Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide
tammi 2022 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide is the perfect at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach. Spiral bound to lie flat, and with laminated splash-proof pages, it is the hands-free ready reckoner to help you get where you want to go.
Written in clear, practical language, with clear photos, step-by-step diagrams and actual chart extracts, the book covers:
- Using nautical charts
- Understanding buoys, marks and lights
- Using the compass, log and depth gauge
- Plotting positions (including by dead reckoning), courses and bearings
- Understanding tides (heights, streams, including using tide tables) and currents
- Factoring in the weather
- Making a passage plan, keeping a logbook, and more
An essential title to have on board, this accessible book is aimed at skippers and crews of all levels, whether as a primer for those new to navigating or the perfect aide-memoire for those with prior experience.
Written in clear, practical language, with clear photos, step-by-step diagrams and actual chart extracts, the book covers:
- Using nautical charts
- Understanding buoys, marks and lights
- Using the compass, log and depth gauge
- Plotting positions (including by dead reckoning), courses and bearings
- Understanding tides (heights, streams, including using tide tables) and currents
- Factoring in the weather
- Making a passage plan, keeping a logbook, and more
An essential title to have on board, this accessible book is aimed at skippers and crews of all levels, whether as a primer for those new to navigating or the perfect aide-memoire for those with prior experience.
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Rene Westerhuis writes and provides photography for numerous yachting magazines around the world. He is highly regarded for his succinct and accessible style, explaining complex topics in a way anyone can understand. He is the author of numerous books in his native Netherlands, as well as the Skipper's Mast and Rigging Guide, also published by Adlard Coles.
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