A full navigation course — the last line ashore to the first line at the next port, in the order it really happens.
Most navigation training tells you what the rules say. Almost none of it tells you what the job feels like at the moment you have to do it — which order things happen in, what you write down and where, who you call and when, and what somebody checks when they step onto your bridge. Port to Port is that missing conversation, taught by a serving Second Officer.
Two lessons are open to everyone — no account, no card. The rest unlock when you enrol.
Tap a chapter to see its lessons. Chapter 03 is open — it holds the two free lessons.
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Introduction: How This Mentorship Works
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Welcome aboard🔒
The gap between the book and the bridge🔒
How we will balance theory and practice🔒
What to expect of yourself🔒
01
Foundations: The Ground You Stand On
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Who makes the rules🔒
The conventions that touch your watch🔒
The ship's authority to sail🔒
The SMS, your company's law🔒
Publications, and what corrected really means🔒
The Master, and the orders he writes down🔒
So which one wins? — resolving conflicts🔒
02
The Bridge and Your Instruments
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A tour of the bridge — where everything is and why it's there🔒
The compasses — gyro, magnetic, error, and the daily check🔒
Radar and ARPA — what it sees, what it misses, how you set it up🔒
ECDIS — the chart, the settings that matter, the alarms that save you🔒
GNSS and AIS — position and identity, and how both lie🔒
Echo sounder, speed log, and the numbers you trustComing
Steering — modes, autopilot, hand steering, and the changeoverComing
BNWAS, VDR and the recorders that watch youComing
The tools that do the maths for you — and the ones that get you caughtComing
03
How Your Ship Handles
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The three documents — pilot card, wheelhouse poster, manoeuvring bookletComing
Turning circle — advance, transfer, tactical diameter, kickComing
Stopping — crash stop, and the truth about "full astern"Coming
Shallow water, squat and interaction
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Wind and current on the hull — and the help you haveComing
The emergency turns — Williamson, Anderson, Scharnov
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The Bridge Team
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Who everyone is to you — Master, Chief Officer, pilot, AB, cadetComing
How accidents build — the error chain and situational awarenessComing
Saying it out loud — closed-loop communication, challenge and responseComing
Being new — asking, admitting, and being corrected in front of peopleComing
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Preparation Prior Departure
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Working backwards from last line — the departure timelineComing
The passage plan you were handed — reading it, checking it, loading itComing
Charts, ENC and publications corrected up to the dayComing
Bridge equipment pre-departure testsComing
Steering gear tests — the one they always ask aboutComing
The pre-departure checklist — signing it honestly, and what "N/A" costs youComing
Draft, air draft and under-keel clearance — your sanity checkComing
The Master–Pilot exchange — preparing the cardComing
Squaring away — lights and shapes, flags, ETA and reportsComing
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During Departure
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Stations — who's where, and your job in themComing
The bell book — what you write, when, in what wordsComing
The pilot on your bridge — advice, the con, and monitoringComing
Helm orders — giving them, checking them, correcting themComing
Tugs, lines, and the moments things go wrongComing
From stations to sea watch — the changeover and the logComing
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Knowing Where You Are
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What a fix actually is — and why one source is never enoughComing
Visual fixes — bearings, transits, and the ones you can take fastComing
Radar fixing and parallel indexingComing
GNSS — using it, cross-checking it, knowing when it's wrongComing
DR, EP, set and driftComing
Monitoring on ECDIS — XTD, safety contour, alarms, and the check cycleComing
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The Bridge Watch: Coastal · Open Sea · Ocean
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Taking over — the handover that protects youComing
The watch you owe — STCW watchkeeping in plain languageComing
The deck logbook — what you write, what you never write, how to correct itComing
The coastal watch — traffic, TSS, pilotage waters, close quartersComing
The open-sea watch — rhythm, routine checks, staying awake to itComing
The ocean watch and the noon reportComing
The lookout — posting one, using one, managing an ABComing
Calling the Master — the threshold, the phone call, the wordsComing
Restricted visibility — what changes the moment it closes inComing
Night, fatigue and rest hours — the honest versionComing
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GMDSS for the OOW
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What GMDSS is, in one lesson — sea areas, and why your ship carries what she carriesComing
The equipment on your bridge — what you touch, what you never touchComing
Sending a distress alert — the button, the words, the sequenceComing
Receiving one — acknowledge, relay, and waking the MasterComing
False alerts — how they happen, and how to cancel one properlyComing
Tests, batteries and the radio logComing
NAVTEX, MSI, and talking on the radio — SMCP with VTS, pilot and portComing
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Weather on Your Watch
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Getting the weather — what reaches the bridge, and the routing servicesComing
Reading the picture — what a synoptic chart tells a watchkeeperComing
Heavy weather and tropical revolving storms — precautions, avoidance, reportingComing
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Emergencies on Your Watch
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The first sixty seconds — what every emergency has in commonComing
Man overboardComing
Fire alarmComing
Blackout and steering failureComing
Collision, grounding and floodingComing
Distress received — the duty to assist, and what your ship can actually doComing
Medical emergency, and calling for helpComing
Muster and abandon ship — the bridge's part, and what leaves with youComing
