Navigation Basics for Boating

The course is designed to provide the student with the basics of understanding maritime navigation. The study of nautical charts is of fundamental importance to understand how to orient yourself and how to create an effective route.

Plotting tools are essential for any kind of navigation you are intended to take. The course will take you through the basics of how to use them in order to avoid any mistakes.

This course will take you through various techniques to determine your position at sea whilst navigating along the coast.

This course explains how to correctly plot a course on the nautical chart, allowing for the wind effect and the set and drift of the current.

This course gives a brief but exhaustive explanation of what passage planning means.

This course is designed to provide basic navigation knowledge by explaining geographical coordinates, magnetism and navigational terms.

This course will explain the basic concepts of tides and how they affect sailors.

This course is designed to provide up-to-date information about buoyage, their terms and meaning, for safe navigation worldwide.