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Illustrated Navigation: Traditional, Electronic & Celestial Navigation
Today, yachts are often equipped with radar, GPS, chart plotters, AIS, etc. This equipment has also become much more reliable, making it possible to make long offshore passages without a great knowledge of navigation. However, such equipment can be set up wrongly, interpreted incorrectly, malfunction or lose power. In these circumstances, knowledge of traditional navigation can become extremely important. This book will teach you how to navigate in the traditional way using compass, log and plotter; and also how to navigate using electronic aids like GPS, radar and chart plotter. In addition, you will learn some basic celestial navigation using the sun and stars to obtain your position using sextant, almanacs, tables and a watch. Each method of navigation is explained alongside detailed illustrations and examples, combining to make a straightforward and easy-to-follow guide.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 26, 2006
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March 21, 2024
Great book densely packed with easy to follow information from the basic traditional navigation to electronic and then to celestial. I would have liked to see an expansion of interpolation of secondary ports. As the book is a pdf some of the graphic and text do not come out well on a paper white kindle. Probably better as a hard copy rather than the soft kindle.
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