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Worksheet 863 · Skill 4

Two-bearing fix

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  1. At 1240 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Gannet Rock daybeacon bears 056°M and Westfield church spire bears 301°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Mill stack to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Mill stack: ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  2. At 1230 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Mill stack bears 177°M and Westfield church spire bears 289°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Green can "3" to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Green can "3": ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  3. At 1415 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Gannet Rock daybeacon bears 126°M and Heron Point Light bears 224°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Green can "3" to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Green can "3": ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  4. At 0955 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Heron Point Light bears 250°M and Kittle water tank bears 169°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Gannet Rock daybeacon to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Gannet Rock daybeacon: ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  5. At 1300 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Heron Point Light bears 250°M and Kittle water tank bears 147°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Tern Island tower to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Tern Island tower: ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  6. At 1600 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Westfield church spire bears 277°M and Kittle water tank bears 156°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Tern Island tower to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Tern Island tower: ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  7. At 0945 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Heron Point Light bears 194°M and Gannet Rock daybeacon bears 128°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Westfield church spire to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Westfield church spire: ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

  8. At 1705 you take two bearings with a hand-bearing compass: Heron Point Light bears 251°M and Mill stack bears 163°M.

    Variation is 7°W (from the rose); a hand-bearing compass held away from the boat's steel is taken to have no deviation. Convert to true, plot the two lines of position, and give the fix as the true bearing FROM Red nun "2" to the fix, and the distance.

    Tolerance: 2° and 0.15 nm (or 4 % of the distance).

    Bearing from Red nun "2": ________ °T   Distance: ________ nm  

Practice Sheet No. 1

Practice Sheet No. 1 with the starting fixes of this worksheet 34 41 22 38 29 18 27 44 12 21 19 N VAR 7°W (invented) Heron Sound Heron Point Tern Island Westfield Kittle Gannet Rock Fl W 4s 52ft 14M TR TANK SPIRE STACK Dbn 1 2 3 HS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Border scale: nautical miles (1 nm = 10 ticks) PRACTICE SHEET No. 1 · HERON SOUNDInvented for practice · NOT FOR NAVIGATION · Plotroom

Answer key

No.AnswersProblem
1Bearing from Mill stack: 039 °T
Distance: 2.51 nm
No. 863001 (worked solution)
2Bearing from Green can "3": 238 °T
Distance: 0.97 nm
No. 863002 (worked solution)
3Bearing from Green can "3": 339 °T
Distance: 1.42 nm
No. 863003 (worked solution)
4Bearing from Gannet Rock daybeacon: 356 °T
Distance: 1.62 nm
No. 863004 (worked solution)
5Bearing from Tern Island tower: 179 °T
Distance: 1.73 nm
No. 863005 (worked solution)
6Bearing from Tern Island tower: 153 °T
Distance: 1.23 nm
No. 863006 (worked solution)
7Bearing from Westfield church spire: 046 °T
Distance: 3.62 nm
No. 863007 (worked solution)
8Bearing from Red nun "2": 184 °T
Distance: 0.86 nm
No. 863008 (worked solution)