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Anchoring and the Anchor Watch
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Preparing to anchor — the plan, the brief, the checksComing
Letting go, and brought up — what you recordComing
The anchor watch alone at night — dragging, swinging, traffic, and when to callComing
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Arrival Preparation
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Working backwards from the pilot stationComing
Arrival charts, berth information and port guidesComing
The arrival checklist and equipment testsComing
The Master–Pilot exchange, inboundComing
Pre-arrival reports and formalities — ETA, ISPS, pratique, agentComing
The pilot ladder — rigging it right, because this one kills peopleComing
Under-keel clearance, tide, and the arrival windowComing
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Arrival: Pilot, Stations, Alongside
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The approach and the pilot boardingComing
Stations, tugs, and the bell book againComing
Alongside — first line to all fastComing
Closing the passage — logs, drafts, times, reportsComing
Handing over to port routineComing
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When They Come Aboard
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Port State Control — what they check in your domainComing
Talking to an inspector — what you say, what you don't, what you never guessComing
The internal ISM audit and the superintendentComing
Vetting — SIRE 2.0 and RightShip/DryBMSComing
Flag, class, and the certificate folderComing
When they find something — non-conformity, corrective action, and not panickingComing
LB
Bulk lane
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Hold readiness and surveysComing
BLU Code and the loading planComing
Draft survey and the deck watchComing
Bulk-specific inspectionComing
LT
Tanker lane
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The ship–shore safety checklistComing
ISGOTT and the deck watch in portComing
Inert gas and cargo-area rules that reach the bridgeComing
SIRE 2.0 for the junior officerComing
LC
Container lane
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Lashing and securingComing
VGM and stowage informationComing
Deck watch and the box countComing
Container-specific inspectionComingThe three lanes at the end are the same voyage seen from your own deck — what changes when the cargo is grain, crude or boxes. Lessons marked in production are written and being filmed; they land in your account as each is finished.
You were taught the rules. You were never shown the watch.
The exams assume a conversation with a senior officer that, for most of us, never happened.
COLREGs and SOLAS are on your ship already. What is missing is what a competent officer does with them at 0345 in traffic.
Preparation, departure, the passage, the watch, arrival — the sequence you will live, not a syllabus sorted by subject.
Taught by a serving Second Officer, in the words a senior would actually use on the bridge wing.
Someone who stood the watch this contract — who knows what the Master will call you about at 0200, which alarm you will learn to ignore and why that is the dangerous one, and what a pilot expects to find when he steps onto your bridge.
Simplified Maritime has taught Filipino officers on Facebook for years, and the Navigators Club community is now more than 1,900 seafarers. Port to Port is that same voice, written down properly and filmed.
Most courses assume you are ashore on wifi. This one assumes you are three days off the coast with a satellite link you have been told not to waste.
Pull the chapters onto your phone alongside, then watch them mid-ocean with the data off. The whole app is offline-first.
The films are protected, so they play in the Seaman App on Android (or in Safari on an iPhone). The reading, handouts and your progress are also on the web at app.seamanapp.com — same account, same place in the course.
Two years of access. Come back to the arrival chapter the night before you actually do one — that is when it means the most.
You are enrolling in a course that is still being made — which is the only reason it costs what it does. Every remaining chapter lands in your account as it is finished, at no extra cost, for the whole two years.
The price while the course is being built.
▣ QR Ph Scan with GCash, Maya or any bank app.
Outside the Philippines? Pay $50 with PayPal
Would rather send the money to a person? We can enrol you by hand.
Scan the QR Ph code with GCash, Maya or your bank app, and create your free Seaman App account with the same email.
Install the Seaman App on Android and sign in — that is where the videos play. On an iPhone, watch in Safari at app.seamanapp.com.
Start with the 18 lessons that are out. Download them in port and study them on passage, offline. New chapters appear as they are finished.
18 lessons — about 2 hours 32 minutes — are complete and watchable the moment you enrol: the introduction, the whole Foundations chapter, five of the nine lessons on the bridge and its instruments, and two lessons from the ship-handling chapter, which are free to watch on this page. The other chapters are in production and appear in your account as each one is finished, at no extra cost. That unfinished state is the reason for the price.
Chapters are filmed and released in voyage order, and we publish each one the week it is finished rather than promising a date we might miss. Your two years of access begins the day you enrol and comfortably covers the build.
No. It's honest peer-to-peer mentorship from a serving officer. It confers no certificate and no endorsement, and it doesn't replace your company's SMS or the officer teaching you onboard. It's the conversation the certificates assume you already had.
Two years from the day you enrol — one payment, no subscription. Everything released in that window is yours to watch and re-watch as often as you like.
Yes. Download the videos in port on the Android app and watch them mid-ocean. The whole app is built offline-first for a ship's connection.
Entry to intermediate — cadets, new OOWs, and anyone who knows the theory but wants to know how the watch actually runs. There are dedicated lanes for bulk, tanker and container ships.
Tap Enrol now and scan the QR Ph code with GCash, Maya or any bank app — your access unlocks by itself, usually within a minute. Paying from outside the Philippines? PayPal is $50. And if you would rather send the money to a person, we can enrol you by hand. You create a free Seaman App account with the same email and the course unlocks.
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