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Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide

by Hopkinson, Sara

Book: £14.99 BUY BOOK
Published:14th March 2024
Type:Paperback & E-Book
Pages:96
Edition:4th
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Description

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. 

"This book is unreservedly recommended for newcomers to boating and for students on RYA courses: it is one of the very best.” Cruising Association; June 2020

“I gave a copy to a dinghy sailor who had very little navigation knowledge and, within an hour or so, she felt confident enough to do the basics to get a boat from A to B using chart navigation. A good first introduction to navigation." Sailing Today

"This excellent book has the best explanation of accessing your course to steer I’ve ever read... simple checklist of getting aboard, preparing for a passage and setting off – simple, clear and impossible to misinterpret. Her no-nonsense approach will be a huge benefit to the novice sailor grappling at home with training, but it will also be welcomed by the harassed skipper, a little rusty from winter lay-up, who just wants a quick reminder of what he’s supposed to be doing.  I will keep a copy aboard myself." Yachting Monthly

ISBN:9781912621729
Illustrations:122 diagrams
Dimensions:240 x 170 mm
Foreign Rights Sold:German
Spanish
Portugese

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