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How to Navigate with a Traditional Nautical Chart

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Overview

Using Nautical Tools and Charts to Find Your Way at Sea

What you'll learn:
  • How to navigate with a traditional nautical chart and tools

In this course, you will learn the basics of how nautical charts are made to represent a portion of the Earth's surface, as well as how to use nautical tools to help you navigate on a chart. You'll learn how to plot your position with latitude and longitude, or with bearings and radar ranges to objects. Finally, you'll begin to understand compasses and magnetism and how they can affect your journey at sea.

Syllabus

  • Course and Instructor Introduction
  • What is a Nautical Chart?
  • Using Nautical Tools
  • Navigating on a Nautical Chart
  • End of the Course

Taught by

Christopher D. Nolan

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