Navigation Quiz 3
1. What's the best way to check your compass accuracy?
  • Take a bearing on the sun
  • Compare to GPS course
  • Run a course between two known headlands
2. When navigating toward a narrow gap in shallow tropical water, what's the most useful technique?
  • Watching the water color
  • Keeping GPS cross track zero
  • Following a transit
3. When navigating in cold high latitude waters what's the best way to spot hidden rocks?
  • Watch the water color
  • Look for kelp patches
  • Look for disturbances on the water surface
4. When making a night landfall, what's the most reliable indication that you have a clear path forward?
  • Radar
  • GPS position
  • Navigation bouys
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In venturing in sail upon strange coasts we are seeking those first experiences and trying to feel as felt the earlier man in a happier time, to see the world as they saw it.

Belloc