My statement that the RYA is not teaching digital navigation is not correct, my apologies. After being negative about gps for 25 years, they have finally announced a digital navigation package for 2020. This is really good news, as it will enable them to give training on the navigation devices that most of us use.

Your video is very interesting. I am 70 years old, I have raced competitivly since I was 10 years old, I have sailed extensivly off the Austrailan East Coast waters. I qualified as an Australian Yachtmaster in 1992 with an Offshore instructor rating. I worked as a Sailing instructor teaching basic sailing, basic navigation, offshore navigation, cruising skills, basic racing skills and advanced racing skills up to skippering trainee crews at National level Chanpionships with creditible results for over 20 years. I have held a Commercial Pilots Licence as an Instructor with Instrument qualifications. As well as extensivly navigating my own vessel, I have served as a navigator on several Sydney Hobart races, including 1993, which up until the 1998 race saw the most deaths and sinkings of any race prior to that. I don't sail in offshore races any more. The 1993 race was enought for me. IT was not so much the conditions, it was the attitudes of the typical crew I was sailing with. In the 1992 race and the 1993 race the yachts had recently beeen fitted with the "new" GPS systems. For some reason the owners decided that they should be moved from the NAV station to the Cockpit! In both situations it was stated that they wanted a "working navigator", which I was. Serving as a helmsman and a trimmer, as well as a "Sailmaker" when I was sewing damaged sails together while off watch! (I was working in my brothers sail loft at the time). This attitude made my job increadibly more difficult! The position of navigator has been downgraded in the eyes of many owners, they think that having a GPS in the cocpit will fix all their problems. What BULLSHIT! In the 1992 race the GPS went off air for 10 hours. There was a compulsory position report due, "How do we know where we are?" they asked. Simple, ask the helmsman "what course hacve you been steering?", How long since the last recorded poaition, "What speed have we been doing?", back to DR navigation! I pulled out chart computed the numbers and marked a position. "You don't know we are there!" they said. "You don't know we are not there", I replyed. OIf course the GPS came back and we were a few miles from the estimated position! THe blind faith n the magic box, mounted in the cockpit for "would be" navigators to interpret is dangerous! The role of Navigator is as important as it ever has been. Simply having a GPS in the cockpit does NOT fix the problem of basic navigation. The role of the Navigator and the instruments vital to Navigation belong in the NAV Station. Have a repeater in the cockpit if you want but don't kid yourself that that is NAVIGATION! There is a LOT more to it than that!

More please, on anything sailing, probably the most informative video I have come across.

Well if he sounds like a Captain, acts like a Captain and sails like a Captain HECK HE MUST BE A CAPTAIN! As a retired bush pilot who flew when we still used celestial navigation in the Arctic and found white spots on the map flying across jungle in South America, I can assure what you are saying has been and still is a fact in aviation too. Your videos are of great educational value, thank you CAPTAIN! After parting now from my last aircraft, I look forward to hopefully roam the Meds on a sailboat, sometime soon.

When I decided for a chart plotter, I asked friend sailors, where to put it in the pilot house of my motor cutter: Either on the large chart space right in front of the steering wheel or on another place aside, leaving the entire paper chart space for paper charts. I decided against the recommendation "right in front of the steering wheel, because you don´t need paper charts any longer". I am still happy with my decision. Richard, thank you very much for your sharing your solid know how. Subscribed!

Great video - thank you! I've experienced chart offset sailing in the Bahamas. We eyeballed our way into one harbor and were amused to see our track on the chartplotter showing us crossing about 200 yards inland, behind the town, then into the anchorage. Whenever possible, I try to follow the teachings of my sailing mentor and not trust only one source of information. Best regards from Key West, Capt. Blackheart Charlie "It's not the ocean that's dangerous, it's the hard crusty bits around the edges that cause problems."

Very clear and precise, thank you. I use Navionics as a guide to my destination but never use it blindly :-)

Excellent video. The nearest thing to an Air Crash Investigation episode for boaties. Wish more accident analysis videos existed like this.. super learning material.

Great video. It’s important to learn from other’s failures.

