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Intermediate Coastal Navigation Study Companion

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Independent advanced Canadian coastal-navigation preparation for current, leeway, intermediate tides, fixes, night pilotage, and longer passages. Independent knowledge preparation mapped to a published standard. Compass is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sail Canada. Completion does not award certification, demonstrate on-water competence, or replace recognized instruction and assessment. Plotting exercises use original fictional non-navigational charts rather than CHS chart reproductions.

Price
$49.99 once
Course size
10 modules
Access
Lifetime access
Format
Independent online study companion
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Keep Navigation and Collision Avoidance in One Watch

From Navigator Responsibility and Collision Rules

What you will learn

Organise chartwork, position monitoring and lookout so the navigator adds evidence without removing the vessel's collision-avoidance capacity.

Explanation

The navigator is not a head-down plotter working beside a separate collision problem. Route progress, position uncertainty, traffic, visibility, safe speed and escape room form one changing watch picture, and someone must remain able to detect and act while navigation work is done.

Sail Canada's Intermediate Coastal Navigation standard asks the learner to plan and execute a long continuous passage, including night sailing and all conditions of visibility, with or without electronic aids. It names the navigator's responsibilities with specific reference to Rules 5, 6, 10 and 19. That is an operational integration task: the navigator must know where the vessel is, where the route leads and what traffic or visibility change makes the plan unsafe.

Rule 5 still requires a proper lookout at all times by sight, hearing and every appropriate available means. Assigning a navigator does not transfer that duty to a chart table or display. Before anyone becomes absorbed in a plot, brief who owns the full-horizon scan, who monitors the instruments, which observations must be called aloud and what event immediately interrupts the navigation task.

Brief the next ten minutes, not the whole passage

A coastal leg is on plan, but a new traffic cluster is forming near the next course alteration.

Sense check: A brief is not closed until the person taking the watch can repeat both the next action and the condition that changes it.

Common mistake

Letting chartwork distract both available watchkeepers from lookout

Recap

  • Navigation and collision avoidance share one watch picture.
  • Protect lookout before beginning head-down work.
  • Rule 2 does not excuse plan-following through immediate danger.
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Flashcards, audio and interactive tools remain optional support inside the module; they do not replace the Learn → Practise → Test route.

Course route

Learn the knowledge, then take it afloat with an instructor

1Free

Navigator Responsibility and Collision Rules

Integrated watchkeeping, Rule 2 responsibility, lookout, safe speed, collision risk, clear action, traffic separation, restricted visibility, Canadian directions, and the effect of Rules 5–8, 10, and 19.

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2Full access

Intermediate Tidal Heights

Tidal curves, interpolation, secondary stations, datum, time zones, and uncertainty.

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3Full access

Current Atlases and Intermediate Rates

Reference ports, atlas arrows, chart tables, interpolation, turns, rate, direction, and local limitations.

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4Full access

Deviation and Instrument Calibration

Transit checks, deviation cards, compass headings, depth-sounder offsets, and log calibration.

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5Full access

Leeway Estimation

Wind-driven sideways motion, signs, estimates, course correction, vessel differences, and changing conditions.

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6Full access

Canadian Aids and Regions A/B

Canadian lateral and other aids, daybeacons, light characteristics, Region A/B comparison, and geographic applicability.

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7Full access

Set, Drift, Course to Steer, and EP

Deriving current from observed positions, applying a known current, leeway, vector triangles, and estimated positions.

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8Full access

Running Fixes and Distance/Bearing Fixes

Advancing lines of position, running fixes, one-object methods, soundings, dipping ranges, and uncertainty.

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9Full access

Night and Restricted-Visibility Pilotage

Light identification, clearing lines, safe sectors, depth contours, radar/electronic support, timing, and contingency plans.

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10Full access

Long-Passage Planning and Electronic Checks

Appraisal, route strategy, weather, tides, current, nightfall, traffic, electronics, alternates, and monitoring.

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What the companion includes

Clear knowledge and practical boundaries

  • Original lessons and explanations
  • At least 18 explained questions and 12 flashcards per module
  • Three 40-question mixed knowledge assessments
  • Canada terminology, jurisdiction, and primary-source context
  • Practical-awareness prompts clearly separated from assessed knowledge

Not included

  • Sail Canada certification or an official examination
  • A Pleasure Craft Operator Card or ROC(M) certificate
  • Instructor-observed practical assessment
  • Copied textbook, chart, manual, or examination content
  • A guarantee of school, examiner, or charter-operator acceptance

Editorial record

Primary-source review

Original content is reviewed against published Sail Canada standards and current Canadian government sources. Provincial and local requirements must be checked separately.