Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
Learn how to navigate at sea
Published on 14. March 2023
96 pages
978-1-912621-89-7 (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.
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03/2024
4th Edition
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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 has also been 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
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Welcome to Navigation
- Looking at Charts
- Types Of Chart
- 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
- Tide Tables & Tidal Heights
- Tidal Streams
- Using Tidal Heights
- Sierra on A Passage
- Pin Mill Towards Brightlingsea
- Course To Steer
- The Basic Plot
- ... So Much More
- Pilotage
- The Buoyage System
- The Plan
- Passage Planning
- The Regulations
- The Navigation Plan
- Looking At Electrics
- The Basics
- Chart Plotters
- Sierra
- The Passage Continued
- Navigation
- To Sum Up
- Glossary
- Copyright
