Links to Navigation Education Videos, Pacific and SFBay Weather, Tides-Currents:
SF Bay Area Weather, NOAA Tides and Currents, Marine Forecasts:
SFBOFS – San Francisco Bay Entrance Currents Animation Model: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/ofs_mapplots.html?ofsregion=sfb&subdomain=en&model_type=currents_nowcast
NOAA Tides and Currents: SF Bay stations map:
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/gmap3/
NOAA Ports – SF Bay Bouys, Marine Weather, etc.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports/index.html?port=sf
Pacific Ocean Weather, Pacific Briefing Package, NOAA etc:
Pacific Briefing Package: Low-Tech, Black and White
https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/P_brief.php
OPC – Ocean Prediction Center, Eastern Pacific Ocean Analysis, COLOR, multi-day loops:
https://ocean.weather.gov/Pac_tab.php
NOAA – CPC – NAVTEX Marine Forecast – SF:
https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDOFFN08.php
NowCoast – NOAA Web Mapping portal to real-time observations, forecasts, warnings:
https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
NOAA Storm Prediction Center – SPC:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/
Navigation Instruction Videos:
1. Dead Reckoning: Navigation – Dead Reckoning (White Board Part 1)
2. Navigation Tools: Triangles Navigation – Plotting with Triangles
3. Compass Error: Deviation, Variation and TVMDC: Navigation – Compass Error
4. Variation and Deviation: Navigation – Course Steering True to Compass
5. Time in Navigation: Navigation – How To Add or Subtract Time
6. DR, Set and Drift, CMG: Navigation – Chart Navigation (Chart Plotting Part 1)
7. Finding Position with Lat-Lon: Navigation – Finding Position using Latitude and Longitude
8. Distance: How far did we go? Navigation – Finding Distances
9. Tides: anywhere and anytime Navigation – Tides Problem Explained
10. Currents: Navigation – Currents Problem
11. CTS: Course to Steer: Navigation – Course To Steer (Chart Plotting Part 2)
12. CMG and SMG: Navigation – Course Made Good and Speed Made Good (White Board Part 3)
13. Relative Bearing: Navigation – Relative Bearing
14. Running Fix: Navigation – Running Fix
15. Running Fixes in Australia w/One LOP: AusNav #9 How to plot a Running Fix – Tutorial
16. Fixing Position with Cross-Bearings: 3 LOP: Navigation – Crossbearing Fixes
17. Chart Plotting by Tom Trusi: Navigation Preparations for an Advanced Coastal Cruise
18. Electronic Navigation Basics by Tom Tursi: Electronic Navigation Basics, Feb 2022
19. Triangle Plotting on Paper Charts by Tom Tursi: Protractor Triangle for Paper Chart Plotting
20. Compass Correction, TVMDC: compass correction
21. Danger Bearings: Ep 17: Navigation: Danger Bearings