Give wide, wide berths (6+ miles, even 20+ miles where large corral reef expansions are expected) to all obstacles while transiting around them in a long ocean passage. Time your approach and arrival at your destination properly, in daylight and consult weather forecasts for the most opportune conditions and constantly navigate, both by instruments and visually. A day or two longer on passage it’s allot better than having your vessel ripped apart and hung on the rocks ! Do your costal cruising and island hopping during daylight as much as possible, or time the departures and arrivals during daylight and in good weather. If you’re cruising you’ve got to remember that cruising is not racing !

Totally agree. Must have two person control on nav prep and execution. Backup systems a must and old school training is required to validate what is digitally presented. Always update charts with the latest notice to Mariners.

Wow! You seem like a fount of knowledge! Your audio is clear and well timed. Thank you for the two sailing videos 👍👍 there’s a whole bunch of us looking to soak in this kind of wisdom, if you find time to make more 😉🙏 great gratitude, happy sailing 👋👋

This is probably the best video about sea traveling I have ever seen. Here should everybody start before he/she will buy a boat or sail anywhere or step on board. 👍👌

Awesome video!!! Please keep them coming!!!

I always use two different two chart plotter , one I zoom in with it and the second to give an overall pictures.

Well done Sir! One of the best videos on modern navigation I've seen.

Great vids, Richard. Your attention to safety is Sailing 101. Keep well clear of the rocks indeed!

We have used Navionics on Lake Ontario for 5 years now and never had an issue. It takes us where we want to go, every time. In spite of this, we also use paper charts to confirm our routes and position. It never pays to become complacent.

Thank you for an excellent video. Lots of food for thought.

Excellent video, I really appreciate the real life examples and the great experience, which you are sharing. Many thanks!

I am looking at buying my first sail boat in the very near future and looking at a few boats as I write. Its been 30 years since I last sailed and many advances have been made over that time, so one of the most important considerations I was looking at was navigation equipment. Your video has been very helpful and given me much to think about. Thanks its very much , it is most appreciated ..cheers Bryan

Thank you for your vital advice, wil keep you in my heart while sailing.

thanks for posting this

One small terminology correction. There is only one GPS. GPS was the first GNSS (global navigation satellite system) today there are four GNSS and many GNSS receivers can receive signals from multiple systems.

great videos and information. its very interesting to hear about the issues that the professional racers experience.

Great primer. Thank you!

Exceptional advice. Thank you.

Very informative, entertaining and good humoured stuff...Thanks for sharing.

Very well explained, thanks!

Great useful content for the uninitiated that I can hope to one day be able to use. Please continue making videos for tips, procedures and best practices for sailing blue water and otherwise. Cheers.

Wonderful vid. Many thanks. I’m hungry for more. 😄👍

Great video. Important topic. Backup devices, alternative charts, always navigate.

Some great information, thank you!

Very instructive. I hope you'll do many more of these.

Excellent video, thanks

Some good advice, thank you!

Again this is why I subscribed. Your brilliant to learn from because you just say it without complication... Thanks your also very inspiring ppl you an your wife!Fare winds an following sea's✌🏻💗☺️❣️

Great stuff Richard

what great video! thank you very much!! 37yo kiteboater from new zealand 🇳🇿

Amazing. So useful. Thank you.

Thank you, very interesting tips.

Awesome Videos thanks for sharing your experience!!!

That was very helpful. Thanks!

Great video many thanks 😀

Great video Rich, Should be mandatory as part of the RST.

Great video, thank you!

Great videos

Nice vdeo many thanks. Please make more!

Love this content... thank you sir....see you in indonesia

this was really thorough

Great video!!

Marvelous execution; it's reflective of a book I read that was similarly profound. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Various Authors

Good presentation.

Good point about the dimmer.

Wonderful thank you

As you said in the video and I reiterate forcefully PLEASE LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW all the time. Navigation is only one of your possible hazards. Good Video. I have also anchored in the car park of a hotel over a mile away according to the plotter!!!!! David Power

Good job!!

Very useful, thanks....

Good video !

My inexperienced family crew always think I take it to serious, that I check the charts continuously, I let my brother sail to a bay and I knew with the sails on starboard he would not see the rock 2nm from the coast and I knew he would not have the right zoom on the plotter, waited with warning him and taking over just 200 meters from the rock, the shock was big and he was frozen for minutes, he now listens to his younger brother

Thanks a lot.

