Yachtmaster Navigation Student Support Page
Welcome to the Yachtmaster Navigation Course Support Page
On this page we reproduce documents and support material that you will need for your course
Yachtmaster Evening Navigation Course 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
3. Meteorology 2, Buoyage, Tides 1
Presentation on Buoyage, Presentation on Depressions and Passage of Frontal Systems, Presentation on Clouds, 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. Article on Secondary Ports
Answers to: Tides Ex 3 Q 1-3, Buoyage Ex 7 Q 1-3
Presentation on Tidal Streams, Presentation on Compass
Answers to: Tidal Heights Ex 2 Example Tidal Hts Ex 2 Q 6 Ex 2 Q 7
6. Safety, Distress and Rescue + Plotting a fix
Presentation on Safety, Presentation on Fix, Presentation on Stability
Answers to: Tidal Streams Compass
7. Position Finding, Dead Reckoning and Estimated Position (DR + EP)
Presentation on
Answers to:
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.
