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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 ideal instant reference 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, th

Trade Review
An aide-memoire for everyone on board. Weatherproof and able to lay flat. * Yachting Monthly *

Table of Contents
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

Skippers Cockpit Navigation Guide

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    A Spiral bound by Rene Westerhuis

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      Publisher Adlard Coles Nautical
      Published 20 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9781472990648
      978-1472990648
      ISBN-10 1472990641
      Also in:
      Navigation and seamanship

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 ideal instant reference 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, th

      Trade Review
      An aide-memoire for everyone on board. Weatherproof and able to lay flat. * Yachting Monthly *

      Table of Contents
      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

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