This is a book about practical navigation - packed with practical ways to make navigation safer, easier and better. It is a book for anyone - whether driving a power boat or sailing a yacht. And the techniques cover both electronic as well as visual navigation.
This book starts where others finish. Once you have the important basics of navigation, you'll want to see how to translate these into practical navigation techniques to use when planning before going to sea and once you're out there.
50 Ways to Improve Your Navigation distils Dag Pike's experience gained from over 50 years of navigating a whole range of craft from high speed power boats and lifeboats to ships and sailing boats. Written by one of the most experienced navigators in the world, it is your passport to practical navigation techniques that will get you safely to your destination whether in fine weather or foul.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- 1 Making a landfall – angle of approach
- 2 Deviating to shorten the distance between marks
- 3 The longer route can be the quickest
- 4 The effect of wind on the tides
- 5 Judging sea conditions
- 6 Offsetting the course in order to be sure
- 7 Safety margins
- 8 Fuel and navigation
- 9 Adding up the clues
- 10 Position fixing from sea conditions
- 11 Estimating your position
- 12 Transit bearings
- 13 Steering bias
- 14 Magnetic or true?
- 15 Second stage navigation
- 16 Conspicuous marks
- 17 Local knowledge
- 18 Checking the plotted course
- 19 Customising the charts
- 20 Using position lines
- 21 Looking at alternatives
- 22 Using depth when making a landfall
- 23 Depth warnings and shoals
- 24 Depth and distance off
- 25 The effect of depth on sea conditions
- 26 Taking short cuts
- 27 Distance on the electronic chart
- 28 Getting the scale right
- 29 GPS accuracy
- 30 Knowing where you are
- 31 Waypoint selection and use
- 32 When your GPS goes down
- 33 How accurate is the radar?
- 34 Rounding a headland on radar
- 35 Radar overlays
- 36 What the radar cannot see
- 37 Change of bearing
- 38 Which radar scale to use
- 39 Lost in the clutter
- 40 Avoiding the big ships
- 41 See and be seen
- 42 Running on autopilot
- 43 Speed in the fog
- 44 Reflections and visibility
- 45 Finding a buoy in fog
- 46 Assessing harbour entrances
- 47 Finding an anchorage
- 48 Finding a harbour entrance
- 49 Electronic charts for harbour navigation
- 50 Entering a harbour at night
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