Learn and Master Electronic Chart Reading and Navigation Planning

Electronic Chart Navigation Workbook by David Burch ISBN 9780914025757 Paperback, 80 pages, 8.5" x 11" full-color illustrations Starpath Publications, 2023 Certified for use in American Sailing courses $29.00   ...item# 1996q

This workbook is designed to be used with the textbook Introduction to Electronic Chart Navigation. The exercises, glossary, and quizzes are correlated with chapter sections of that book. The workbook can be used for individual study or as part of course on electronic charts. In our own course on this topic we use qtVlm for our navigation program (electronic charting system, ECS) but the exercises can be worked with any ECS that meets basic electronic navigational chart (ENC) standards. These exercises are valuable preparation for the final demise of all traditional paper charts scheduled to be completed at the end of 2024—they are over 45% gone as of 4/6/2023. We also cover the user design and printing of the new NOAA Custom Chart (NCC) products that will serve as unofficial surrogates of traditional paper charts that can be used as prudent back-ups to the ENC, which will be the only official charts at the end of 2024. And this workbook covers the new way mariners must work with tide and current data now that the traditional NOAA tables were discontinued in 2020. Lesson 1. Introduction to ECS    Key Terms    Practice Exercises    Quiz Lesson 2. ENC Basics    Key Terms    Practice Exercises    Quiz Lesson 3. Tides, Lights, and Hazards    Key Terms    Practice Exercises    Quiz Lesson 4. Summary and Rescheming    Key Terms    Practice Exercises    Quiz Lesson 5. Tidal Currents and Piloting    Key Terms     Practice Exercises    Quiz Lesson 6. Waypoints, Routes, and Pathways     Key Terms    Practice Exercises    Quiz