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A navigator is the person onboard a ship responsible for the navigation of the vessel. The navigator's responsibilities include planning the journey, advising the captain (or pilot) while on route, and ensuring that hazards or obstacles from both climatic and geomatics are avoided.

Role and Duties

A navigator is the member of the crew who holds the most knowledge about the world, as it is crucial for the determination of course and direction when traveling. A good navigator has a skilled understanding of tools such as maps, compasses and sea charts that are able to traverse through the sea. While not typical, many navigators have the knowledge of cartography, giving them the ability not just to read maps, but to create their own.

While many navigators must have basic knowledge and ability to use the common tools and abilities of their trade, they are also required to pick up on new matters that make traveling across the seas easier and better.^[2] In particular, navigators traveling through the Grand Line must gain affiliation with the Log Pose, the only known compass that can travel through this part of the world. Due to its intricate and delicate nature and its special attributes, such as coordinating with an island's magnetic field and the ability to point in directions not normally known for travel (such as the sky or the depths of the ocean), navigators must come to grips and understand the unique climactic quirks of the Grand Line, allowing the rest of the crew to make necessary adjustments in their ship so they can follow the desired path.^[3] Without an active navigator, particularly in the Grand Line, the journey becomes much more difficult, leading to the crew getting lost, like Brook once he revived, or coming across unexpected matters whether or not they are already mapped out.

In One Piece, navigators are the most crucial members of a ship, especially when traveling the Grand Line. Whenever a member of a crew, be it pirates or marines, is seen with a Log Pose tied to their wrists, their position as their respective crew's navigator becomes immediately evident, since Log Poses are one of the most crucial tools for navigation. It is said that a ship is only as good as the navigator that directs it, otherwise, the ship will be damaged or shipwrecked by unforeseen obstacles. A strong example of this is the Barto Club, who got caught in a hail storm and had no counter-measures due to having no navigator.^[4]

Unlike other members of crews, such as musicians, doctors, or chefs, navigators are not formally introduced and generally do not work outside a sailing group. Characters that are classified as navigators are rare, despite how important they are to the ship.

Navigators

See also the associated category: Navigators.

[v · e · ?] Navigators
Koby Nami Eddy (Unknown status) ? Laffitte Bepo Road Building Snake Scopper Gaban ?????
Non-Canon
Borodo Rasa Fune Lip Shark Pororoka (Deceased) † Kimi Hiroki Kisasa Toshi Vasco

Noted Navigational Skills

• Mr. 9: Seen with a Log Pose until he lost it to Nami.
• Portgas D. Ace (Second-Division Commander; Whitebeard Pirates): Seen with a Log Pose.
• Galdino: Seen with a Log Pose on his wrist while fighting Luffy on Little Garden.
• Dracule Mihawk: Able to sail through the unforgiving seas of the Grand Line in a meager coffin-shaped raft, with no known assistance.
• Perona: Able to sail the Grand Line, having been able to travel from Paradise to the New World by herself.
• Nekomamushi: Was able to sail from Zou to Sphinx.^[5]

Trivia

• Sabo was noted to have a passion for navigation in his childhood, to the point Ace was planning on recruiting him as his own crew's navigator once they were old enough.^[6]
• Capone Bege was seen calling for his navigator at one point, but whoever that character is remains unknown.^[7]

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