Navigation basics

Navigation basics articles and guides.

Navigation basics guides

Explore practical TwoBoat guides about navigation basics. These articles help sailors, charter guests, skippers and marine teams make better decisions before, during and after a trip.

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How to Read a Nautical Chart: Complete Interactive Guide for Sailors

Learn how to read a nautical chart step by step: scale, latitude and longitude, depths, chart datum, contours, rocks, wrecks, buoys, lights, compass rose, magnetic variation and route planning. Includes an interactive training chart, symbol decoder, depth and distance tools, coordinate exercises, checklist and quiz.

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Sailing at Night – Complete Guide

Advanced night-sailing training for experienced skippers. Learn to identify vessel aspect and movement from navigation lights, interpret lighthouse characteristics, distinguish anchored and underway vessels, manage degraded visual perception, and make safer collision-avoidance decisions after dark.

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Docking a Boat in Wind – Complete Interactive Simulator & Skipper Guide

Interactive boat-docking guide for skippers. Practise marina approaches in crosswind, headwind and following wind, understand momentum, rudder authority, prop walk, bow thrusters and spring lines, train Mediterranean stern-to berthing, crew line order and abort decisions, and use a top-down docking simulator before practising on a real vessel.

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AIS Explained – Automatic Identification System for Sailors

Learn how marine AIS works, what Class A and Class B mean, how to read AIS targets, MMSI, COG, SOG, CPA and TCPA, and how AIS supports collision avoidance. Includes an interactive CPA simulator, departure checklist and AIS knowledge quiz.

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