navigate

Verb

• direct carefully and safely
  • He navigated his way to the altar
    

• act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
  • Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?
    
  • Who was navigating the ship during the accident?
    

• travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
  • The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pilot , voyage , sail