Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
2nd Edition
Published on 28. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-909911-07-9 (ISBN)
Description
Navigators have only 2 questions: Where am I? Where do I go now? This book shows the simplest way to answer these questions. It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. This bestselling book has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst for beginners and Day Skipper students. Explaining how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determining the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to be.
Reviews / Votes
"I gave a copy to a dinghy sailor who had very little navigation knowledge and, within an hour or so, she felt confident enough to do the basics to get a boat from A to B using chart navigation. A good first introduction to navigation." (Sailing Today) "This excellent book has the best explanation of accessing your course to steer I've ever read. Her no-nonsense approach will be a huge benefit to the novice sailor grappling at home with training, but it will also be welcomed by the harassed skipper, a little rusty from winter lay-up, who just wants a quick reminder of what he's supposed to be doing. I will keep a copy aboard myself." (Yachting Monthly)More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leamington Spa
United Kingdom
Illustrations
124 Diagrams; 71 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909911-07-9 (9781909911079)
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Sara Hopkinson
Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
Book
05/2020
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Person
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 VHF Companion.
Content
Looking at charts; Giving a position; Finding your position; Looking at tides; Sierra on passage; Course to steer; Pilotage; Passage planning; Looking at electronics; The passage continued; Summary; Glossary