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Navigation and Chartwork Regulations (IRPCS) Safety Meteorology Passage planning & pilotage Seamanship Passage planning and Pilotage Crew management Sailing Manoeuvring
Day Skipper
Having completed the theory and practical courses, you should be able to
Week 1
Some Nautical Terms Latitude / Longitude The Chart Position, Distance and Direction Buoyage and Visual Aids to Navigation
Nautical Terms
TURNBUCKLE BAGGYWRINKLE GOOSENECK STEM CLEW DOWNHAUL PORT WINCH
SHEET
HALYARD
MIZZEN
LEECH Please ask or refer to your LUFF Day Sipper Handbook p4-10
STANCHION
UPHAUL
Direction
WIND
Fore BOW
Windward
Port Starboard
STERN Aft
Leeward
Types of Projection
Mercator
Large scale and coastal charts. Good for direction Small scale, polar and planning charts
Gnomonic
Mollweides
School atlas ?
Chart Projections
Latitude Scale
Longitude
Longitude
Chart Information
Chart Corrections
Weekly Notices to Mariners National Hydrographic Office Website Chart Agent Some magazines and club journals
Chart Corrections
Example: Extract from Admiralty Notice to Mariners (2000)
INDEX OF CHARTS AFFECTED
Notices
6251
6251 England South Coast Channel Depth Delete depth 6m in position 50o24.8N 04o32.2W Replace with 5m. RYA Chart 2: (9752/98)
Chart Information
Drying Areas
Compass Rose
Data for determining the movement of tidal streams (direction and speed) for this chart..more next week.
Chart Symbols
Latitude : 45 40 . 4 N
Longitude: 005 48 . 1 W
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Position:
4540.40 N 00548.10 W
Plotting Position
Quaker SWM
Mouse Is. WCM Tidal Diamond M Warsash Rock (ID)
45o49.3N 006o20.4W
45o44.5N 006o12.4W
Symbol Positions
Chaplin Peak
Tidal Diamond E
Distance
Seal Island Pentire Lt. Beauty Pt Lt Linards Pt Lt. Whaler Rk Island off Renown Pt.
6.8 miles
3.5 miles
10.5miles
Direction
Johnson Pt Lt -> Port Rampton (water tower) Whale Bay marina > Holm Point Lt Johnson Pt Lt -> MacArthur LANBY
119(T)
256(T)
351(T)
326(T) from Lawrence RW Lanby. 6.05 miles 015(T) from Colville Pt Lt Ho. 11.3 miles
South Head Light Cape Woodward CG station
042(T) from Louisa Rks Lt. 2.7 miles 27m 214(T) from Outer Fraser. 4.1 miles 4.2m 295(T) from Elm Peak Radio Mst . 5.1 miles Drying 0.6m
Direction of Buoyage
Other Buoyage
Cardinal marks
Continuous Flashing
Safe Water
9 Flashes
DANGER
Safe Water
3 Flashes
2 Flashes
6 Short + 1 Long
Light Characteristics
Objects which carry a light, will have a magenta pling attached to their symbol, along with an abbreviation of how the light is lit.
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lights
Lateral Buoyage
Light Characteristics
Fl. R. 2.5s Flashing Red every 2.5 seconds Fl. G. 5s Flashing Green every 5 seconds 2 F.G (vert) Two fixed green lights one above the other Mo (U) Flash morse U (..-) Oc. R. 10s Occulting Red (flashing off) every 10s Iso. WRG. 3s 9m 8M Isophase 1.5s each phase, sectored white red and green, 9 metres high, visible from 8 miles