Commercial sailer for many years and this vid was full of great fundemtal information

I have never been responsible for navigating a vessel (or car for that matter) worth over 100k offshore or a crossing but came close when a friend wanted to take his Benni to Cuba during the Obama thaw. But when I wanted to plan it carefully and learn his boats aids first, he quickly realized we needed a lot more practice. This guide is great for developing good habits and knowledge for novices to be safer everywhere. Very complete and well-paced that is everything expected from a serious school. Nobody plans a bad day except maybe the likes of Stephen King. Thanks

Excellent tutorial. As well as a sailor I've taught flying for many years. The balance between electronics and physical charting are common, and sometimes heated, arguments, in reality, both have their place. You showed the potential for problems with overreliance on Electronics, I have also seen problems with people not using electronics/aids e.g. over 80% of air space incursions in the UK could potentially have been avoided with the use of even portable chart plotters. On boats, I've seen some skippers spending way too much time at nav stations below decks fixing points, writing up logs, Etc. rather than being in the cockpit (not necessarily at the wheel) because "I was taught this is the PROPER way to do it" . As I said there's a balance and as most electronics imitate written procedures the PROPER way is a great place to start.

Thank you Cap'n Tom for such a logical, well demonstrated look at responsible cruise. preparation. I thoroughly recommend your courses and videos to all. Fair winds.

That is so much information. I learned so much. thank you for taking the time to make a video.

This appeared in my recomendations and its totally opened up a new love for navigation both on land and at sea

When I took the USCG 200 ton master course, the paper charts were emphasized because of the failure of chartplotters and all the reasons you mentioned. My paper charts are my most critical tool and I don't need a power source. In the event of a power failure, you're not dead in the water guessing if you're on your rumb line.

Wow! Well organized, well presented. Surprisingly good block of instruction. Thank you.

As always, very thorough. Thanks Captain.

Wow. This is well done.

Thank you Captain! Brilliant explanations!

I always to enjoy to see your well made video's. It's amazing how much I learned from your videos. Wondering if you are teaching also non citizens students to get them an ASA certification.

Very valuable for any coastal cruising. Thanks for this great video

Brilliant explanation! Thank you very much!

Great vid, well explained, thanks Captain.

Thank You.You greatly helped me to explain that charting a course is more than looking at a chart plotter to my grandkids. BZ

That was awesome. Thank you.

Excellent ! Though I am in Sweden I still learned a lot of your preparation.

Great video! Thanks!

I really did enjoy that. It’s important to know how it’s done right.

Great information for the novice thanks for sharing

That as a very good refresher. Thanks.

Superb tutorial !

Thank you for this video. Advanced navigation from a paper chart is so important. Lose your electronics and your lost... not if you took some time to learn the basics. Boy... the electronics are so nice tho🤣

Thank you, I learned a lot

excellent review

Thanks, a good presentation. I’ll now have to find the U.K. equivalent publications.

I realy love this

Excellent 👍

Excellent video, a must in preparations and I wonder how many do this level of prep before going into sea....

Thank you

Sir thank you so much

hello thanks for sharing 👍 saludos

Thanks alot Sir

At 23:01, on the right hand page, does that say temporary MINEFIELD!? Yikes.

No one does it better than the MD School of S&S

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I saw pubs and I thought you were talking about drinking holes…

So if I was planning a trip from Marina Del Rey south to the horn of South America and then north towards Chesapeake Bay VA. And kept 35 Kmiles off shore, would I need to have a current passport? I’m not planning on making landfall until I enter Chesapeake.

Great video! I do have a question. What happens if due to the wind direction and other weather issues you can't follow the plotted course? Thank you.

I don't understand how navigational software can't have an algorithm that detects an object on your trajectory regardless of what scale your map is zoomed too? How is this software not available?

You make it sound like you cannot obtain raster charts electronically. Of course, you can (but sadly, not for too much longer). I have paper charts for sure, but this idea that you MUST use paper I think is outdated (in another year or two, NOAA will eliminate paper charts). Raster charts on several different electronic devices (computer, tablet, phone) should be consulted ahead of time -- I agree -- but the focus on paper, I think it too over the top. Also, setting a bunch of electronic waypoints ahead of time and pushing them to the plotter is IMHO, overkill. DOing waypoints along the way force you to focus on your course and allow you to make adjustments as you go as opposed to slavish devotion to a bunch of waypoints done at your coffee table at home. Once you set the rhumb line, you must then zoom down and folo=low the entire length of the line to check depths and obstructions. You then do the same thing as you zoom out a few more levels. I continually check charts at various zoom levels as we go along (usually on my phone) while the boat's plotter has the single waypoint. When we hit that one, I re-do everything and do another waypoint. This forces me to re-evaluate, continuously, the course. Every new waypoint results in a magnetic heading for the helmsman (in case the electronics crap out -- hard to believe that ALL the separate electronics (boat plotters, phone Navionics, Tablet Navionics, computer OpenCPN) would fail at once. Soon, there will be no paper charting because there will be no paper charts (that are current anyway). SO, I think everyone should be pressing for electronic nav now, because your system will soon be going the way of the horse and buggy.