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• Bob Diamond
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Use the Cruise Guide Refer to the cruise before entering a port that is not entirely familiar. The Cruising Guide describes each port that explains how to respect and remember all the hazards. It also provides charts with GPS and practical route suggestions. In addition to essential information for navigation, which is Cruising Guide, a wealth of information on services, businesses, monuments, attractions and basic information for the region. Cruising guides and charts for the districts bareboat charters are available in most retail businesses and shops stores.Become Familiar with marine navigation aids are familiar with the navigation aid marking system (s charter) for the position. Charts and cruising guides are available, so the rental home that make the time to familiarize yourself with the area of navigation. There are two chief world systems side and a cardinal in use
• the system side "B" is used in North and South America and the Caribbean. And 'the system' red right-back, we know here. The red triangles mark the right side of the channel and the green squares on the left side of the trade channel when returning from sea. System Side "A" in Europe, Africa, Asia and South Pacific. In this system, the red buoys mark the left side of the channel when returning from sea. The cardinal system is used to determine whether the mark is located north, east, south or west of a particular obstacle. Two cones , one above the other, pointing above shows, gps navigation systems, the brand is located north of the obstruction. Two cones, one above the other, from top to bottom shows the brand is in the south of obstruction. Two cones, one above the ' other, tip to tip features a brand in the West and two cones base to base shows in the East as an obstacle. (For pictures see our website) These data are available only in the north, south, east or west a barrier, so stay north of the North-marker, south of the South-marker systems etc.Other bareboating met in the system are used in French Polynesia on channels between the Barrier Reef and the central island of each brand. In the lagoon, are Signs on the island in the channel with red squares and the outer reef side of the green channel with a GPS handheld triangles.Bring various brands and models of GPS are different user, gps navigation systems, interfaces so dominant means of a non-league of all. Good models are portable and PDAs cheap enough that every card you can buy a charter trip. In this way the time to learn the features and waypoints to be installed in each unit. Be careful with the "GO TO" function. This tells you the direction to the waypoint and the direction your boat tracking. You will also be off-piste, which measures (and was in that direction), the boat moves from the line of the selected course. Slippage is particularly useful when, after a course of obstacles on both sides. Moreover, the "GO TO" function will tell you how fast you go and how long will it take to reach the waypoint selection or destination.This last feature is extremely important. anchorages Many coral reefs and other obstacles in the area must be removed in the immediate vicinity. navigation in these areas will be done visually through the shallow water to avoid obstacles. This is during the hours of noon when the sun is high enough, so you can see the bottom easily. But after about 16.00 clock, you can not even through shallow water by low sun angle to see. This makes it virtually impossible to see what you have to run. Many accidents are due to premature (ie late) arrival in areas where was necessary to visually navigate through the shallow water on anchorage.For more information, please visit our website at http://www.spinnakersailing.com happened. For this article in its entirety, including links and photos, go to
• http://www.spinnakersailing.com/noframes/charters/navtips.Bob Diamond has been the head sailing instructor Spinnaker Sailing and group leader boating holidays in exotic locations since 1984
