Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

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Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

Navigation and seamanship Motor / power boating and cruising Sailing / yachting

Author: Rene Westerhuis

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Language: English

Published by: Adlard Coles

Published on: 20th January 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 24 pages

ISBN: 9781472990655


Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide is the perfect at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew.

It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach. Spiral bound to lie flat, and with laminated splash-proof pages, it is the hands-free ready reckoner to help you get where you want to go.

Written in clear, practical language, with clear photos, step-by-step diagrams and actual chart extracts, the book covers:

  • Using nautical charts
  • Understanding buoys, marks and lights
  • Using the compass, log and depth gauge
  • Plotting positions (including by dead reckoning), courses and bearings
  • Understanding tides (heights, streams, including using tide tables) and currents
  • Factoring in the weather
  • Making a passage plan, keeping a logbook, and more

An essential title to have on board, this accessible book is aimed at skippers and crews of all levels, whether as a primer for those new to navigating or the perfect aide-memoire for those with prior experience.

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