
Learn to Navigate
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Covering the essentials of reading a chart, understanding tides, using navigation instruments, plotting a position and planning a passage, it is ideal for novices of all ages wanting a simple introduction to what can seem a daunting subject. This new edition has been brought fully up-to-date with a full colour presentation of diagrams and illustrations, providing the simplest, most straightforward introduction to navigation there is.
'Basil Mosenthal has produced a book that takes the reader a long way in a short space' Sailing Today ?
'An ideal shoehorn for anyone wishing to ease into navigation' Sailing
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CHARTS
- Abbreviations and symbols
- Soundings
- Colours
- Scale and distance
- Latitude and longitude
- Depths
- Underwater dangers
- Enough charts?
- Nautical almanacs
- 2 COMPASSES
- Where your compass is pointing
- The compass rose
- The steering compass
- Course and Bearing
- 3 WORKING ON A CHART
- Chart instruments
- Distance
- Measuring distance on a chart
- Measuring distance in real time
- Courses and bearings
- Plotting courses and bearings
- Using a parallel ruler
- Position
- Using a Portland Course Plotter
- Speed
- Time, Speed and Distance
- Plotting GPS Lat. and Long. positions on a chart
- Plotting by range and bearing
- Plotting by range and GPS cross track error reading
- Keeping charts up to date
- Taking care of charts
- Check. and check again
- 4 ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION
- GPS - what it is
- What is a waypoint?
- Terminology
- Go To function
- Man overboard
- GPS and the new navigator
- Radar
- Radar beacons (Racons)
- 5 BUOYS AND LIGHTS
- Buoys
- Cardinal buoys
- Lights
- Identifying lights
- Lights on cardinal buoys
- Colours of lights
- Sound signals
- 6 TIDES RISING & FALLING
- High water and low water
- Spring and neap tides
- Heights and depths
- Tide tables
- Secondary ports
- Why do we need to know the exact depth?
- Calculating tidal heights
- 7 TIDAL STREAMS
- Tidal stream charts
- Tidal information on charts
- The effect of the tidal stream
- A tidal stream on the beam also has an effect...
- What is the stream doing?
- Dodging the tide - or making the best of it
- 8 NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS
- Logs
- Speedometers
- Echo sounder
- Lead lines
- Hand-bearing compass
- Binoculars
- 9 GETTING STARTED
- Pilotage
- When you are 'buoy hopping'
- Plotting and steering a course
- Knowing where you are
- Dead reckoning
- The effect of the tide
- Allowing for the tide
- 10 FIXING YOUR POSITION
- Using a hand-bearing compass
- Position lines
- Fixes
- Cocked hats
- The running fix
- Transits
- The clearing bearing
- Going to windward - tacking
- A simple passage
- 11 INTO HARBOUR
- Finding the information
- Doing your homework
- Depths inside
- Pilots and cruising guides
- Information from almanacs
- Approaching harbour
- Commercial ports
- 12 PLANNING PASSAGES
- Longer passages
- How far off?
- Shallow water
- Time and the tide
- Planning for the tide
- Knowing where you are
- 13 MORE ABOUT YOUR COMPASS
- Magnetic v true
- Deviation
- Correcting for deviation
- The 'CADET' rule
- 14 SAILING AT NIGHT
- Busy areas at night
- Night vision
- Logbooks
- The right course
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- Acknowledgements
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