Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
Learn How to Navigate at Sea
4th Edition
Published on 12. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-912621-72-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Edition
4th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leamington Spa
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
10 Maps; 120 Illustrations, color; 80 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
244 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912621-72-9 (9781912621729)
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Additional editions
E-Book
03/2023
Fernhurst Books Limited
€14.39
Available for download
Previous edition
Sara Hopkinson
Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
Book
05/2020
3rd Edition
Fernhurst Books Limited
€36.08
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Person
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 was 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.
Content
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