
Practical Navigation for the Modern Boat Owner
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- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Cover Points
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Global Positioning System
- How Your GPS Receiver Tells You Which Satellites It Can See
- How GPS Works
- Accuracy of the Fix
- GPS Blackout
- Deliberate Interference
- GPS Is Line of Sight
- Selective Availability
- Differential GPS
- Wide Area Augmentation Service
- Switch-On Delays
- Measurement of Speed
- Measurement of Course
- Measurement of Heading
- Errors in COG and SOG
- 2 Our Address on the Earth's Surface
- The Equator
- Latitude
- Greenwich Meridian
- Longitude
- Our Address
- International Date Line
- Measurement of Latitude and Longitude
- Distance and Direction
- Direction
- The Flat Earth
- The Spherical Earth and 'Map Data'
- Chart Errors
- Chart Scale
- Measuring Latitude and Longitude
- Chart Symbols
- 3 The Magnetic Compass
- The Earth's Magnetic Field
- Steering Compasses
- Compass Deviation
- Compass Correction
- DIY Compass 'Swing'
- Fluxgate Compasses
- 4 Constructing a Route
- Using Second-Hand Waypoints
- Loading the Route into the GPS
- Constructing a Route on an Electronic Chartplotter or PC
- 5 Tides
- Tidal Heights
- Tidal Flow
- Finding the Value of the Tidal Flow
- 6 Boat Speed
- Speed over the Ground
- Speed Through the Water
- Measuring Speed Through the Water
- Log Errors
- 7 Depth Sounders
- How They Work
- Depth Units
- Calibration
- Depth Alarms
- False Echoes
- Fishfinders
- 8 Finding Position
- GPS
- Other Methods
- Position Lines
- Fixing Your Position Using Position Lines
- Errors in Position Lines
- How Far Can You See?
- When All Else Fails
- Chartplotters
- 9 Passage Planning
- Overview
- Detailed Plan
- Just Prior to Departure
- Passage Planning - Procedure
- Preplan
- For the Planned Day of Departure
- Passage Making
- Passage Grid
- Approach 'Spider's Web'
- Compass Rose as a Waypoint
- Unmarked Danger as a Waypoint
- Clearing Bearing
- 10 Pilotage
- Who Does the Piloting?
- Means of Pilotage
- International System of Buoyage
- International Buoyage - All Areas
- Planning
- The Basics of Preparing a Pilot Plan
- Making a Pilotage Plan
- Working as a Team
- 11 Automatic Identification System
- What is Automatic Identification System?
- How Does AIS Work?
- Class A AIS
- Class B AIS
- AIS Displays
- The AIS Display on a Chartplotter
- AIS Class B Transceiver 107
- 12 Radar
- How Radar Works
- Navigation Using Radar
- Pilotage Using Radar
- Radar Overlay on a Chart Plotter
- Setting up Your Radar
- Radar Used for Collision Avoidance
- 13 Autopilots
- Types of Autopilot
- Using the Autopilot
- 14 Personal Computers
- What Type of PC
- What Make of Chart-Plotting Software?
- What Type of Electronic Charts?
- Electronic Charts for PC Based Chartplotters
- Selecting the Software
- Constructing a Route
- Sailing Yacht Route Planning
- Sending the Route to the GPS
- AIS on a PC
- Radar on a PC
- Navtex on a PC
- Tides on a PC
- Connecting to the Boat's Systems
- Appendix A Deduced Reckoning and Estimated Position
- DR Navigation
- Estimated Position
- Leeway
- Error in EP
- EP with Multiple Headings
- Appendix B Course to Steer
- Where Do You Want to Go?
- What Time Interval Do You Choose?
- Draw in the Tide
- Draw in the Boat Speed
- Ground Speed
- Comparison with EP
- Appendix C Tidal heights and Tidal streams
- Atmospheric Pressure Corrections
- Tide Tables
- UKHO Tidal Predictions
- SHOM Tidal Predictions
- Tidal Streams
- Appendix D Tidal Planning and Plotting
- A Long Passage Using a Single CTS
- Where will the Tide Take You?
- Credits
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