Course To Steer - Westview Sailing RYA Day Skipper Online 

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+Gemma Bailey Did you pass?

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yes, I did pass thank you ive just turned old enough to do pratical!

Wow that sounds good

That's exciting. I remember my skipper course fondly. I had even more fun taking and passing the 200 Ton Masters course with the USCG. BUT I never stop learning.

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You are indeed missing something. The Lat at 46º19'.00N does not fall on a parallel of latitude line as marked on the chart as these are spaced 10' apart and run from .0' to .10' to .20' etc.The long at 005º.00' did fall on a meridian line. Had that Lat been 46º20'.00 it would have fallen on a line of parallel of latitude and you would have had the fix on crossed lines but the lat was 46º19'.00 so that is why we are on the meridian line but not the line of parallel of latitude.

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After 1 hour of sailing you need to do a new course to steer for the next hour. If you view the example it says work out how long the passage will take you and if sailing for two hours allow for the tidal drift for each of those hours.

It applies to any vessel - motorboats included

Ah, perhaps the oreder doesent matter :)

@@stefanbergman4732 It does matter and this is a mistake in the video. It should be leeway, variation and then deviation. (LoVeD)

You are wrong, there is no mistake. It makes no difference whether you add the leeway before the variation or after as I did in the example (at 6'15") as it comes to the same thing. The important thing is to allow for the leeway before you see what deviation the steering compass has on this heading.

It doesn't matter as long as you allow for variation and leeway before seeing what deviation the steering compass has on that heading

​@@Westviewsailingexactly true!!

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I do...and a chart

Al Nothere lighting had knocked out all electronics while at sea. This my friend pointed ya true magnetic north to get home.

Then you join C and D and get a bearing of a line, but where did you get the bearing from? You say it's 357 degrees but where does that number come from? This is all too confusing for me.

You line up the grid on the compass on the plotter with a vertical or horizontal on the chart.

You need to work out how to use a plotter. go to westviewsailing.co.uk and sign up for the tutorial videos or check out the new Day Skipper blended learning course which we are about to start promoting on the westview website.

You rub out your workings after sailing the passage and re-use charts.

You draw the course to steer onto the chart and then depending on the wind on the day you follow the course either by running straight down it. As you say this is unlikely. If the wind is coming from forward of the beam you will tack away from the CTS and then back to it and then away from it until you reach your destination. Or you may tack across from one side of it to the other if the wind is dead ahead. Momitor your progress against the CTS and confirm position either with the GPS or via 3 point fixes, single point fix and depth, transit and cross bearing, etc.

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As best you can. Best course to windward and all that...and tack

Thank you. Do check out Stress-Free Sailing. I will leave Trim and Stability to others. I do cover it of course on the Yachtmaster course but my next video priority is Weather.

Correct I do mean this and have now replaced the video with boatspeed 6 knjots so 6 miles travelled in the hour

Correct, we are doing 6 knots so we will travel 6 miles in the hour. i say 6 knots when I should say 6 miles.

Well I am afraid you are wring and have completely misunderstood the concept of what we are teaching here with how to shape a course top steer.