
Stress-Free Navigation
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But it need not be. All boaters, whether under sail or under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water - both to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost as a black art - complicated, full of tricky maths, and with alien concepts to get your head around.
Step in 'Mr Stress-Free': having in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for all - with minimum stress.
The book covers the basic introductory elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams, quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes - giving access to explanatory videos - are all features that have been much appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.
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Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Coypyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction and Philosophy
- 2. On Board
- Parameters
- Waypoints
- Autohelm
- Route
- 3. The Chart
- Seabed
- Rocks, wrecks and obstructions
- Updating
- Short distances and long distances
- 4. Position
- Distance
- Finding the position of something on a paper chart
- Plotting a position on to a chart
- Bearing and distance from and to
- 5. The Compass
- 6. Magnetic Variation and Deviation
- What do we do with magnetic variation?
- Deviation
- Steps taken to allow for variation and deviation
- 7. Fixing a Position
- 8. Tides
- Tidal hour
- Tidal diamonds and tidal stream atlas
- Computation of tidal rates
- 9. Leeway
- 10. Estimated Position
- How to work out an estimated position
- Projected estimated position
- Advanced estimated position
- Running fix
- 11. What if the GPS Dies?
- 12. Course to Steer
- Course to steer in your head
- 13. Time Zones
- 14. Tidal Heights
- Rule of twelfths
- Using tidal information
- 15. Secondary Ports
- 16. Sailing
- Points of sail
- Tacking and gybing
- True wind and apparent wind
- Laying the windward mark
- 17. Aids to Navigation
- Buoyage
- Lights
- Transits
- 18. The Collision Regulations (Colregs)
- Who gives way to whom?
- Vessel lights, day shapes and sound signals
- 19. Weather
- Scenarios
- What the clouds mean
- Frontal systems
- Buys Ballot's Law
- Shipping forecast
- The Beaufort scale
- Fog
- 20. Pilotage
- Key concepts
- 21. Passage Planning
- Considerations for passage planning
- 22. Anchoring
- Ground tackle
- Five essentials of anchoring
- Coding the cable
- How much scope to allow
- Quick tips for anchoring success
- 23. Safety
- Safety equipment
- Raising the alarm
- Man overboard
- Index
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