NOAA Training Chart 13205 TR: BLOCK ISLAND

NOAA Training Chart 13205TR covers Block Island Sound.

Now printed on heavier stock!

Training charts are special editions of NOAA charts that are kept "frozen in time." Each one is date-locked and intentionally never updated, so the soundings, aids to navigation and other details stay the same from one class, textbook or test to the next. That is why mariner-training schools, instructors and students use them to learn and practice chart plotting and navigation, and why they are used in marine training tests.

Chart 13205TR is one of three training charts (12221TR, 12354TR and 13205TR) that the U.S. Coast Guard National Maritime Center lists among the reference materials available in the exam room for deck license examinations, which makes it useful practice for students preparing for a USCG license exam.

The National Maritime Center's own sample navigation problems for the Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels (OUPV) exam are worked by plotting on chart 13205TR. They cover fixes from bearings, set and drift, compass course and deviation, course to steer with current and leeway, speed made good and ETA.

Relevant pages of symbols and abbreviations from Chart No. 1 are printed on the reverse side of some training charts.

For instructional purposes only. Not to be used for navigation. NOAA training charts carry this marking. Because a training chart is not updated, it does not show present-day conditions. For use on the water, choose a NOAA Custom Chart (NCC), built from NOAA's latest ENC data.