This course will provide a comprehensive deep dive into the essential navigation tools and techniques needed to expand your cruising horizons. Course topics include:
- Fix, Datum, and Soundings—You can trust GPS but can you trust the chart?
- Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) differences, features, benefits, and drawbacks
- The dangers of auto-routing navigation apps
- What electronics we really need for long-range navigation
- GPS awareness
- Multi-function display (MFD)/Chartplotter optimization
- Fathometer settings
- Aids to Navigation/AIS Aids to Navigation/Cardinal Buoyage/RACONs/Sector Lights
- Advanced voyage planning
- Risks of crowd-sourced data
- Beware the Magenta Line
- And more!
This is a 201/301 level course for intermediate and advanced boaters and assumes the fundamentals of navigation underway and chart reading are already well established.
