Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional
An indispensable myth-busting guide to the reality of navigation.

All boaters, whether under sail or under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water—both to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost as a black art—complicated, full of tricky math, and with alien concepts to get your head around.

"Mr. Stress-Free" having in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for all—with minimum stress.

The book covers the basic introductory elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams, quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes—giving access to explanatory videos—are all features that have been much appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.

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Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional
An indispensable myth-busting guide to the reality of navigation.

All boaters, whether under sail or under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water—both to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost as a black art—complicated, full of tricky math, and with alien concepts to get your head around.

"Mr. Stress-Free" having in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for all—with minimum stress.

The book covers the basic introductory elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams, quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes—giving access to explanatory videos—are all features that have been much appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.

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Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional

Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional

by Duncan Wells
Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional

Stress-Free Navigation: Electronic and Traditional

by Duncan Wells

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An indispensable myth-busting guide to the reality of navigation.

All boaters, whether under sail or under power, need to be able to navigate safely on the water—both to keep themselves and their crew out of trouble and to avoid endangering others. Yet navigation has often been presented almost as a black art—complicated, full of tricky math, and with alien concepts to get your head around.

"Mr. Stress-Free" having in his previous books presented techniques for sailing and motorboating in an accessible, manageable fashion, Duncan Wells now turns his attention to navigation. He makes concepts easy to understand and the practice of navigation perfectly achievable for all—with minimum stress.

The book covers the basic introductory elements clearly and simply for novices, and progresses through more advanced techniques for experienced navigators, so that there is something for everyone, whatever their skill level. Diagrams, quick-reference tables and flowcharts, explanatory step-by-step photographs, box features, top tips and QR codes—giving access to explanatory videos—are all features that have been much appreciated by readers of Duncan's other top-selling titles.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472962348
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 12/10/2019
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing school principal. He has written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and US. He is the author of the bestselling Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating (both also published by Adlard Coles Nautical), which have helped countless sailors and motorboaters learn helpful boat handling and berthing techniques. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 6

Preface 7

1 Introduction and Philosophy 9

2 Onboard 11

Parameters

Waypoints

Autohelm

Route

3 The Chart 20

Seabed

Rocks, wrecks and obstructions

Updating

Short distances and long distances

4 Position 29

Distance

Finding the position of something on a paper chart

Plotting a position on to a chart

Bearing and distance from and to

5 The Compass 39

6 Magnetic Variation and Deviation 41

What do we do with magnetic variation? Deviation

Steps taken to allow for variation and deviation

7 Fixing a Position 47

8 Tides 53

Tidal hour

Tidal diamonds and the tidal stream atlas

Computation of tidal rates

9 Leeway 67

10 Estimated Position 69

How to work out an estimated position

Projected estimated position

Advanced estimated position

Running fix

11 What if the GPS Dies? 81

12 Course to Steer 85

Course to steer in your head

13 Time Zones 93

14 Tidal Heights 95

Rule of twelfths

Using tidal information

15 Secondary Ports 102

16 Sailing 112

Points of sail

Tacking and gybing

True wind and apparent wind

Laying the windward mark

17 Aids to Navigation 117

Buoyage

Lights

Transits

18 The Collision Regulations (Colregs) 124

Who gives way to whom?

Vessel lights, day shapes and sound signals

19 Weather 131

Scenarios

What the clouds mean

Frontal systems

Buys Ballots Law

Shipping forecast

Beaufort scale

Fog

20 Pilotage 139

Key concepts

21 Passage Planning 142

Considerations for passage planning

22 Anchoring 144

Ground tackle

Five essentials of anchoring

Coding the cable

How much scope to allow

Quick tips for anchoring success

23 Safety 151

Safety equipment

Raising the alarm

Man overboard

Index 158

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