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Navigation & Weather

Finding your way and reading the sky — charts and compass, the sextant and GPS, dead reckoning, tides and currents, and the Beaufort scale.

Navigation

Navigation

Nautical chart

Nautical chart

Compass

Compass

Sextant

Sextant

Dead reckoning

Dead reckoning

GPS

GPS

Beaufort scale

Beaufort scale

Tide

Tide

Ocean current

Ocean current

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Buoy

Buoy

Wind

Wind

Trade winds

Trade winds

Sea state

Sea state