Learn to Navigate

Name: Learn to Navigate | The No-Nonsense Guide for Everyone
Brand: Adlard Coles Nautical
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The No-Nonsense Guide for Everyone

Basil Mosenthal(Autor*in)

Adlard Coles Nautical (Verlag)

6. Auflage

Erschienen am 5. Juni 2014

80 Seiten

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Inhalt

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 CHARTS
Abbreviations and symbols
Soundings
Colours
Scale and distance
Latitude and longitude
Depths
Underwater dangers
Enough charts?
Nautical almanacs
2 COMPASSES
Where your compass is pointing
The compass rose
The steering compass
Course and Bearing
3 WORKING ON A CHART
Chart instruments
Distance
Measuring distance on a chart
Measuring distance in real time
Courses and bearings
Plotting courses and bearings
Using a parallel ruler
Position
Using a Portland Course Plotter
Speed
Time, Speed and Distance
Plotting GPS Lat. and Long. positions on a chart
Plotting by range and bearing
Plotting by range and GPS cross track error reading
Keeping charts up to date
Taking care of charts
Check. and check again
4 ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION
GPS - what it is
What is a waypoint?
Terminology
Go To function
Man overboard
GPS and the new navigator
Radar
Radar beacons (Racons)
5 BUOYS AND LIGHTS
Buoys
Cardinal buoys
Lights
Identifying lights
Lights on cardinal buoys
Colours of lights
Sound signals
6 TIDES RISING & FALLING
High water and low water
Spring and neap tides
Heights and depths
Tide tables
Secondary ports
Why do we need to know the exact depth?
Calculating tidal heights
7 TIDAL STREAMS
Tidal stream charts
Tidal information on charts
The effect of the tidal stream
A tidal stream on the beam also has an effect...
What is the stream doing?
Dodging the tide - or making the best of it
8 NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS
Logs
Speedometers
Echo sounder
Lead lines
Hand-bearing compass
Binoculars
9 GETTING STARTED
Pilotage
When you are 'buoy hopping'
Plotting and steering a course
Knowing where you are
Dead reckoning
The effect of the tide
Allowing for the tide
10 FIXING YOUR POSITION
Using a hand-bearing compass
Position lines
Fixes
Cocked hats
The running fix
Transits
The clearing bearing
Going to windward - tacking
A simple passage
11 INTO HARBOUR
Finding the information
Doing your homework
Depths inside
Pilots and cruising guides
Information from almanacs
Approaching harbour
Commercial ports
12 PLANNING PASSAGES
Longer passages
How far off?
Shallow water
Time and the tide
Planning for the tide
Knowing where you are
13 MORE ABOUT YOUR COMPASS
Magnetic v true
Deviation
Correcting for deviation
The 'CADET' rule
14 SAILING AT NIGHT
Busy areas at night
Night vision
Logbooks
The right course
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Acknowledgements

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