Understanding a Nautical Chart
A Practical Guide to Safe Navigation
Published on 21. April 2011
197 pages
978-1-912177-45-5 (ISBN)
Description
Charts are filled with a mass of data. This book tells you where to find - and how to understand - this vital knowledge.
First explaining how charts are compiled, this guides you through the elements that make up these vital navigational tools. Improve your understanding of charts and you will navigate with increased safety and confidence. In addition to the wealth of practical advice included, the book also contains the Symbols and Abbreviations Used on Admiralty Charts in full.
Ideal for professional mariners and leisure sailors. No chart table should be without it.
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Paul Boissier has spent much of his professional life at sea, and has commanded a number of Royal Navy warships. He is also a very experienced yachtsman and has cruised extensively. These perspectives from the cockpit of a yacht and the bridge of a large ship make him the ideal author for a COLREGs guide that will be equally useful to leisure boat users and professional mariners. Paul is now the chief executive of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), the charity that saves lives at sea and operates over 340 lifeboats around the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
