Navigation - Finding a Course

Captain Dave Medeiros talks about Finding A Course

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Navigation Plotting is an essential skill for working in the maritime industry. This video is an introduction to some of those concepts. If you've spent lots of time on the water, but have not pursued a professional license, you should consider yourself a candidate for an Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels (OUPV) 6-Pack license. This license allows you to charter vessels with up to 6 paying passenger and is the first step to a career in the maritime industry, full-time or part-time!

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[LexLuthor]

Thank you Sir, - i am just learning to navigate, and i find your videos most useful :)

[flyinghawk]

Thank you very much capt: for your teaching of every lesson and navigation knowledge. Wish best more knowledge of regarding navigation lesson as well as secondary tide.

[meanhombre]

Outstanding work. Good information, thank you.

[huraibyel-huraiby]

Excellent explanation of fundamental charting principles

[GoBrits]

Pardon my ignorance, but why not just do all calculations in magnetic degrees and skip the constant translation between true and magnetic ? I have a feeling the answer is that individual compasses contain errors and variations changes so we can at least see those by starting out in true

[YTviewer]

Adding west from compass to true? I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. TVMDC +w -e and +e -w CDMVT.

[azanasiaandromanetsiku]

Txs for your explanation professor . I'd like to know what kind of chart is this .I mean I noticed that the meridians and parallels have a kind or curve can you please explain in what is it referring

[deymhahaha]

Hi Sir Can I ask you about what is the importance of accurately calculating and measuring the navigational information?

[tadejkrek]

If a ship sails at a course of 62 on magnetic kompass and variation is 20W and deviation is +3. Then true course would be 45 degrees. Am i correct? Im new to this so

[jacmaclar]

Pardon me but I think you made an error — compass to true you add East not subtract it (CADET)

[moriver]

Not sure why bother with true north and do the math when as one uses parallel rules or another straight edge on the compass course, the mag course is already there as you showed. I migrated to sailing from aviation, and we never used true north, always magnetic. Even the runways numbers are magnetic, and every so many years the numbers change due to a variation change. The deviation I understand as airplanes heve their own and gets calibrated. I'll continue to read mag on the compass rose and add or subtract deviation as need and eliminate the confusion. Good video, though.

[grrad]

Thx for nice explanation but what if we have 2 different variations value on the map how to know which number we have to consider?

[nejichijavadze]

As much as I knoe variation must be calculated not taken from chart exactly

[nurlatifahmohdnor]

Complex.




If I look up, stars help.



O.K. Mens' job.