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Thursday night training - navigation

Posted by Mark Presling
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Date: 
Thu, 07/03/2013

This was a land-based navigation and chartwork session. Items covered were:

Chart

  • Mercator projection
  • lat/lon
  • depth contours
  • chart marks for rocks, buoys, cardinal
  • compass rose

Compass

  • variation / deviation
  • plotting a passage
  • true / magnetic
  • distance
  • etc
Turnout: 
10 people
Total Volunteer Hours: 
20


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