End of the week

After a week teaching powerboat navigation it is time to escape so heading out into the Castle Grounds in Stornoway for a blast on the mountain bike before catching the late flight to Glasgow.

Navigation in boats is quite tough to teach because for many people the mathematical skills needed they last used when they were a school and probably hated every moment of it now suddenly they are told you have to pass this course and use all those skills it is a bit of a mind melter. Hopefully by the end of this course and the two practical ones to follow the tough maths will become relevant.

Still to the more important matter of blast on the mountain bike …

Navigation

Teaching navigation to a powerboat driver; fish farmers are generally good drivers but the paper based navigation is a class room environment and that is hard in most cases. Today estimated positions (EP) and using tidal curves, tommorow we are on to course to steer (CTS)