The Chart Plotter - from Westview Sailing's Day Skipper and Yachtmaster distance learning courses 

The RYA shore based courses concentrate on the traditional navigational skills, obviously. But there is also a need to show students what's out there on the electronic front, what the programmes and apps a telling you and just how much you can rely on the equipment. Of course we always back everything up with a paper plot and treat with caution what the electronics tell us but it would be unrealistic to imagine that we don't rely on them quite heavily, because we do. So we had better understand what they can do and their limitations and that is what this video is aimed to do. It is part of our distance learning courses along with Electronic Aids to Navigation videos and simulator videos for MARPA and RADAR from Martin Quaintance of Nautical Software.com and this video is also in our Westview Tutorial video vault for those who subscribe