Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

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Beschreibung

Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide is the perfect at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach. 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.

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

An essential title to have on board, this accessible book is aimed at skippers and crews of all levels, whether as a primer for those new to navigating or the perfect aide-memoire for those with prior experience.

Über den Autor

Rene Westerhuis writes and provides photography for numerous yachting magazines around the world. He is highly regarded for his succinct and accessible style, explaining complex topics in a way anyone can understand. He is the author of numerous books in his native Netherlands, as well as the Skipper's Mast and Rigging Guide, also published by Adlard Coles.

Zusammenfassung

Excellent companion to the Reeds Nautical Almanac - that provides the information about tides and marks, this book shows how to incorporate that into a passage plan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Using nautical charts
Understanding buoys and lights
Using the compass, log and depth gauge
Plotting positions, courses and bearings
Understanding tides and currents
Travel preparation
Weather

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Sport
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Wassersport& Segeln
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472990648
ISBN-10:	1472990641
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Westerhuis, Rene
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	197 x 239 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Rene Westerhuis
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,176 kg