Navigation (N)
Prerequisites: Navigation is open to all Active USPS Members and Family Members who have have successfully completed Junior Navigation
This is the second part of the study of offshore navigation. It further develops understanding of celestial navigation theory and essential shortcut emergency methods. Navigation introduces additional sight reduction techniques and develops greater skill and precision in sight taking, positioning, and orderly methods of carrying on the day's work of navigation at sea. Of particular interest and importance is the study of offshore navigation using minimal data and or equipment, such as when on a disabled vessel or lifeboat.
Navigation (N) Course Syllabus
| Class No. | Date | Sections | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sight Reduction I: Nautical Almanac & Law of Cosines Methods | ||
| 2 | Sight Reduction II: Special Methods | ||
| 3 | The Sextant and Sextant Altitude Corrections | ||
| 4 | Navigational Coordinates | ||
| 5 | Time | ||
| 6 | Compass Considerations | ||
| 7 | Solar and Lunar Phenomena | ||
| 8 | Identification of Celestial Bodies | ||
| 9 | Navigational Astronomy | ||
| 10 | Sight Reduction III: Pub. No. 249 | ||
| 11 | Great Circle Sailing | ||
| 12 | Emergency Navigation | ||
| 13 | Plotting | ||
| 14 | The Day's Work at Sea | ||
| Review | |||
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