Electronic Navigation | Online Course

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Navigate with Confidence!

The Electronic Navigation online course is tailored for modern-day sailors and powerboaters seeking to master navigation using GPS, chart plotters, and other electronic tools. Boaters learn to utilize instruments onboard sailboats effectively, from autopilot adjustments to leveraging newer technologies like AIS and MARPA. With a focus on safety and efficiency, the course covers electronic chart interpretation and navigation in various weather conditions. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned boater, this comprehensive course equips you with essential knowledge and skills for confident navigation using modern technology.

Estimated Time: 5 hours
Price: ~~$29~~ $25 (or FREE with the Bareboat Charter Master Sailboat Bundle, or only $14 with the Bareboat Charter Master Powerboat Bundle)

Enroll in NauticEd's Electronic Navigation online course, an essential sailing and powerboating course for modern-day boaters. Learn how to navigate using GPS, chart plotters, and more! The Electronic Navigation Online Course teaches boaters how to use modern-day navigation electronics.

This Electronic Navigation course is the world's only true interactive course where you learn all the instruments you might have onboard a sailboat. The exercises are designed so that you interact with a simulated GPS chart plotter and get inside the workings to REALLY understand how to maximize the information being presented to you. With ease, you'll implement navigation techniques like setting your autopilot to track a waypoint or tack perfectly on a layline if sailing. You are also introduced to newer technologies like AIS, MARPA, and Weather GRIBs and shown how to effectively use them.

This comprehensive course covers all the necessary skills and knowledge you need to effectively use electronic navigation tools. From understanding GPS and chart plotters to interpreting electronic charts and navigating in different weather conditions, this course will provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to confidently navigate through the waterways using modern electronic tools.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced sailor or powerboater, this course is a must for anyone looking to expand their sailing knowledge and become a confident navigator using modern technology. Enroll now and take the first step toward mastering the art of electronic navigation.

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The Electronic Navigation Online Course includes:

Module 1 emphasizes that electronic navigation is an aid to the good boater’s senses but can not replace them.
Module 2 introduces and brings back some of the basics that you should already be familiar with in regard to navigation.
Module 3 is an in-depth discussion of wind. In particular, it delves into the calculation of true wind and shows how important true wind direction is when navigating.
Module 4 is all about boat speed. How to navigate using optimum speeds and how to find your best course to achieve your destination in the fastest time. We define velocity made good on course and velocity made good upwind.
Module 5 prepares you for the shotgun of jargon that will be delivered in Module 7.
Module 6 introduces technologies such as AIS, RADAR, Weather GRIBS, and electronic chart overlays.
Module 7 is a step-by-step walkthrough of a real GPS chart plotter unit. You’ll gain the confidence, working knowledge, and user experience, through various animations, to fully work a chart plotter device and apply this to your sailing navigation.
Module 8 will round everything out so that you’re confident in your ability to navigate using electronic instruments.

This is an essential safety and knowledge course that will also make you look good when operating electronic equipment around others. This course also comes in a downloadable PDF format which you can access for free after your investment.

Today's Investment: ~~$29~~ Price: $25 ((or FREE with the Bareboat Charter Master Sailboat Bundle, or only $14 with the Bareboat Charter Master Powerboat Bundle)

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Electronic Navigation information

If you're going bareboat chartering, or local or long-distance cruising, you should really be investing in this Electronic Navigation course, and for the price, who can argue with that? It's a well put together course, and you're going to like the interactive components. Get it now by clicking on the Register Button above or below. OR get this valuable course free with the Bareboat Charter Master Bundle or courses!

Instructor Grant Headifen
By Grant Headifen
NauticEd Global Director of Education

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Student Reviews

Joseph C.

2025, 30 Jun. 17:25

Good information and very detailed

Chris R.

2025, 18 Mar. 20:44

Nicely done, really helped my understand the electronics much better

Allen F.

2025, 01 Mar. 06:29

loved the animations !

Albert T.

2025, 12 Feb. 18:26

Wasn't aware of how "electronics" dependent I was until I had to do it myself

Jim F.

2025, 21 Jan. 20:15

good explanations of how electronic navigation operates.

James S.

2025, 12 Jan. 16:05

excellent review of all aspects of navigation, radar, AIS, and the plotter. Great confidence builder.

Jacques C.

2025, 05 Jan. 14:22

Learn about Polar Plot and Layline. It was new to me.

Brandon B.

2024, 30 Dec. 23:58

Very informative and a bit tough...

Gaetan L.

2024, 29 Dec. 23:04

Nice animation on GPS Menu navigation example

Bryce T.

2024, 29 Dec. 08:33

This is solid education on chart plotters - no unnecessary fluff around navigation basics, this course assumes you've already got that down. There's a portion of the course and exam on Polars, which feels like it belongs in a racing course as it has nothing to do with the chart plotter, but it's not bad information to have; just superfluous.

Sean W.

2024, 01 Dec. 18:25

Lots of detail on the physics of sailing, terminology and the art of placing a sailboat exactly where you set to put it.

Scott H.

2024, 09 Oct. 17:59

Excellent class, lots of valuable info

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This GPS interactive animation will show you that you can easily view the tide for your area.

Click on the image then follow the red square touch points to run the animation. Module 7 has 20 such animations to help you get into the workings and really understand such a device. By the time you complete this Module alone, you'll have full confidence in operating a GPS chart plotter with multiple sensors networked in.

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Sea talk testimonials

I've been sailing for the past 45 years and now live in the caribbean. Every day I get free entertainment watching all the charter boats make basic/amateur and sometimes dangerous mistakes. If every charterer would take the NauticEd classes I would have to find another source of entertainment. Seriously however, thanks to NauticEd for educating sailors, it makes all our lives so much safer and easier.

Guenter H, Licensed Captain