Course covers everything in the ASA Coastal Navigation & Piloting Textbook and Workbook by Tom Tursi including chart symbols, publications, chart scaling, navigation rules, tide and current tables, List of lights, converting courses between true, magnetic, and compass, hand bearing compass, navigation tools, compass deviation, plotting a dead reckoning course using speed, time, and course to steer, understanding current and leeway and its effect on your estimated position, determining what course to steer taking into account current and leeway, two bearing fix, three bearing fix, estimated position, running fix, danger bearing, characteristics of lighted navigation aids, understanding the buoyage system, and more.
Prerequisites: None.
ASA105 Test, Test Instructions, Workbook Practice Chart, and Confirmation and General Instructions are delivered digitally when the student signs up.
The Tom Tursi Textbook and Work Book, Practice Chart for the test and Practice Chart for working Workbook problems are shipped for free by US mail in the continental US.
ASA105 Coastal Navigation Certification is issued by our partner Delmarva Sailing School. https://www.delmarvasailingschool.com/