Accredited Navigation Course Bundle – What You Get

 

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Accredited Navigation Course Bundle – What You Get
34 step by step videos

• Unlimited support via phone or email
• Learning terminology and chart conventions
• Where on Earth are we? And what does that mean?
• Time conversions, Speed Distance and Time,
• Learning all about the chart and chart corrections (notices to mariners)
• Chart work, chart scale
• Latitude and longitude, plotting
• Position fixing (GPS, bearing and distance, direction)
• Understanding and applying Variation
• Understanding and applying Deviation
• Learn how to check your boat’s Deviation
• Converting True to Compass and Compass to True
• Finding your position without GPS: 3-bearing fix, deduced reckoning, (estimated position, set and drift)
• Passage Planning (now a separate workshop)
• Collision Regulations (now a separate workshop)
• Introduction into Weather (now a separate workshop)
• Understand chart reliability
• Identify charts symbols, dangers, soundings, lights etc
• Understand and apply tidal and current information
• Relative bearings, Transit bearings, Running Fix, Double the angle on the bow
• Tides, Find the Depth (in the Passage Planning Workshop)
  Under keel Clearance (in the Passage Planning Workshop)

Passage Planning

• Step-by-step we go through the processes and procedures to create a Passage Plan
• Sample Passage Plan
• Passage Plan Template
• Samples from a Safety Management System (SMS)
• Safety Management System Template
• Navigation techniques for quick and easy position checking en route.
• MORE THAN 20 DOWNLOADS – CHECKLISTS – TIPS – INFO – REMINDERS ETC (see list below)
• 5 QUIZZES – step by step to check your progress
• 5 CROSSWORDS – a fun way to test your knowledge
• BOOKLET – Tides, Under Keel Clearance
• 20 VIDEOS – sit back and learn
• EMERGENCY CHECK LISTS
• Navigation reminders (video):
  Plotting, bearings, Notices to Mariners, 3-bearing fix, transits, bearings, soundings, DR, EP
  Free Surface Effect
• Fuel calculations
• Crew responsibilities and watches
• Chart details and planning
• Appraisal, planning, execution, and monitoring

DOWNLOADS
Passage Plan Example
Passage Plan Template
The Theory of Tides Booklet
Alarms
Check list before sailing
Cyclone Preparation
Daily checks when underway
Date Log regular checks when underway
HF Radio Stations from BOM
Info – compass to true and true to compass reminders
Info – speed, distance, time
Info – formula and useful information
Info – Mayday calling procedure
Info – Mayday – Pan Pan – Securite
Log Engine Oil
Navigation check list
Night Watch tips
Personal Items
Routine checks
Safety Management Systems Template/samples
Example of SMS SOPS (Standard Operational Procedures)
Safety Environment – Sample
Emergency Procedures – Sample
Responsibilities and Authorities – Sample

Weather

• Unlimited support via phone or email
• Video presentations taking you through:
  • Introduction to weather
  • What is weather?
  • What causes weather?
  • Trade winds
  • Clouds
  • Synoptic charts
  • Isobars
  • Highs and lows
  • Cyclones/Tropical revolving storms: development and warning signs: action
  • Ridges, troughs, frontal depressions
  • Warm and cold fronts, occluded fronts: what does this mean to us?
  • Jet streams
  • Line squalls
  • Local weather patters
  • Storm surge
  • Synoptic charts – forecast and a case study
  • Barometer
  • Pressure and wind strength

PLUS
7 QUIZZES to test your knowledge step-by-step
21 VIDEOS, sit back and watch and learn
CHECKLIST – Cyclone Preparation (download)
ARTICLE/PHOTOS – Clouds
ARTICLE – Interpret, adjust, prepare: forecasting
TIPS/TRICKS – what we learned to watch for with over 20 years on the water
DISCOUNTED BOOK: Understand Weather – A Mariner’s Guide

Collision Regulations

• Unlimited support via phone or email
• Video presentations taking you through the key elements of lights and shapes
• Practice quizzes
• Our personal technique to help you remember the lights/shapes and build on that knowledge