See
our Sailing School Yachts:
Caribbean, Bahamas, Pacific NW
Prerequisites:
101 -
103 - 104
ASA 105 uses
a large manual, workbook and DVD. We highly reccomend you go through all of the
material before you arrive to sail.
Includes
a written test (takes most students about 2 hours)
- Explain chart
symbols and conventions on U.S. nautical charts in accordance with international
terminology
- Identify a source of
official U.S. Coast Guard navigation publications
- List
the publications and instruments required for prudent navigation in the local
area including ASA minimum requirements
- Use
the tide and current tables to find times/heights of tides and direction/rate
of current at reference and secondary ports
- Convert
courses and bearings between true, magnetic and compass
- Check
compass deviation by means such as a transit bearing
- Plot
a dead reckoning position on a chart using speed, time and course to steer
- Allow
for the effect of current and leeway to plot the estimated position
- Determine
a course to steer which takes into account known current and leeway
- Determine
current given the course steered and speed and two observed positions.
- Plot
a chart position from terrestrial objects using various types of bearings, transit
range and distance off the object
- Use
the above techniques to chart a course of at least 20 miles and 3 course changes.
- Explain
the terms and characteristics used for lighted navigation aids
- Explain
the significance of shapes, colors, and lights used in the buoy system
See
our Sailing School Yachts:
Caribbean, Bahamas, Pacific NW
