Winter Seminars at Wayzata Yacht Club are a great time to catch up and have a fun night out. Pizza and drinks precede the seminars, so show up early to keep your story telling skills sharp over the long winter months.
Instructor: Craiggae Smith
Date: February 23, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Wayzata Yacht Club
Experience Level: This seminar is geared toward everyone. Cost: $18 Online, or $20 at the Door (Includes happy hour with pizza and beer)
Three semesters of Celestial Nav plus a little Navigation Charting distilled to two hours. This will be a very high-level introduction with lots of pictures, minimal mathematics. Understand how spherical trigonometry works then step outside, weather permitting, and “shoot” Aldebaran (Taurus), Sirius (Canus Major), and Pollux (Gemini). Early arrivals might get a shot of Venus before it sets.
Ideally, celestial navigators have 4 things: Sextant, Ephemeris (like the Nautical Almanac), Chronometer, and some Sight-Reduction method (I’ll mention 5).
Fortunately, there’s a Free App for iPods, iPhones and iPads that does all of the above. You are encouraged to bring your device, after downloading AstroNav Lite by Sascha Troscheit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/astronav-lite/id440513517?mt=8
CN 101
Instructor: Steve Truax and Tom Brown Date: March 29, 2012 Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Location: Wayzata Yacht Club Experience Level: This seminar is geared toward all WYC sailors. Cost: $18 Online, or $20 at the Door (Includes happy hour with pizza and beer)
Good Intuition is 80% observation, 15% knowledge and 5% instinct.
Observations - the primary feed for the situational evaluation Knowledge - the impact of the observations and exposes choices, Instinct - applied when a clear choice is not immediately available or a negative choice needs to be avoided.
Observations - the primary feed for the situational evaluation
Knowledge - the impact of the observations and exposes choices,
Instinct - applied when a clear choice is not immediately available or a negative choice needs to be avoided.
Steve and Tom discuss how to balance a "point in time reference" with the background required to recognize the implications of that single slice of time.
Rules 201
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