navigation

How learning the basics of weather can keep you in the right spots while on passage  (published July 2014) I stood there, facing the seated crowd […]

How to use your electronic charting system for navigation, even if your GPS fails  (published March 2014) We might assume an electronic charting system (ECS) is […]

Here are the charts and guides you need to safely navigate and cruise the Caribbean  (published January 2014) Every fall hundreds of boats depart the East […]

Know where you are when your most important systems fail  (published January 2014) It’s a question of if, not when your main navigation equipment fails. Of […]

Where to look when building redundancy into your boat’s systems  (published January 2014) Cruising boats are simple but contradictory things: a heap of essential, often complex, […]

Why we should learn to navigate  (published January 2014) If you rely solely on GPS to navigate in the fog, you will not know if it […]

How magnetic compasses work in the real world  (published January 2014) It was a bitter cold night. We left Newport, R.I. at 0300 that morning, and […]

(published December 2013) NOAA recently announced that the U.S. government is discontinuing printing of the traditional lithographic paper charts in April, 2014. The reasons given include […]

  How to use this popular GPS game to become a better navigator  (published November 2013) The hobby of geocaching has been popular for many years […]

How to calculate the true wind and why it matters to sailors  (published September 2013) There are several ways to define the wind. For weather work […]