Basic Coastal Navigation: Session 2

Basic Coastal Navigation: Session 2

Topics Pre-reading References Screencast (opens in a new window) Exercises Comments
2.1 Introduction  NA Screencast (2 mins) NA  Let’s get started!
2.2 Session 1 Review  See Session 1 notes as required Screencast1 (10 mins)
Screencast2 (9 mins)
Includes take up of  A1 Exercises. A2 and A3 are taken up in Screencast2
2.3 Finding Latitude and Longitude  Notes pages 38-40 Screencast (12 mins)
2.4 Compass Rose revisited  Notes page 31-32 Screencast (3 mins)
2.5 Finding Direction and Distance  Notes page 30 Screencast (10 mins) Exercises Section B
2.6 Plotting a Course Line   Notes page 30, 35-36 Screencast (4 mins) Exercises Section C
2.7 True Magnetic Compass Conversions  Notes pages 35-36, 47-49 Screencast (9.5 mins) Exercises Section D
2.8 Recording information – the Ship’s Log  Notes, page 42 Screencast (4 mins) NA
2.9 Homework Exercises in Sections B, C and D as noted above