MIKCo FUNDAMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL SKILLS CHECKLIST
Weather
- Wind direction
- Warm & cold fronts
- Wind speed and warnings
- Thunderstorms
- Fog
Wind & Waves
- Reflecting & Refracting
- Height, Length and Period (Speed)
Charts
- NOAA #1
- Symbols and depths
- Lights and buoys
- True and magnetic north
- Chart preparation
Compass
- Orient the chart
- Take a bearing
- Take a heading from a chart (using compass as a protractor)
Communications
- VHF
- Cell phone
Signals
- Whistle
- Voice
- Flares
- Dyes
- Flags
- Horns
Coast Guard Requirements
Day and night
Navigation: “The secret to not getting lost…”
- Piloting
- Dead reckoning
- Course, heading, bearing
- 1 degree of error is ~ 100’ in a mile