Online Navigation Courses
If you’re looking to improve your navigation skills, don’t have the time to take a classroom course, the new online “Modern Marine Navigation” course the BoatUS Foundation and US Coast Guard Auxiliary sponsor could be the solution. The course can be taken anytime and the online students can stop and return to the program as their schedule allows.
The program uses a series of “voyage simulations” that provide navigation skills. Progress is monitored by quizzes to check progress, and students can review previous course material at any time .
Topics covered are:
- Reading and Interpreting nautical charts
- Reading and using the compass
- Plotting fixes and dead reckoning positions
- Courses laying, plotting positions and time-speed – distance calculations
- References for navigation materials and publications
- Using tide and current information
- Pre-planning and en route navigation practice.
The course designed for recreational boaters to learn critical navigation skills for casual boaters to learn skills for safe longer journeys. The course offered is available for a minable fee at www.BoatUS.org/navigation.
Keeping your boat ready for a safe and “uneventful” day on the river, lake or ocean is another requirement for safe boating. Protecting your boat from both the weather and insects is another requirement that can easily be managed without taking a course.
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