Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan the course.
- Obtain and interpret waterway charts appropriate for the area of navigation.
- Determine expected wind, tidal, or current conditions for the intended course.
- Identify navigational hazards, position of landmarks and any buoyage to assist in planning and navigating the course.
- Utilise all information to plan an efficient course according to specific activity and waterway requirements.
- Identify and plot critical points along the course, midpoint and end destinations.
- Prepare a navigation data sheet, and identify emergency or contingency escape routes.
- Navigate waterway courses.
- Select instrumentation and equipment suitable for navigation requirements.
- Follow the planned course using charts, natural and constructed features and any buoyage to assist.
- Use instrumentation and equipment as navigational aids to maintain course.
- Make required adjustments to course according to prevailing environmental conditions.
- Comply with waterway rules throughout all activities, including use of craft within permitted areas.
- Fix position of craft.
- Fix position of craft at regular intervals to maintain planned course.
- Use techniques to estimate distance travelled, accounting for prevailing environmental conditions.
- Utilise navigation techniques to identify unfamiliar features and fix position when lost.
- Adjust and resume planned course where position indicates a deviation.
- Obtain and interpret waterway charts appropriate for the area of navigation.
- Determine expected wind, tidal, or current conditions for the intended course.
- Identify navigational hazards, position of landmarks and any buoyage to assist in planning and navigating the course.
- Utilise all information to plan an efficient course according to specific activity and waterway requirements.
- Identify and plot critical points along the course, midpoint and end destinations.
- Prepare a navigation data sheet, and identify emergency or contingency escape routes.