Introduction to Passage Planning

Passage planning is requirement for all skippers and is also known as Voyage Planning. This covers everything from leaving the dock, en-route and entering your destination as well as covering any refuge ports along the way. So think of your passage plan as “Berth to Berth”
There are obligations under international law for a vessel’s skipper/captain to compile a passage/voyage plan - how much detail you put into it depends very much on you!
Our 45 minute FREE online training session aims to give you an Introduction or Revision to the following session content:
Requirements of passage planning,
4 Stages of passage planning (APEM - Appraise, Plan, Execute and Monitor)
What makes a good passage plan
Sources of information for passage planning

[@arkadybron1994]

This has been one of the most accessible, comprehensible and digestible videos on this subject I have seen. Thank you so much.

[@CompassSeaSchool]

You're very welcome!

[@SCARTHYBOY692]

Ace video.
Just a question, for advanced Powerboat exam passage plans would I need to include course to steer? As all the videos I’ve seen just seem to put the magnetic course in and that’s it and have an awareness of the tides not actually putting them into the passage plan.

[@rexorjohndizon8943]

Why is Passage Planning Berth to Berth?

[@waltermcdonald7371]

on 6 should we keep Wolves buoy (and the rocks) be to port?

[@CompassSeaSchool]

Walter = no as we are travelling north the wolves buoy is off to our starboard side so that we can head up towards the end of the Wrach channel. Take a look on something like navionics for more details. Thanks for watching

[@waltermcdonald7371]

Thanks - Found it - I was imagining heading 335 and using a north cardinal as the waypoint all things being equal keeping the north cardinal to port ...but I see where we are going now on the chart :)