Thank You.

So pleased to have found this Can't believe in this day and age there are still inaccurate charts. I wouldn't drive my car without Sat Nav And good use for old phones

good one ! thanks1

Love your Attitude !! Thanks for your great Advice !! New Sub #912 CHEERS ;)

Three types of sailors......those that have run aground. Those that are going to run aground and those who lie about when they have run aground.

Great !

Spoke with a new skipper at the marina and he asked me to check hit sailing plan. He had used a way point list and had loaded them into the plotter. I asked him if he really wanted to hit all the buoys or just go around them. It took him a few seconds to realize his mistake. I used the previous track to make my way up the River Medway in a thick fog, with crew on deck looking for obstacles'. We made onto the mooring no bother.

Richard we found navionics quite receptive when we found some error at Pemba island on the charts. We gave them the corrections and 2 weeks later with the updates the charts were corrected. Instead of people complaining about errors why do they not document them and send them in. As you say some charts were surveyed years ago and were digitized correct but in errors that were on the charts

I sailed into Solomons Maryland, after anchor reviewed my track on Navionics and it showed me sailing right through the middle of several marina docks, I had noticed it showing marks off their proper location when coming in. I was also using hand held Garmin, believe it was working correct then,

What material would be best for surviving a reef grounding if weight is important and money is no object? I was thinking carbon fiber construction of most of the vessel with a sacrificial bottom plating of either aluminum or UHMWPE or both.

Wonderful information. What size iPads are you using?

Never blindly, never only one source of infomation. The mistakes and lack precisions exists, and they are waiting for us. 🤔

Great

When yachts first got satnav they didn’t have the military precision they have now, groundings were called “SAG’s, Satellite Assisted Groundings. 😃 stay safe.

Smart man

Hi Richard, have you found other chats that are more accurate than Navionics? What about C-MAP or some of the others. Raymarine just announced that they will soon release Lighthouse Charts for Australia. I use Navionics for my dive trips and are totally dependent on the depth sonar to find locations because even in very popular seaways and Navionics boats 1,000s of daily updates, they are always wrong by at least metres. Also - you didn't mention depth sonar as a navigation point, do you use it sailing? Really good video - thank you for sharing!!!

Do you have a checklist for new crew / visitors on board. Just saw a clip where the captain got shot and the crew did not know how to use the radio. It would be good to have a best practice list of what to explain before you cast off, what can be told underway and what should be practiced. Thanks.

Every modern airliner navigates using GNSS of which GPS is but one constellation. It’s very sophisticated with the use of a readout called ANP (actual navigation performance) that indicate a 95% probability of being within a position often seen at .02. Which means the aircraft’s position is within .02 nm radius (37 metres) of the GNSS position shown. This is at 500 knots. Another algorithm used for integrity monitoring is called RAIM. Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring. Why these technologies haven’t been incorporated into marine applications for smaller craft I’m not sure. I could be mistaken but marine small craft applications and theory are often incorrect and not based on fact but old theories that are redundant.

Thanks Richard an interesting talk on navigation and the vessel the Andruth apologies for spelling I learned to scuba dive on her in the years 71 /72 with the British sub aqua club a short time latter I began a career as I commercial diver and met George Wookey who told me how he sailed to Australia in this vessel and ex commercial diver who was diving from her off Rottnest in deep water using hard hat diving equipment unfortunately the South West wind came in early very strong and during decompression the vessel was heaving up and down violently and his helmet was actually bashing against the hull in the end the deck crew decided to bring him out the water causing him a spine bend stopping his diving carrier his name was Jack ? he carried on working with the company as an engineer and diving supervisor. Keep up you postings there very interesting.

Really good video. So sensible having three devices. I have a silly question. If a hendheld gps were one of the devices would it be accurate in the middle of the Atlantic or middle of the Pacific?

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I'm really interested in getting into sailing, what I'm afraid of is being in a man overboard situation in rough seas since I'd be sailing with my wife and son.

Never go to sea in a glass bottom boat.

Need to used international GPS Systems

I saw Brady Trautman senor Brady .. @svdelos

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Get a paper chart of the area. Simple.

Great video. Thanks