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A guide to maritime navigation for beginners.
Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible.
It covers all modern navigation and has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start.
It explains simply how to look at charts (paper or digital), find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to.
Table of Contents
Welcome to Navigation
Looking at Charts: Types of charts, Depths & heights
Giving a Position: Latitude & longitude, Range & bearing
Finding Your Position: GNSS, A fix, A DR position
An estimated position
Looking at Tides: General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heights
Sierra on Passage
Course to Steer: The basic plot, … so much more
Pilotage: The buoyage system, The plan
Passage Planning: The regulations, The navigational plan
Looking at Electronics: The basics, Chart plotters
Sierra on Passage (continued)
Navigation … to sum up
Glossary
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About the Author
Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner and lives at Pin Mill in Suffolk where she runs an RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and is now the Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. She is also the author of Fernhurst Books’ VHF Afloat and Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea, starting from scratch and using no jargon. Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Covering paper and digital charts, it has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to. AUTHOR: Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She runs an RYA Training Centre in Suffolk which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. Sara has written books for the RYA and Fernhurst Books' Skipper's Pocketbook, VHF Afloat and VHF Companion. SELLING POINTS: . A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea since 2006. . By an experienced instructor who gives an accurate but sympathetic introduction to the subject. . Uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. 80 colour photographs, 120 diagrams, 10 charts Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781912621729
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