I have been studying and preparing to test for my first class pilotage and was looking for any help or thoughts that have helped people. Specifically in regards to measuring distance and plotting positions accurately. As you don’t have the distance charts or all points of latitude to accurately gau…

That sounds overly complicated to me. I memorize courses and distances over the route. You need to know that along with significant depths. The starting point will typically be a sea bouy and the end at a dock. You need to know the starting and ending points. I draw the track line along the route …

I didn’t say or think it was best way but it was the starting pt there’s 44 and 6 sets of ranges. Then there’s over a dozen obstructions 2 anchorage areas and 4 spoil areas. So I was trying to learn people’s best methods

That sounds like a fairly difficult chart sketch. I suggest that you try a shorter and simpler one first. Do the difficult ones after you’ve gained some practice on the easier ones.

[Pilotage-Knowledge] To build a chart, you need to know by heart the; • Courses axis • Courses length between junctions • Width of the channel and curves • Distances ahead from junctions to leading lights, shore line • Navigation aids positions and characteristics • Conspic shore line distan…

That doesn’t seem like the best approach to me. If I had to recreate any map, chart or diagram, say for the layout of my house lot, the buildings, driveway, garden etc or the layout of my living room I would not draw a grid and convert to x/y and then memorize the coordinates. It’s far too much m…

Aside from the bearing and range (mm) technique for ATON, I make 3 or 4 copies of the chartlet. One I make for just the soundings. Every two inches for the area that I draw. I can memorize numbers in a tabular form pretty well, so I do the soundings in groups of 4 or 5. The other copies I use to…

I’ve always heard that State Pilotage Board exams are orders of magnitude more difficult than the USCG exams.

I can say that after learning thousands of numbers, procedures and regulations by heart, you’re getting anesthetized … Never study that much of all my seaman’s life! No joke … :face_with_monocle: You build a chart from known official courses, their intersections and/or from a wheel over point, by …

This is the method I prefer and want to do as it comes more natural to me. I guess I just didn’t know where to begin with this test and was lost or felt a lil overwhelmed at first. I’d like to know More about the mica paper and micro point pens becuz I am standing watch driving 12 hrs a day and I t…

I trace the charts on tracing paper then have a blueprint shop make photo copies of my tracing on good paper. I’ve heard of a company that prints and sells chart outlines on chart paper specifically for pilotage exam practice. I cannot recall the name of the company.

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