Navigation Lessons

U.S. Captains Training Series - Course Made Good

U.S. Captains Training Series - Unknown Current

U.S. Captains Training Series - Geographic Range

U.S. Captains Training Series - Speed Made Good

U.S. Captains Training Series - Known Current

U.S. Captains Training Series - Course Made Good per Standard Compass

Welcome to Westview Sailing's Online RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Navigation Course. I am Duncan Wales, RYA instructor, and author of the seamanship and boat handling articles. I will be taking you through the exercises. Today, we are going to look at the Estimated Position.

Establishing where we are at sea is absolutely key and, as long as we have charted marks we can see, we can work up very accurate position. As we move further away from the land, it gets harder, and this is where Estimated Position comes into play...

Westview Sailing's Online RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Navigation Course - Estimated Position