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Compass error — Navigation A — Coastal, Mashit 30

The true bearing from the chart against the compass reading. 12 questions need it — 12 sub-questions in all.

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Fixes and compass error

  1. Question 16 — At 13:30 the light at the end of the Hadera coal jetty and the light at the end of the western breakwater of Hadera harb (part a)
  2. Question 26 — At 17:30 two buoys in Haifa Bay, with the characteristics Fl(2)8s and Mo(A) "HAIFA 1", were in transit. A compass bearin (part a)
  3. Question 28 — At 21:30 a compass transit bearing was taken between two buoys in Haifa Bay with the following characteristics: Mo(A) "H (part a)
  4. Question 30 — At 19:15 the north and west cardinal buoys at FROGS ISLAND were in transit. A compass bearing of them was 039°. At the s (part a)
  5. Question 37 — At 07:40 Haifa University (charted as University Tower) and the light vessel with the characteristics Fl.G.3s were in tr (part b)
  6. Question 38 — At 20:00 the light vessel NOA and the buoy with the characteristics Fl(5)Y.15s were in transit. Their compass bearing wa (part a)
  7. Question 39 — At 17:12 the light at the western end of the Coal Jetty at Hadera and the buoy south-west of the jetty, Fl(3).W.23s, wer (part a)
  8. Question 41 — At 05:00 the vessel's position by GPS was 32°34'N 034°48'E. A compass bearing of the water tower at Caesarea was 125°. F (part a)
  9. Question 46 — At 21:00 the vessel's position was 32°05'N 034°31.5'E. A compass bearing of Jaffa light was 095°. From the 21:00 positio (part a)
  10. Question 47 — At 20:00 the west and south cardinal buoys marking the fish farm off Ashdod were in transit. Their compass bearing was 1 (part b)
  11. Question 55 — At 16:00 your vessel is south of the YONATHAN ISLAND lighthouse, at a range of 5 miles from it. From this position a bea (part a)
  12. Question 72 — At 06:00 the vessel's position by GPS was 32°47.3'N 034°52.9'E. A compass bearing of the light vessel NOA was 111°. From (part a)

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