Sat. 23/09, 10:30 am to approx. 1 pm
Fri. 29/09, 10:30 am to approx. 1 pm
Conference Center West, Room Schwarzwald
Electronic navigation on leisure boats has become so popular in the last few years, that most skippers just would not want to be without it anymore. It has a whole range of advantages over the traditional navigation, for example:
- It is relatively easy to use,
- A lot of information is available - and that very fast.
- Many alarm functions can be used to make life at sea a lot safer.
- Updating new chart information now takes only minutes.
Nevertheless, electronic navigation does have its limitations, which a skipper must be aware of.
This seminar is an introduction to the subject electronic navigation, and is ideal for skippers, sailors and boat owners, who have discovered yachting as a new hobby, and would like to travel safely at sea using electronic navigation on board.
The following subjects are presented on the screen:
- Introduction: Electronic charts on the market. The advantages and limitations of electronic navigation.
- Various alarm functions to enhance safe navigation.
- Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, etc.)
- NMEA/WiFi – Various connections between the equipment
- AIS: Interpreting and evaluating the AIS picture and information
- AutoPilot: Components. Various possibilities of using the AutoPilot.
- Radar: Collision-avoidance using MARPA, Guard zones, Doppler and Wake functions.
- Weather: Windfinder, GRIB screen,
- Further subjects: Echo-sounder, VHF-Radio, Electronic compasses, NAVTEX, etc.
During the practical part of the seminar, every participant gets a real plotter display unit (Raymarine 12” Axiom) to practice on, and go through the following exercises:
- Evaluating the electronic chart including all the symbols
- Evaluating the tide and current data
- Setting waypoints, routes and auto-routing
- Radar: Collision-avoidance using MARPA, Guard zones, Doppler and Wake functions.
- AIS: Interpreting and evaluating the AIS picture and information
- AutoPilot: Compass, waypoint and route steering. Search mode steering.
- Further subjects: Radar & AIS overlay, Echo-sounder, etc.
Seminar instructor Peter G. Boot is a British citizen and speaks fluent German. He spent many years at sea in the British, Canadian and South African merchant navies as a radio officer, and has combined this knowledge, together with over 25 years of experience in the radar industry, to present a highly realistic and easy-to-understand Electronic Navigation seminar.