Navigation Lessons

Westview Sailing's Online RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Navigation Course - Tidal Diamond and Tidal Stream Atlas

Westview Sailing's Online RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Navigation Course - Tidal Heights

Westview Sailing's Online RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Navigation Course - Rocks, Wrecks and Obstructions

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

The NauticEd is deservedly treated as the most advanced resource of the online sailing education in the world. It is very popular not only among the students and future navigators but also among the industry professionals willing to keep their skills and knowledge up-to-date.

This short video will demonstrate you how to calculate the set and drift and your vessel easily. The ability of correct and fast determination of these data is of course very important for the safe navigation of the vessel. That is why all navigators are expected to have clear understanding of the process.

Here is how these values are calculates - say we are sailing along and obtain the fix and our heading is eighty-five degrees magnetic and our speed is 4 knots...

Celestial Navigation for Sailors is the video seminar produced by Captain Tom Tursi from The Maryland School of Sailing and Seamanship. In this seminar the Captain will describe how to combine celestial navigation with the overall navigation process.

This concept will apply regardless of whether you perform celestial calculations using computer program or manually. The agenda of the discussion will include DR - The Cornerstone of Navigation, Celestial Geometry, Tools, Celestial Shot Data, Calculations, Plotting Your LOP, Position Fix, Running Fix, Summary, and some Additional Study.