Illustrated Navigation: Conventional, Digital & Celestial Navigation (Illustrated Nautical Manuals Guide 2)

As we speak, yachts are sometimes geared up with radar, GPS, chart plotters, AIS, and so on. This tools has additionally turn into way more dependable, making it doable to make lengthy offshore passages with out a nice data of navigation. Nonetheless, such tools will be arrange wrongly, interpreted incorrectly, malfunction or lose energy. In these circumstances, data of conventional navigation can turn into extraordinarily necessary. This e-book will train you easy methods to navigate within the conventional approach utilizing compass, log and plotter; and in addition easy methods to navigate utilizing digital aids like GPS, radar and chart plotter. As well as, you’ll study some primary celestial navigation utilizing the solar and stars to acquire your place utilizing sextant, almanacs, tables and a watch. Every technique of navigation is defined alongside detailed illustrations and examples, combining to make an easy and easy-to-follow information. As a result of design of the e-book, we’ve got needed to limit the format of the book to PDF model which can lead to providing you with a extra restricted studying expertise. For that reason, we might not advocate viewing it on very small screens.