Coastal
Navigation
See the boats: Caribbean/Virgin Islands ASA Sailing School
Prerequisites: 101 - 103 - 104
This standard requires purchasing a large manual at a cost of
$60-$70 from ASA. We highly reccomend you go through the entire manual before
you arrive to sail.
Includes
a written test (takes most students about 2 hours)
- Explain chart symbols and conventions
on U.S. nautical charts in accordance with international terminology
- Identify
a source of official U.S. Coast Guard navigation publications
- List
the publications and instruments required for prudent navigation in the local
area including ASA minimum requirements
- Use
the tide and current tables to find times/heights of tides and direction/rate
of current at reference and secondary ports
- Convert
courses and bearings between true, magnetic and compass
- Check
compass deviation by means such as a transit bearing
- Plot
a dead reckoning position on a chart using speed, time and course to steer
- Allow
for the effect of current and leeway to plot the estimated position
- Determine
a course to steer which takes into account known current and leeway
- Determine
current given the course steered and speed and two observed positions.
- Plot
a chart position from terrestrial objects using various types of bearings, transit
range and distance off the object
- Use
the above techniques to chart a course of at least 20 miles and 3 course changes.
- Explain
the terms and characteristics used for lighted navigation aids
- Explain
the significance of shapes, colors, and lights used in the buoy system
See the boats: Caribbean/Virgin Islands ASA Sailing School
ASA is $20 per person, per level
• For example, ASA 101-103-104 is $60 per person
• You buy books, used is fine: amazon, powells
Add $39/person for anyone not already an ASA member.
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