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Chart Navigation Tips
These articles show you how to navigate the fast, easy way along any coastline in the world. Learn the secrets to adjusting your boat compass, turn your GPS into a powerful tacking tool, or tune your radar for peak performance.
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Chart Navigation Tips - Do You Know These Special Markers?
You are approaching an unfamiliar channel just after dusk. A light ahead blinks twice. It flashes once more--and then darkness. Does a danger lie ahead? Or a turn in the channel? Boost your chart navigation skills to the next level with these secrets of the special buoys and beacons . . .
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Sailing Chart Secrets VI - Chart Navigation Depth Symbols
Discover five ways to use depth contours for chart navigation, with your nautical GPS, or chart-plotter. Learn an easy technique more than a century old--to find your way home in pea-soup fog. Boost your sailing navigation skills to the next level with these tips from the pros! . . .
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Sailing Chart Secrets IV - Chart Navigation Buoyage Symbols!
Did you know that every buoy or beacon chart navigation symbol has five parts that will tell you what it looks like before you even see it? Or that you can use a simple keyword to time a navigation light with pinpoint accuracy--without a watch or stopwatch? Follow these easy tips to learn the secrets of the pros . . .
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Sailing Chart Secrets III - Chart Navigation Danger Symbols!
Would you like to download a FREE booklet that contains all the symbols and abbreviations used on a sailing chart? Could you tell the difference between a submerged wreck that's safe to sail across and one hidden just below the surface? Read on to learn the most vital chart symbols you need to know for chart navigation safety . . .
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Sailing Chart Secrets II - How to Use Title Blocks and Chart Notes
Did you realize that the title block gives you five vital pieces of information that can boost your sailing safety by 50% or more? Or that chart notes--often ignored--give you information that's vital to the safety of you and your sailing crew? Read on to learn all you need to know about chart title blocks, notes, and soundings . . .
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Sailing Chart Secrets I - Chart Choices for Small Boat Cruising
Did you know that you can find the latest sailing chart with a free internet site that's updated every day of the year? Or how--in a matter of seconds--you can select the charts you need aboard for small boat cruising anywhere in the world? Read on to learn these fast, easy tips that will save you lots of time and money! . . .
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Sailing Navigation Secrets - Easy Approaches Without Plotting
It's getting late and you need to make it through the narrow harbor entrance before dark. Swift current sets you hard to starboard. Nautical gps has proven unreliable. And all you see ahead are two small lights on tall cliffs to port and starboard. What sailing navigation method would make this tough approach much easier? . . .
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Increase Your Sailing Navigation Accuracy for Islands Cruising
Cruising folks in the Caribbean and Pacific report that your nautical gps can lead you astray by two or more miles when making landfall! How can you increase your sailing navigation accuracy in these places? Use this easy guide to set up a three-tier chart navigation system for worry-free cruising . . .
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Do You Know These Aids to Navigation Chart Symbols?
Do you know what the black dot or small circle means on a buoy or light structure? Can you tell the difference between a lighted or unlighted aid to navigation in less than two seconds? Follow these five easy steps to master these vital nautical chart symbols . . .
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