GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
All Instructions and Tables Included; For Any Ocean, on Any Date; No Background in Celestial Navigation Required.
Published on 6. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-0-914025-60-3 (ISBN)
Description
No power, and batteries used up? This book and a Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on. It's a short book, mostly tables. You can read it in an hour or two, master the sights in less than that, and find your position the next time you see the sun at noon.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
149 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-914025-60-3 (9780914025603)
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David Burch is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation in Washington, DC, from which he received the Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator. He has logged more than 70,000 miles at sea, including twelve transoceanic yacht races, with several first place victories and a passage record for boats under 36 feet that lasted 16 years. He also navigated the only American entry in the storm-ridden 1993 Sydney to Hobart Race. On the academic side, he is a former Fulbright Scholar with a PhD in physics. As Founding Director of Starpath School of Navigation in Seattle he has designed courses and taken part in the teaching of marine weather and navigation for more than 30 years. He continues to work on the development of online training materials, which are presented at starpath.com. His articles on special topics in navigation and weather appear at starpath.com/articles.