Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr By: David Burch, Larry Brandt

Author: David Burch, Larry Brandt

This book provides over 500 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics • Piloting • Chart reading and plotting • Voyage planning • Dead reckoning • Compass use • Waypoint selection • Special publications • Rules of the road • Route design • Lights and buoys • Tides and currents • Electronic fixes • Depth sounding navigation    The level of the exercises is about that used in the USCG 100-Ton masters exam, which in turn is about the same used in the navigation certification programs of US Sailing, ASA, CYA and RYA. These practice problems are, however, designed to be practical and instructive, not just training exercises for certification exams. This Workbook is used by several navigation schools around the country. Selections are provided from each of these special publications along with exercises to insure their full use is Tide Tables • Current Tables • US Coast Pilot • USCG Light List • USCG Notices to Mariners. All tables needed are provided. The exercises that require a chart use nautical training chart No. 18465tr, available at reduced price from NOAA chart dealers or www.starpath.com/18465tr. You can also work the chart problems with an electronic chart (Raster Navigation Chart, RNC) number 18465, available at no charge as a download from www.starpath.com/18465tr. The echart can be viewed by any of several free echart viewer programs listed in this book. You can also use any full echart navigation program of your choice. We encourage navigators to solve the chart problems with both traditional paper plotting as well as electronically, using electronic bearing lines and range rings. The organization of the exercises follows the chapter structure of Inland and Coastal Navigation by David Burch, but other textbooks can also be used for background and reference.