Celestial Navigation: A Home Study Course - Softcover

Burch, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914025015 ISBN 13: 9780914025016

Publisher: Starpath Publications, 2008

Synopsis

This textbook has been used in the Starpath classroom and online courses in celestial navigation for many years. It is also now used by several other schools around the country. The material is presented as a home study course, with practice exercises at each step. All the necessary table selections are included, as well as work forms and plotting sheets that can be photocopied.  It is a one book course.

Besides it use for racing and cruising sailors, this book has also been used to train world record setting ocean rowers and the officers of US war ships. It is the training text used by several sailing certification agencies in the US.

About this title

About the Author

David Burch, PhD, FRIN, is the Director of Starpath School of Navigation, which after 26,000 classroom students since 1979 switched to all online training in 2008. He is the author of 13 books and hundreds of magazine articles. He received the Institute of Navigation's Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator. He is Fellow of the US Institute of Navigation as well as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London. He has extensive ocean sailing experience covering much of the globe, and once held an elapsed time record for the Victoria to Maui Yacht Race that lasted for 16 years. On the academic side, he is a past Fulbright Scholar with a PHD in physics.

From the Back Cover

Also by David Burch

How to use Plastic Sextants -- with application to metal sextants and a review of sextant piloting

and

The Star Finder Book -- A guide to the many uses of the 2102-D Star Finder

Edition details

• Publisher: Starpath Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914025015
• ISBN 13: 9780914025016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256