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Students can practice electronic navigation as well as paper based. Create routes and waypoints and passage planning. Install the Maptech Chart Plotter on your boat computer, plug in a GPS and away you go..... Free digital charts include: - Aus 252 Whitsundays - 25641 British Virgin Islands - 12280 Chesapeake Bay - BA1267 Falmouth to Plymouth - NZ532 Approaches to Auckland |
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| Navigate in sheltered waters with reasonable access to safe anchorages | ||
| a. | Knowledge of navigation principles and techniques is applied to carry out routine navigational duties and prepare navigational plans | |
| b. | The IALA system of buoyage and other visual aids to navigation are correctly interpreted | |
| c. | Accurate position fixing is demonstrated, taking into account variables and sources of inaccuracies |
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| d. | Faultfinding procedures are used to identify and rectify defective radio equipment | |
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| Routine navigational duties | ||
| a. | taking and plotting fixes | |
| b. | estimation of tidal heights and fixes | |
| c. | course calculations to allow for tidal stream, leeway and drift | |
| d. | maintenance of navigational records | |
| e. | use of echo sounder and lead line | |
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