Practical Navigation for the Modern Boat Owner
Navigate Effectively by Getting the Most Out of Your Electronic Devices
Published on 14. April 2008
200 pages
978-1-912177-51-6 (ISBN)
Description
The modern sailor is an electronic navigator. New boats come stacked with GPS, chartplotters and radar, on a bewildering array of screens and displays. With this book learn how to navigate using all of these electrical devices. Practical Navigation leads you through all the aspects of boat navigation in a logical order, using a combination of modern and traditional methods. This practical approach ensures that although modern electronic methods remain at the forefront, readers will never lack in knowledge to navigate their boat safely in any circumstance. Topics covered include GPS, the shape of the Earth, finding your position, passage planning, radar and personal computers.
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Pat Manley is a keen sailor and one of Practical Boat Owner magazine's team of experts, answering readers' questions. He is author of Fernhurst Book's Simple Boat Maintenance, Essential Boat Electronics, Diesels Afloat, Electrics Companion and Diesel Companion.
Content
- 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
