This will help people studying for their Master 200 and the Officer of the Watch (Yacht 500).
You will also learn how to position fix using charted objects, calculate the compass course to steer and how to counteract tidal stream and leeway.
You will learn how to complete estimated positions, true set and drift, course to steer, running fixes, horizontal sextant angles questions and use luminous range diagrams.
You will also learn about the cause of tides and learn to calculate times and heights of tides at European and Pacific ports.
This online training is aligned with the UK MCA Master (Code vessels less than 200 GT) / Officer of the Watch (Yachts less than 500 GT) Oral Examination Syllabus.
You can see the content included within the Syllabus below.
Publications required under SOLAS
SOLAS Chapter V regulation 27 requires that all charts and publications for the intended voyage are adequate and up to date.
The following publications are required:
- The sailing directions describe coastal navigation and port approaches that ships may take.
- The list of lights covers navigational and light signal information for lights and fog signals. It covers lighthouses, lightships and floating lights.
- Notices to mariners contains weekly updates on critical navigational safety information.
- The tide tables provides the heights and times for ports around the world.
Passage Planning Principles
There are four stages of passage planning:
- Appraisal
- Planning
- Execution
- Monitoring
The principles remain the same regardless of if you are passage planning using paper charts, or using ECDIS.
The IMO Ship’s Roueting Guide
The IMO Ship’s Roueting Guide can be used at the appraisal stage of APEM.
The measures that are described or defined in parts are individually described in the following parts of the book:
- B – Traffic separation schemes and inshore traffic zones
- C – Deepwater routes
- D – Areas to be avoided
- E – Other routeing measures, such as recommended tracks, two-way routes and recommended directions of traffic flow
- F – The rules and recommendations on navigation that are associated with particular traffic areas and straits
- G – Mandatory ship reporting systems, mandatory routeing systems and mandatory no anchoring areas and
- H – Archipelagic sea lanes.
Admiralty Chart 5500
Admiralty Mariners’ Routeing Guide Chart – 5500 English Channel and Dover Strait is designed to assist in the appraisal stage of the passage planning by assisting with navigation and passage planning for English Channel and Dover Strait.
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