Coastal and Offshore Navigation - Softcover

Cunliffe, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470753900 ISBN 13: 9780470753903

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The purpose of Coastal and Offshore Navigation 3^rd Edition is to give the sailor – who has some knowledge of inshore work – a solid foundation in the arts of coastal and offshore navigation.  The approach to the subject is essentially practical, so that a yachtsman whose seafaring is done in a small sailing vessel can relate to and profit from the contents.

Considerable effort has been made to indicate the sort of accuracy that can reasonably be expected in the various facets of small craft navigation, so that the reader can sensibly evaluate their results.  All the threads with which the navigator weaves his patterns are drawn together at the end of the book in chapters on passage planning and navigational practice.  These explain what you actually do, while the earlier chapters give you the knowledge and expertise with which to do it, in reality, out at sea.

 Coastal and Offshore Navigation 3^rd Edition guides you through all the techniques you need to master - and shows you how to draw them together in practice to ensure a smooth trip and safe landfall.

 Includes:

• A review of the basic arts of navigation
• How to predict the tide - and make it work for you
• How to keep a realistic check on your navigational accuracy and modify your tactics accordingly
• Safe and constructive use of electronic aids to navigation
• Passage planning for an enjoyable, satisfying voyage
• Passage making: a systematic, no-nonsense approach

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Cunliffe is one of Britain's leading authorities on yacht navigation. He is an RYA instructor Examiner and has worked as a consultant for US Sailing. Aside from professional seafaring, cruising his own yachts has taken him from the Caribbean to Russia and from Rio to Greenland. Having taught navigation through the electronic revolution, his grasp of modern techniques is unusually well-balanced. He currently sails a traditional 40-foot cutter built of composite materials in North America.

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In Tom Cunliffe's words, GPS navigation has come of age with the chart plotter, but the basics remain as they always have been.

Coastal and Offshore Navigation delivers a solid foundation in the art and science of not only knowing where you are, but also plotting the route to your destination, safely and without fuss. Tom guides you through the theory to be mastered, and shows how to piece the picture together in practice to ensure a smooth trip and a safe landfall.

A review of the basic arts of navigation.

How to predict the tide and make it work for you.

How to keep a realistic check on your navigational accuracy and modify your tactics accordingly.

An analysis of the vital relationship between the fix and the estimated position.

Safe and constructive use of electronic aids to navigation.

Passage planning for an enjoyable, satisfying voyage.

Passage making a systematic, no-nonsense approach.

Discover what the modern yacht navigator needs to know for stress-free work along the coast and out of sight of land.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470753900
• ISBN 13: 9780470753903
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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