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Navigation: A Newcomers Guide Sara Hopkinson

Navigation: A Newcomers Guide By Sara Hopkinson

Navigation: A Newcomers Guide by Sara Hopkinson


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Summary

Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students.

Navigation: A Newcomers Guide Summary

Navigation: A Newcomers Guide: Learn How to Navigate at Sea by Sara Hopkinson

Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start. It explains simply how to look at charts (paper or digital), find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to.

About Sara Hopkinson

Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She runs an RYA Training Centre in Suffolk which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She was a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. Sara has written books for the RYA and Fernhurst Books Skippers Pocketbook, VHF Afloat and VHF Companion.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Navigation; Looking at Charts: Types of charts, Depths & heights; Giving a Position: Latitude & longitude, Range & bearing; Finding Your Position: GNSS, A fix, A DR position; An estimated position; Looking at Tides: General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heights; Sierra on Passage; Course to Steer: The basic plot, so much more; Pilotage: The buoyage system, The plan; Passage Planning: The regulations, The navigational plan; Looking at Electronics: The basics, Chart plotters; Sierra on Passage (continued); Navigation to sum up; Glossary

Additional information

NGR9781912621729
9781912621729
191262172X
Navigation: A Newcomers Guide: Learn How to Navigate at Sea by Sara Hopkinson
New
Paperback
Fernhurst Books Limited
2024-03-12
96
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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