Celestial Navigation by H.O.249

Milligan, John E.

ISBN 10: 0870331914 / ISBN 13: 9780870331916

Verlag: Cornell Maritime Press, 2009

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0870331914I5N00

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"Any kind of boating can be fun," the author points out, "racing around the marks, or coastwise cruising where there is almost always at hand visual reference ashore from which bearings can be taken for locating one's position and thus finding one's way home. Severing these ties with land, however, offers a new kind of fun, a new kind of freedom, a freedom from dependence on land." Here is a basic beginner's book, introducing the amateur to the tools, the vocabulary, and the techniques of celestial navigation. Among the recommended tools are the H. O. 249 tables, the most widely used among amateur navigators at sea because of their simplicity. The ability to determine one's position at sea both liberates the sailor from the land and enables him to find his way to his destination. If you can read, add and subtract, understand angles, and use a protractor, you can learn to navigate in your armchair or at sea from Celestial Navigation by H. O. 249.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Celestial Navigation by H.O.249
Verlag: Cornell Maritime Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket