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Celestial Navigation Training

Sailcasted prepares you for celestial navigation exams across all major maritime certifications. Receive realistic daily observations, reduce them with your tables, submit your fix — and progress.

By Certification

Transport Canada
Transport Canada requires celestial navigation competency for Watchkeeping Mate and Master certificates under the Marine...
HO 249 · Canada
RYA Yachtmaster
The RYA Yachtmaster Ocean certificate requires candidates to demonstrate celestial navigation skills including sight red...
AP 3270 · United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand
STCW
The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) requires officers to demons...
HO 229 · International (IMO)
USCG
The US Coast Guard requires celestial navigation competency for Mate and Master licenses on ocean routes (above 200 gros...
HO 229 · United States
FFVoile / Marine marchande
French maritime certifications (Capitaine 200, 500, and 3000) administered by the Direction des Affaires Maritimes requi...
Tables SHOM · France

By Ocean

Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the classic training ground for celestial navigation. From the trade wind routes of Columbus to th...
21 passages available
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean presents the ultimate challenge for celestial navigators. Vast distances between landfalls demand prec...
21 passages available
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean offers unique celestial navigation challenges with monsoon seasons, equatorial crossings, and southern...
21 passages available

Available Passages

Halifax → Bermuda
Seven days from the NSYS dock to St. George's Harbour. Southwesterlies leaving Halifax, a squall on...
7 days · Tier 1–2 · Free
Carolinas → Bahamas
From the Outer Banks of the Carolinas to the first Bahamian cays. Seven days navigating the treacher...
7 days · Tier 1–2
Europe → Azores
From Lisbon or La Coruña to Faial, with Radio Manuel on channel 16. Ten days in the Atlantic depress...
10 days · Tier 1–2
Classic Atlantic East → West
From the Canaries to Bermuda via the Azores — the classic Atlantic crossing. Twenty-eight days, thre...
28 days · Tier 1–3
Hawaii → California
From Hilo or Honolulu to San Francisco Bay along the Pacific High. Fourteen days with steady trade w...
14 days · Tier 2–2
Viking Route — Bergen → Newfoundland
Bergen, the Faroes, Iceland, Davis Strait, St. John's. Twenty-one days at high northern latitudes —...
21 days · Tier 2–3
Canaries → Caribbean (ARC route)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to St. Lucia — the route sailed every November by the Atlantic Rally for...
21 days · Tier 2–3
Pacific Asia → Hawaii
From Japan or China to Honolulu via the northern great circle. Twenty-one days on one of the world's...
21 days · Tier 2–3
South Atlantic — Brazil → Cape Verde
From Salvador de Bahia to the Cape Verde archipelago. Twenty-one days in the Southern Hemisphere the...
21 days · Tier 2–3
Indian Ocean — Réunion → Australia
From La Réunion to Fremantle beneath the Roaring Forties. Eighteen days in the South Indian Ocean —...
18 days · Tier 2–3
South Pacific — NZ → French Polynesia
From Bay of Islands in New Zealand to Bora-Bora or Papeete. Fourteen days on the tropical South Paci...
14 days · Tier 2–3
Cape Town → Brazil
From Table Bay to Salvador de Bahia — the westward South Atlantic crossing. Twenty-one days against...
21 days · Tier 2–3
Australia → New Zealand (Tasman)
From Sydney or Fremantle to Auckland — the Tasman Sea crossing. Ten days in often-changing condition...
10 days · Tier 2–2
Madagascar → Réunion
From Nosy Be or Tulear to Saint-Denis, Réunion — seven days across the Mozambique Channel. The entry...
7 days · Tier 1–2
Ushuaia → Cape Town (high latitude)
From Ushuaia to Cape Town via the high southern latitudes — twenty-eight days in the Roaring Forties...
28 days · Tier 3–4
Polynesia → Hawaii (return north)
From Papeete to Honolulu — the reverse equatorial crossing. Eighteen days as the Southern Cross disa...
18 days · Tier 2–3
Hawaii → Marquesas ✦
From Hilo to Nuku Hiva — an equatorial crossing. Eighteen days as Polaris descends below the horizon...
18 days · Tier 2–3
Canaries → Brazil ✦
From Las Palmas to Fortaleza or Salvador — the southwest Atlantic diagonal. Twenty-one days crossing...
21 days · Tier 2–3
Lost at Sea
You wake up not knowing where you are. Somewhere on the ocean — that's all you're told. No distance...
0 days · Tier 3–4 · Free
World Tour ★
Gibraltar, the Canaries, the equator, Cape Horn, the Roaring Forties, the Indian Ocean, Sumatra, the...
90 days · Tier 3–4
Solar Eclipses ★
During a partial solar eclipse, two bodies are simultaneously visible through the sextant. Two simul...
0 days · Tier 4–4 · Free