Your life depends on how well you know operate your boat satellite navigation system. Sailing is fun. But it could turn into a life and death situation if you end up in the open ocean and have problems operating and interpreting your navigation systems.
Instructions
1. Read your Boat Satellite Navigation system owners manual. Go through it from cover to cover. Find out if there's a school that trains people on use this system. Attend it if there's one. Make sure that you do every exercise there is in the course and dedicate extra time to operate the navigation system.
2. Find software that gives a real life simulation of the Boat Satellite Navigation system. Many games provide first hand experience on the computer. Games that train your brain to function as if it were dealing with the real scenario. Play this boat navigation simulation until you get proficient.
3. Test your Boat Satellite Navigation system a day before you pull away from the dock. Your owner's manual should have a pre underway checklist to go through. You don't want to go out into the open water with a faulty boat navigation system.
4. Know manually plot your location on the chart using other methods. You want to test both manual and automatic boat navigation systems. Cut fixes from landmarks, get both bearing and range fixes, when navigating near land. Check this against the Boat Satellite Navigation system's coordinates.
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