50 Ways to Improve Your Navigation.

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....

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Main Author: Pike, Dag
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Series:50 Ways to Improve Your.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 20 Using position lines21 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. 
505 8 |a 41 See and be seen42 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; By the Same Author page; eCopyright. 
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