This course will provide a comprehensive deep dive into the essential navigation tools and techniques needed to expand your cruising horizons.  Course topics include:

• Fix, Datum, and Soundings—You can trust GPS but can you trust the chart?
• Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) differences, features, benefits, and drawbacks
• The dangers of auto-routing navigation apps
• What electronics we really need for long-range navigation
• GPS awareness
• Multi-function display (MFD)/Chartplotter optimization
• Fathometer settings
• Aids to Navigation/AIS Aids to Navigation/Cardinal Buoyage/RACONs/Sector Lights
• Advanced voyage planning
• Risks of crowd-sourced data
• Beware the Magenta Line
• And more!

This is a 201/301 level course for intermediate and advanced boaters and assumes the fundamentals of navigation underway and chart reading are already well established.