ASA 105, Coastal Navigation | Modern Sailing

ASA 105, Coastal Navigation

6 Evenings, Tues / Weds / Thurs (6:30 - 9:30pm)

The ASA 105, Coastal Navigation workshop offers advanced chart navigation instruction and prepares students to successfully complete the certification exam. With an experienced USCG captain as your instructor, learn and practice chart reading, tidal current determination, dead reckoning, position fixes, running fixes, danger bearings, set and drift calculations, and more.

This course has no prerequisites! This means no matter where you are in your sailing education, you can gain the skills to become a competent navigator.

Your ASA Coastal Navigation Study Guide, which includes a textbook with chapter quizzes and a practice chart, are included with the purchase of your course and will be mailed to you. If you wish to pick up your study materials in person or sign up less than a week from the first day of your course, please contact our office. Hands-on classroom instruction with your ASA certified instructor is intended to supplement the text rather than replace it. Advance study with your textbook and chart practice will enhance your success in this course. 

The course is 6 evenings in duration, 3 evenings per week for 2 weeks. You will receive five evenings of classroom lecture and practice with testing on the sixth evening. Please bring your navigation tools: divider, parallel or sliding rulers, white eraser, and magnifying glass or reading glasses.

There are three ways to sign up for this course - by phone (415) 331-8250, email, or by clicking the link below.

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Cost for Members: 
$560
Cost for Non Members: 
$750
Prerequisites: 
None

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  • Andrew Goble, San Francisco

    It has been wonderful sailing with MSC over the years. Please extend my thanks to the owners, management, and staff for unrequited professionalism and high standards in a charter fleet. I have sailed with several in my years and none nearly hold a candle to the quality of business and staff at Modern Sailing.

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    I try to get out on the water every week: out the Gate, around Angel, up Raccoon - I love it all. After 18 years as a member of OCSC in Berkeley, I learned to sail the bigger boats at Modern by taking ASA 103 and 104. My ASA 104 instructor Dave Russell was terrific. Also, Captain Bill Moreland has been very generous in giving informal advice whenever I’ve asked him. Thanks to Bill, I no longer have any anxiety about docking!

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  • Trudy Flores

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Sausalito Location
2310 Marinship Way, Sausalito
(415) 331-8250
(800) 995-1668

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