How do you read Nav charts??
Submitted by wadetolley on Tue, 2009-04-14 06:13
HI there! Im keen to learn how to read Nav charts. Would like to beable to find a place to go fishing on the chart, and then work out its bearings, put it into my gps...then go there.
Have trawled the net for info, but im sure they are making it harder than it has to be. Also what gear do you need rulers ect Any help would be mint..cheers!
granta
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wadetolley
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Cheers
Cheers, will check them out..thanks!
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Blank Cheque
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What a good reason for a beer??
Reason for a beer.
Mate your a long way from me but only two willing to help. I am in Mandurah do you head down this way at all???
Give me a PM if you dont mind with contact number and i will give ya a call with some tips. I am sure by the time we all chip in you will be a ledgen at it.
Its a bit late to head home early.
Its a little late to head home early
Lucky Tim
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It's something that is
It's something that is really easy to show someone but very confusing to type. If I was heading out to a location pulled off a nautical chart I'd take a lat and long coordinate instead of a range and bearing. Much more accurate and you can still get there if you decide to stray off course. Get yourself a slide or parallel rule and a set of dividers, or if you are only going to do this occasionally a normal ruler will work ok.
Where you might get caught is you will be taking lat and long in a degrees/minutes/seconds format, where your GPS is probably set to display as degrees/ minutes then decimals of a minute. Might only be a small difference but could be enough to have you miss your spot. Easiest way is to get a GPS plotter for your boat. Second easiest is to go somewhere like Chart and Map Shop in Freo, buy the rulers etc and they will show you how. Otherwise do a course in Coastal Navigation. If you do the course you learn some good stuff like how to fix and navigate home if your GPS packs it in.
Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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Chart work!
I'm happy to show you also Wade or if ya chasin a quick coarse then John Adams (local) does one #9330 2421 or #0405 209 101
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wadetolley
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cheers
Thanks Ryan, was going to do the sounder course with him soon, so i might as well kill two fish with one stone.
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