Navigation Essentials On-Demand

Navigation Essentials provides the critical skills & knowledge you need to be safe operating any boat on the water. With a robust focus based on the Salish Sea, it prepares you to navigate anywhere in the world.

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Course curriculum

1. Navigation Essentials Introduction
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2. Course Materials
1. Module Preparation
2. Lesson 1: Flattening the Globe
3. Lesson 2: Navigation Charts
4. Lesson 3: Chart Orientation
5. Lesson 4: Chart Scales
6. Lesson 5: (Legacy Lesson) Online Chart Catalog
7. Lesson 6: Chart Symbols
8. Lesson 7: Electronic Navigation Charts
9. Lesson 8: Custom Printed ENCs
10. Lesson 9: Chart Apps
11. Module 1 Homework
1. Module 2 Preparation & Materials
2. Lesson 1: Two Systems - Three Structures
3. Lesson 2: Lateral Aids to Navigation
4. Lesson 3: Preferred Channel Navigation Aids
5. Lesson 4: Non-Lateral Aids to Navigation
6. Lesson 5: Cardinal Rules
7. Lesson 6: Field Trip!
1. Module 3 Overview & Materials
2. Lesson 1: Tools - Your Portland Plotter
3. Lesson 2: Tools - Your Dividers
4. Lesson 3: Latitude & Longitude
5. Lesson 4: Navigation Hygiene
6. Lesson 5: Finding Lat/Long for a Position
7. Lesson 6: Plotting a Position from Latitude and Longitude
1. About "Recorded Live" Sessions
2. Lesson 1: Distance "Recorded Live"
3. Lesson 2: True vs Magnetic Direction "Recorded Live"
4. Lesson 3: Magnetic Conversions "Recorded Live"
5. Lesson 4: Plotting Magnetic Courses "Recorded Live"
6. Lesson 5: Course, Heading, Track, Bearing
1. Lesson 1: Dead Reckoning Overview
2. Lesson 2: Time-Distance-Speed
3. Lesson 3: Getting Distance from a Log
4. Lesson 4: Dead Reckoning Practice
5. Lesson 5: The Ship's Log
1. Lesson 1: The WHY of Knowing Where You Are
2. Lesson 2: Module 2 Overview & Cardinal Rules
3. Lesson 3: Eyeball Navigation
4. Lesson 4: Bearings
5. Lesson 5: The Cross Bearing Fix
6. Lesson 6: Other Fixes
1. Lesson 1: Tide & Current Science
2. Lesson 2: Tides - The Big Picture
3. Lesson 3: The Effects of Tides on Our Boating
4. Lesson 4: Tide Tables
5. Lesson 5: How Deep?? (Transducers)
6. Lesson 6: Tides Exercise: Safe Anchorage
1. Lesson 1: CURRENTS! - vs Tides
2. Lesson 2: Reading Current Graphs & Tables
3. Lesson 3: Currents & Trends on the Salish Sea - Using Ports & Passes
4. Lesson 4: Currents Around the World
1. Lesson 1: Marine Weather Forecast
2. Lesson 2: Sources for Marine Weather Forecasts

About this course

$350.00
56 lessons
5.5 hours of video content

Navigation Essentials On-Demand

Course curriculum

Course Orientation, Build Phase Membership, and Materials

Module 1: Navigation Chart Orientation

Module 2: Aids to Navigation

Module 3: Latitude, Longitude and Position

Module 4: Distance, Direction & Plotting Courses

Module 5: Dead Reckoning

Module 6: Finding Yourself

Module 7: Tides Go Up and Down

Module 8: Currents Flow In and Out

Module 9: Marine Weather

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