Class Dates: Any two consecutive days
Instructor: Tony Pizzuti
Location: Bay Area Sailing School
Coastal Navigation is a non-sailing course with no prerequisites.
Course Outline
This interesting and challenging course covers everything needed to safely pilot a sailing vessel in near coastal or inland waters. You will learn to use: the instruments required for navigation, Federal navigation publications, tide and current tables. In addition, you will learn to convert courses and bearings to true, magnetic or compass, plot a chart position, and determine the course to steer to reach your destination. Also, the types and uses of lighted and unlighted navigation aids along with shapes, colors, and lights used in the buoyage system will be taught.
The training portion of this course takes place over two consecutive days. Then the student has one week to study and work on practice exams at home before the final examination.
Cost: $350 (includes the following)
16+ hours of classroom instruction.
All training materials and practice materials included
Navigation Instruments: Calculator, notebook, pencils, eraser.
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