Coastal Navigation is a pre-requisite course for the Intermediate level. It is a comprehensive program designed to develop essential navigation skills. The course focuses on developing chart reading, course plotting, and passage planning skills required to safely navigate a recreational vessel in coastal waters.

For more details, you can refer to the Sail Canada Basic Coastal Navigation Standard: 

https://fr.sailing.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Basic-Coastal-Navigation-3-March-2023r.pdf

Prerequisites:

• PCOC (Pleasure Craft Operator Card)

• Basic Cruising Standard

Upon Completion:

• Sail Canada Certificate

• Logbook

Instructor: Jamie Gordon, Evaluator and Senior Sail Canada Instructor

Course Includes:

• Charts and how to use navigation tools

• Aids to navigation

• True variation and deviation

• Determining your position using dead reckoning

• Running fixes and triangulation

• Effects of time, distance, speed, wind, current, and leeway

• Plotting position

• GPS and final destination

You will have the opportunity to apply the theory with many practical exercises that show you how to determine your position on a nautical chart and how to safely reach your intended destination. You will also learn how to take drift and leeway into account and how to use tide and current tables.

The classroom course also fully prepares you for writing the Sail Canada exam and achieving the Sail Canada Basic Coastal Navigation Standard.