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Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide
Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide
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ExcellentThe Skippers Cockpit Navigation Guide is a comprehensive and easy-to-use handbook for all skippers and crew, covering essential navigation skills and techniques. Written in clear, practical language with clear photos, step-by-step diagrams, and actual chart extracts, it covers using nautical charts, understanding buoys, marks, and lights, using the compass, log, and depth gauge, plotting positions, understanding tides and currents, factoring in the weather, making a passage plan, and keeping a logbook. An essential title to have on board, it 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.
Format: Spiral bound
Length: 24 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Whether you're planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel, or at the chart table, the Skippers Cockpit Navigation Guide is the ultimate at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques in a user-friendly, easy-to-follow, and concise approach. Spiral-bound to lie flat, with laminated splash-proof pages, it's 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.
Weight: 176g
Dimension: 197 x 239 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472990648
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