Navigation: A Newcomers Guide: Learn how to navigate at sea [Paperback]

A guide to maritime navigation for beginners.Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible.It covers all modern navigation and has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start.It explains simply how to look at charts (paper or digital), find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to.Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students.Welcome to NavigationLooking at Charts: Types of charts, Depths & heightsGiving a Position: Latitude & longitude, Range & bearingFinding Your Position: GNSS, A fix, A DR positionAn estimated positionLooking at Tides: General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heightsSierra on PassageCourse to Steer: The basic plot, & so much morePilotage: The buoyage system, The planPassage Planning: The regulations, The navigational planLooking at Electronics: The basics, Chart plottersSierra on Passage (continued)Navigation & to sum upGlossaryGB