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Other Advanced Courses
Advanced
Piloting
Prerequisite: Piloting
Course, CPS Membership
Course Description: You will learn
advanced coastal
navigation principles to enable you to know, at all times, where you
are.
The vessel's position can be determined by using landmarks and aids to
navigation
- allowing for current, leeway, tides and tidal currents.
Course content: Become familiar with charts; the compass;
steering and timing a course; tides and tidal currents; effects of
current and leeway; methods of determining position; Running Fixes;
aids to navigation; electronic navigational aids, and the sextant.
Duration: 20 weeks
Celestial
Navigation
Prerequisite: Advanced
Piloting, CPS Membership
Course Description: This course combines
the original works of Junior Navigator and Navigator and applies the
sciences of cartography and astronomy to set a course and determine a
position at sea. Emphasis is placed on "how" to navigate and, with
basic math and calculator skills, the student will have little
difficulty. For proper study, the student will require the use of
Bowditch, current-year Nautical Almanac and Star Finder. (These items
must be ordered separately). The
student will also require a scientific hand-held calculator with
trigonometric capability.
Course content: Use of the sextant, electronic navigation, the
Nautical Almanac, sight reduction by formula and scientific calculator,
the Pilot and Great Circle charts and much, much more.
Duration: 24 weeks
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