Becoming a Coastal Navigation Instructor
Here is the fastest way for a Quebecer to become a Sail Canada instructor: get certified in another province!
navigation
Passage Planning: Text 3 (out of 3)
This is the third text on how to build a navigation plan. It uses a boat delivery from the Bahamas to Canada to flesh out a real example. Read it to understand how.
Passage Planning Part 2: An Example
This is the second of three texts on how to build a navigation plan. It uses a real passage plan from the Bahamas to Canada. Read it to understand how to plan a passage.
Passage Planning: Text 1 (out of 3)
This first text of three shows a recipe to build a passage plan. Read it to understand and master the process of planning a safe navigation.
Automated Routing: Basic Principles
Read this if you wish to understand how onboard computers find time minimizing routes.
Identifying the Course to Steer Algebraically
Tired of the graphical addition of vectors? Learn algebra and remember those trigonometric identities thaught by your high-school teacher
A Software For Drawing Navigation Symbols
This software is for instructors and professors of navigation. It draws navigation vectors as per the International Maritime Organization drawing convention.
How Nautical Charts Represent the World
It is not a conspiracy, nor a computer bug. It is a fact established mathematical fact in 1837: every rectangular map of the world is a lie.
The Rules of Twelfths and Twentieths
Is the rule of sixths better than the Oceans and Fisheries “rule of twenthieths” for manually calculating tides? Here is the punchline: they both yield similar results.
On the Closest Point of Approach
The practical use of the CPA/TCPA pair is to evaluate the risk of collisions. If the CPA of a boat is zero (or close to zero), there is a collision risk and the skipper should alter the boat’s current course to increase the CPA.