Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide - Sara Hopkinson

Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide

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Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2014 | 2nd edition
Fernhurst Books Limited (Verlag)
978-1-909911-07-9 (ISBN)
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This book tackles navigation from scratch, uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible.
Navigators have only 2 questions: Where am I? Where do I go now? This book shows the simplest way to answer these questions. It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. This bestselling book has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst for beginners and Day Skipper students. Explaining how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determining the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to be.

Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner and lives at Pin Mill in Suffolk where she runs an RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and is now the Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. She is also the author of Fernhurst Books’ VHF Afloat and VHF Companion.

Looking at charts; Giving a position; Finding your position; Looking at tides; Sierra on passage; Course to steer; Pilotage; Passage planning; Looking at electronics; The passage continued; Summary; Glossary

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2014
Zusatzinfo 124 Diagrams; 71 Halftones, color
Verlagsort Leamington Spa
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Gewicht 248 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10 1-909911-07-0 / 1909911070
ISBN-13 978-1-909911-07-9 / 9781909911079
Zustand Neuware
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