Chartwork Tutorial: Course To Steer

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In this video, we take a look at how to calculate course to steer on a nautical chart.
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[@snow8581]

Excellent description! Clear and concise explanation of how to stay on a true course.

[@davidwhite6440]

Great tutorial, however I was taught, and I thought it was convention, that the ground track was indicated by 2 arrows ( 2 feet on the ground ) and the water track by one arrow.

[@kenlee-97]

Bur 1 arrow can also mean the d.r. position, and 2 arrows signify the water track or e.p. (estimated position).

[@davidwhite6440]

@@kenlee-97 See his other videos where he follows convention.

[@johnstarkie9948]

@@kenlee-97 Never in my experience.

[@johnstarkie9948]

That’s what I was taught, and that’s what I teach.

[@lindsayfitch7605]

Your videos are really helpful and clear! They are helping me with my US Sailing coastal navigation class. Thank you!

[@TerraQuaticaONG]

Thanks!, nice video, but ground tracks (Course over ground or course made good - however you call it) is denoted with 2 arrows. Instead, water tracks ( Course to Steer or Heading) shall be denoted with 1 arrow. If your helmsman follows that plot, eventually would end east off your intended destination.

[@olisimmons2785]

Agreed; "2 Feet on the Ground" means 2 for Ground track. > = CTS >> =Ground Track >>> = Tidal vector.

[@olisimmons2785]

Great use of animations along a simple to understand explanation! Thank you.

[@eljefe1153]

You got always on the point. So much fun to learn. Thanks.

[@icetea1455]

more chartworks pls this series is very informative :)

[@eriku785]

Thank you for the easy to follow instruction.

[@matthewglazer]

Great videos, keep them coming!

[@lawrenceklaas3966]

Excellent, simple presentation. With one exception. Are you using proper terms? Tide is the vertical movement of water. Current is the horizontal movement of water. Given how often those terms are used in error, I completely understand how that crept into your otherwise superb presentation.

[@josephlai9759]

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

[@kunalmahajan7178]

Yes, please do make video on tide App.. & doesn't water track indicated by 1 arrow & ground track by 2!! ?

[@craigbrown9574]

Fantastic. Keep making videos

[@bboydeezy2222]

Very nice explanation

[@pkb2005]

I got here from sextant tutorials... Got hooked up to such clear explanations.. very interesting and educative short videos... Great work 👍🏼

[@CasualNavigationAcademy]

Thanks!

[@uasupply]

useful, thanks!👍

[@user-pi2fj6xs6q]

Wow, just awesome

[@michaellinehan710]

Love the chartwork videos, wish I had these as a cadet! After we're done with tides, what about a video on tidal theory and the tide diamonds/tidal graphs to work out HoT?

[@michaellinehan710]

Lmao just got to your part about tides after commenting too early...

[@skilledsailor]

I'm a great fan of your work

[@CasualNavigationAcademy]

Thanks

[@virajrajitha5798]

Thankyou nice video... please can you elaborate finally which course and speed shoud mentioned along the path... ( if im correct it is speed over ground and original bearing or something else )

[@goaro2007]

Why the convention. (one arrow three arrows how it come to this), for the arrows?

[@hollandcollegemarinecentre9737]

@CasualNavigationAcademy great video but this contradicts your video on "working with set and drift on a nautical chart". It should be two arrows for course over ground, one arrow for course to steer!

[@JG-yx1to]

Hi. Could you please explain to me the difference between your course to steer video and set and drift video. I got confused with the tracks and the arrows. Thx

[@KingstoneS318]

Love your videos and very clear explanations, just one thing l cant seem to know why if you can enlighten me pls, when a tide is always involved in a true course, as well as the magnetic variation which we should steer to, however in short distances can we just hold the tiller or the wheel on the course to steer, rather than claculate the tides? If we hold steady we should be on course no matter what the tide is doing... theoreticlly can we? Physically maybe not ideal too tiring etc... thank you

[@kenlee-97]

Like an aircraft does to line up to a runway on approach to land?

[@johnanderson-xo6pt]

Your explanations are so easy to follow, I love them. However I believe that at 3 min 55 sec you say that after 1 hr you will be at the end of your construction triangle. Just to make sure I completely understand this I don't think you will, as you SOG will have been 7.2 kts so you will be 0.8 N.M. short?

[@luamanshah6185]

Sir how to create route and what aid is dangerous in route , I mean that can we draw route on submarine cable

[@NexGaming311]

Great sir but i didn't not understand why are you Put singal arrow for Ground track because group track two arrow and WT is a Single Track.

[@rohitcharles007]

Can you please send the basic concept of the charts and plotting.

[@Zanelli96]

what happend if the speed its bigger than your 2 waypoint?

[@SarmientoRay]

What does the arrows in the set of tide means? Thanks

[@sarahlong5886]

Three arrows just differentiates it from the water track (one arrow, it's the only error in the video) and the ground track (two arrows), nothing more complex than that. You can remember it by the ground track needing two feet on the ground, and the tide track is the most complicated so it gets three. Then only the water track is left, so gets one arrow.

[@TheTraderzz]

i guess the arrows are wrong for corse to steer we put single arrow on the line and for Course over ground we put 2 arrows

[@-BKR-]

why have you illustrated the water and ground track the wrong way round

[@tonyvokes935]

You've got your arrows wrong - 2 arrows for over the ground,1 arrow for course to steer and your tide only lasts for half the distance!