The Lo-Tech Navigator

Tony Crowley, a former merchant navy officer, learned to sail as a boy in Egypt using an abandoned seaplane float. He is the author of The Sailing Quiz Book and various magazine and journal articles, in Britain and the USA, on emergency and traditional navigation.

Introduction
1. Three compasses for the price of one
2. A sailing personality quiz
3. Gone with the wind - a handheld anemometer
4. Test your knowledge of the wind
5. A tide table holder
6. McGrath's revenge
7. A tide abacus
8. A fatal flaw
9. A handy sun compass
10. Rope trick
11. A drogue log
12. Singlehander--a protractor for knee top navigation
13. The magic of 6 degrees
14. Alcor--the mariner's eyesight test
15. Spice jar navigation lights
16. A ready-made heliograph
17. A weekend sailor's logbook
18. Four moorings and a fiasco
19. Threefold puzzle
20.A hand leadline
21. Reading the sea
22. Self-steering
23. 1912
24. Sun navigation in a nutshell
25. A mariner's quadrant
26. The cross-staff
27. A hi-tech back-staff
28. Henry the octant
29. Dire straits navigation
30. The moon as your compass
31. Survive!
32. Killorain's treasure island
33. A seafarer's sundial
34. Latitude and longitude by compass
35. Where the sky is blue
36. The longitude game
37. Polarum
38. A trick with Kochab
39. I want to be Captain
40. Steering by the stars
41. Plumb-line navigation
Appendix 1. Tide abacus scale
Appendix 2. Almanac data for use with sundial
Appendix 3. Vernier scales
Appendix 4. GHA Aries without an almanac
References