You will need a chart of southern california which includes the above
mentioned ports.
All Courses and bearings are magnetic.
You leave Dana Point harbor entrance on Saturday at 0600 on course 230
degrees, speed 4 knots. You sail this course close hauled until 0800,
at which time you come about to course 320 degrees, speed remains the
same. Still close hauled.
At 1100 you plot your DR position and take the following bearings for
a fixed postiton determination:
Newport Pier - 30 degrees
Huntington Beach generating station stacks - 330 degrees.
Q#1. What is the direction of the wind at our first tack?
Q#2. What is your 1100 DR position in terms of latitude/longitude?
Q#3. There is a lighted buoy nearby at 1100. What are it's
characteristics?
After fixing your position at 1100, you return to course 230 degrees,
there has been a welcome increase in wind and your speed has increased
to 6 knots. You maintain this course and speed across the channel to
Catalina.
At 1400 you fix your position using the following landmarks.
East End of Catalina - 170 degrees.
Arrow Point, Catalina - 270 degrees.
Q#4. At what times should you be entering and leaving the shipping
lanes?
Q#5. Waht has been the set and drift of the "current" during your
channel crossing?
Q#6. What will be your course and ETA to White Cove at 6 knots speed?
The following afternoon you sadly depart Catalina for home. You leave
Goat harbor at 1500 bound straight for Dana Harbor Entrance on a broad
reach: speed 6 knots.
Q#7. What would be your course and ETA to Dana Point Harbor at that
speed?
At 2000 you sight a 2.5 second red flashing light and a few minutes
later, a 4 second Green flashing light off your port bow at 60 degrees
(magnetic). Your GPS indicates the Harbor entrance is 70 degrees.
Q#8. What couse should you steer to the harbor entrance?
Thank you and hope you had fun. |
