Navigation Online Study Options for Winter 2026
May 24, 2025 · 9 min · 881 views
What this video covers
Maryland School of Sailing and Seamanship offers two online navigation courses for winter 2026: coastal navigation (ASA 105) and celestial navigation (ASA 107), each structured as five half-day Saturday sessions from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time.2:15 Coastal navigation runs January–February; celestial navigation runs February–March.1:30 Both courses are taught by Captain Tom Terci, who authored the primary textbooks for each.2:47 Each course includes a full-length online classroom option and a home-study package; both formats include books and the respective ASA certification exam, which students take open-book at home.3:59 The coastal navigation package includes the textbook *Coastal Navigation and Piloting*, a solutions manual covering 200 practice questions, two DVD discs with step-by-step solutions to 16 key problems, training chart 1210TR, and NOAA Chart No.3:02 1. The celestial navigation package includes *Celestial Navigation for Sailors*, a solutions manual, a Starfinder circular slide rule, and 30-by-40-inch plotting sheets.5:29 Lecture recordings from actual class sessions are available for private viewing on YouTube.4:10 Students who believe they already have sufficient knowledge can sit for either ASA exam as a standalone challenge exam without enrolling in a course.7:31 Registration and book orders are handled through mdschool.com.8:16
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