Navigation - educational games???

[22E6441]

Has anyone ever come across a game on a website or anything that teaches you how to navigate your boats? Like how to go around buoys, etc.

There was a fun docking game that someone posted about a couple weeks ago, but a navigational game would be awesome.

 

[ziggy]

Re: Navigation - educational games???

don't know of any games. but bennett trim tabs website used to have a kinda sorta game ya could download. go drive a couple different boats in diffent kinds of weather and play with trim tabs...

Like how to go around buoys, etc.

you should learn that from a boating safety class of some sort. us coast gaurd aux. or us power squadron comes to my mind.. red, right, returning is the basic rule for going around buoys..

 

[22E6441]

Re: Navigation - educational games???

I took a course and have my license (Ontario Pleasure Craft Operators Card).

However, I rarely travel water that actually has buoys. Mostly small lakes and rivers with no markers at all....other than old bleach containers marking rocks.

A game like this would help me remember all this junk and make it second nature. Hopefully there's something like that out there.

 

[rrhodes]

Re: Navigation - educational games???

http://www.shipsim.com/home.php

 

[arks]

Re: Navigation - educational games???

Not navigation exactly, but vessel lighting ID. This one's pretty good. After the initial presentation there's a quiz to identify the vessel each light is on.
Here 'ya go:
http://www.boatsafe.com/flash/reviewlights.html

From the same site, here's a variety of questions from the USCG License Exam: http://www.boatsafe.com/uscgboat/index.htm