1. The Chart: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Everything you need to know about the chart, source data, chart information and definitions, different types of charts and height definitions.
1. The Chart: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Everything you need to know about the chart, source data, chart information and definitions, different types of charts and height definitions.
2. Rocks, Wrecks & Obstructions: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Everything you need to know about rocks, wrecks and obstructions and what the chart symbols mean.
3. Plotting Your Position: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
How to plot a position on a chart, using a plotter and dividers
4. Magnetic Variation: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
The angular difference between true and magnetic north. Everything you need to know about magnetic variation and how to apply it. Move seemlessly from ºMagnetic to ºTrue and back to ºMagnetic.
5. Deviation: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
How local magnetic fields affect your steering compass. How to measure and how to allow for it. Move seemlessly from ºCompass to ºMagnetic to ºTrue and back again. This is the same for Day Skipper and Yachtmaster. The only difference is that Day Skippers are not required to allow for deviation in their exercise course work or their assessments. They simply need to know what it is. Yachtmasters, however will be working with deviation throughout their course and their assessments.
6. Fixing Your Position: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
How to fix your position. Beside a known mark, Three point fix, Single point fix and depth, Transit and cross bearing, Transit and depth, Sector light and depth, Radar range, Doubling the angle on the bow.
7. Tides: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
What causes our Tides. A quick look round the solar system. Tide Tables and how to read them. Spring tides, Neap tides, somewhere in between, Ranges and how the tide affects us.
9. Tidal Diamonds & Streams Atlas: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Tidal Diamonds and the Tidal Stream Atlas explained and how to use them to calculate the effect of the tide.
10. Leeway: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
What it is, how different boats are affected by leeway to different degrees, how point of sail makes a difference, how to allow it for when working out Estimated Positions and how to counter it when working out your Course To Steer. You need to know how to allow for the effect of Leeway in both Day skipper and Yachtmaster exercises and assessments.
11. Estimated Position: Day Skipper-Level Version
A reactive exercise. We work out where we are after we have sailed down a course for a set time at a set speed. We mark off our course steered and the distance travelled through the water to arrive at our Dead Reckoning position. We then allow for the effect of the tide and leeway to establish our Estimated Position. This is the Day skipper version and does not include Deviation. Allowing for Deviation is part of the Yachtmaster version.
12. Course-to-Steer: Day Skipper-Level Version
A proactive exercise. We work out where we want to go and then work out how to counter the effect of the tide and the wind in order to reach our destination. This is the Day Skipper version and does not include Deviation. allowing for Deviation is part of the Yachtmaster version
13. Estimated Position: Yachtmaster-Level Version
A reactive exercise. We work out where we are after we have sailed down a course for a set time at a set speed. This Yachtmaster tutorial includes the allowance for Deviation.
14. Course-to-Steer: Yachtmaster-Level Version
A proactive exercise. We work out where we want to go and then work out how to counter the effect of the tide and the wind in order to reach our destination. This Yachtmaster tutorial includes the allowance for Deviation.
15. Computation of Rates: Yachtmaster-Level Version
At Yachtmaster level we are never conveniently on a spring tide or a neap tide or half way in between. So we always have to compute the tidal rate from the range using the Computation of Rates Table. This is how you do it.
16. Time Zones: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Understanding and working with and across time zones.
17. Advanced Estimated Position: Yachtmaster-Level Version
This is a reasonably complex Estimated Position in that we are in the Southern Peninsula on SPDST, and with tidal stream information referred to HW Victoria in the Northern Territories we are working across two time zones. We set off and then have to alter course to avoid a tug and her tow and then resume our course. We are working across two tidal hours, we have to use the computation of rates table and of course we are dealing with deviation. All perfectly manageable if you break it down into bite sized chunks.
18. Projected EP - Yachtmaster-Level Only
We often need to project our Estimated Position to see if we will keep clear of a restricted zone or clear the headland. Here we use one to tell us how long it will be before we need to tack. Naturally we are working across two times zones, computing the tidal rate and running over more than one hour of tide. This is Yachtmaster level after all.
19. Two-Hour Course-to-Steer - The Works!: Yachtmaster-Level Only
Here we have a two hour plot. We are working across two time zones. We will need to compute the tidal rates. We will work to a scale and we will use some clearing bearings to avoid some obstructions. It is the works. It is slightly more involved than you will come across in your Yachtmaster assessment paper but if you can master this, you can master anything. We break everything down into simple steps to make things manageable.
20. Running Fix: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Find your position with the running Fix. You’ll love it. It is not in the Day skipper syllabus or the Yachtmaster but it is worth having a look at. At the very least it reminds you of the discipline of establishing an Estimated Position. At best it fixes your position. Think how impressive it would be when the GPS has gone on the blink and no one knows where you are, to tell the skipper, "Give me an hour and I will tell you where we are at the end of it." You will need to be in sight of a charted mark on the shore for that time, of course.
21. Tidal Heights: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
How to work out the height of tide at a Standard Port. Working out if you can get over a sill, or go over a drying area, or float while at anchor at low water, or have enough cable to veer at high water are essential for drama free boating.
22. Secondary Ports: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
How to work out the height of tide and time of HW at a Secondary Port. Not as difficult as all that. This step by step guide makes it very straight forward indeed. This is for Yachtmasters really, Day Skippers do not have a Secondary Port question, they just need to have 'an awareness of corrections for Secondary Ports', but it is worth Day Skippers having a look.
23. Aids To Navigation 1/3: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Safe Water Marks, Lateral Marks and Special Marks.
23a. Aids To Navigation 2/3: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Cardinal Marks, Isolated Danger Marks, Emergency Wreck Marking Buoys.
23b. Aids To Navigation 3/3: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Light Houses, Sector Lights, Leading Lights & Light Vessels.
24. Anchoring: Day Skipper & Yachtmaster
Light Houses, Sector Lights, Leading Lights & Light Vessels.
25. Which Tide Table? - Bite-Sized Version
How to make sure you are always using the correct tide table. This bite-sized version of the full video is a handy reminder to keep you on the straight and narrow
26. Which Tide Table - Full Version (DS)
How to make sure you are always using the correct tide table. This is the full version for Day Skippers. Worth a look.
27. Which Tide Table - Full Version (YM)
How to make sure you are always using the correct tide table. This is the full version for Yachtmasters and includes Secondary Port information. Worth a look.