Day Skipper Navigation - Student Support Page
Welcome to the Day Skipper Navigation Course Support Page
On this page we reproduce documents and support material that you will need for your course
Day Skipper Evening Navigation Course 09-10 Course Programme
Day Skipper Distance Learning Navigation Course 09-10 Course Programme
1. Syllabus, Equipment, Intro to Met, Nautical Terms, Charts
Course materials, Presentation - Chartwork, Sources of Forecast, Sheet for taking down Irish Sea Area Forecast
2. Meteorology 1, Charts, Seamanship
Presentation on Seamanship, Presentation on Fog, Presentation on Sea Breeze Extra Presentation - Effects of land on wind
3. Meteorology 2, Buoyage, Tides 1
Presentation on Buoyage, Presentation on Depressions and Passage of Frontal Systems, Presentation on Intro to Tides
Answers to: Seamanship Ex 1 Q 2- 8, Chart Familiarisation Ex 2 Q 5-10
Presentation on Tidal Heights, Presentation on Tidal Curve, Presentation on Secondary Ports.
Answers to: Tides Ex 3 Q 1-3, Buoyage Ex 7 Q 1-3
Module 5. Tidal Streams and Compass
Presentation on Tidal Streams, Presentation on Compass
Answers to: Tidal Heights Ex 3 Q 1- 14
Module 6. Safety, Distress and Rescue + Plotting a fix
Presentation on Safety Presentation on Plotting a fix
Answers to: Tidal Streams Ex 3 Q 13-18 Compass Ex 4 Q 1-4
Module 7. Position Finding, Dead Reckoning and Estimated Position (DR + EP)
Notes on Plotting a fix and DR,EP Template for EP
Answers to: Safety Ex 8
Module 8. Lights, Shapes and Sounds
Presentation on Lights, Shapes and Sounds
Answers to: DREP Ex 4 Q 9-14, Example DREP Q12
Module 9. Course to Steer and ETA. Navigation Instruments
Notes on Course to Steer . Presentation on Navigation Instruments
Answers to: Collision Regulations Ex 11
Module 10. Electronic Navigation
Presentation on Navigation Instruments
Answers to: Chartwork -Course to Steer Ex 5
Module 11. Pilotage and General Assessment Paper
Presentation on Pilotage
Answers to: Using GPS Ex 6
Module 12. Passage Planning + Pilotage 2
Presentation on Passage Planning
Answers to: Pilotage Ex 7 Q4
Module 13. Revision, E-Nav, Passage Planning 2
Sample Passage Plan
Answers to: Passage Planning Ex
Eddie English Blog
Why did the Costa Concordia sink?
The town of Cobh has been a port of call for ocean liners for over 150 years - now about 60 liners visit Cork Harbour each year- we all love the liners! Everybody in the maritime community was shocked last Friday night with the news of the grounding of the massive Italian cruise liner the Costa Concordia. I spent the weekend trawling the web to try to find out what really happened - this blog is the tragic story of the last voyage of the Costa Concordia on Friday the 13th of January 2012.
