planning courses and entering them into the GPS
  • Monitoring progress and determining position by both GPS and traditional techniques such as bearings and dead reckoning
  • The “Seaman’s Eye” – simple skills for checking that one is on course

 

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Membership

Member, Non-member

Quantity

One person, Two people (sharing materials)

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  • Celestial Navigation

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  • handheld compass

    Advanced Marine Navigation

    $60.00 – $140.00
  • Boat Handling

    $60.00 – $135.00
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