Description
The Skipper’s Cockpit Navigation Guide is the ideal instant reference for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach.
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
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.
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