Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

Name: Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781472990648
Price: 84.99 NZD
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By Rene Westerhuis

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Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide by Rene Westerhuis is an essential resource for sailors and maritime enthusiasts, offering practical navigation techniques. The book focuses on real-world applications, providing tips and advice for effective navigation in various sea conditions. It's written to be accessible and quick to reference, making it an ideal companion for both novice and experienced skippers looking for concise, cockpit-friendly instructions.
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Format: Spiral bound

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Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

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You might enjoy this book if you're a sailing enthusiast eager to master navigation skills with practical, on-the-go guidance. It's ideal for those who appreciate straightforward advice, want to boost their confidence at the helm, and are looking for a reliable companion to navigate the seas safely and efficiently.

Spiral-bound and splashproof, this ready reckoner is the ideal hands-free guide to essential navigating skills and techniques, for practical use at the wheel or chart table, or as a reference at home.

Spiral-bound and splashproof, this ready reckoner is the ideal hands-free guide to essential navigating skills and techniques, for practical use at the wheel or chart table, or as a reference at home.

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472990648

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Spiral bound

Date Published: 20 January 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Adlard Coles Nautical

Illustration: Full colour photographs and diagrams throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 238.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 24

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About the Author

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.