The Adlard Coles Book of Navigation

by Melanie Bartlett

Overview

The Adlard Coles Book of Navigation is the perfect reference for anyone following an RYA navigation course, from Day Skipper through to Yachtmaster Offshore and for any seafarer requiring a knowledge of navigation. This highly practical book explains everything the reader needs to know to navigate a yacht or motorboat from one port to another safely and accurately. Using clear diagrams, worked examples and colour photographs throughout, Tim Bartlett explains each stage of navigation, including electronic navigation.

'Excellent bestselling reference...you should be able to do it once you've read this!' Kelvin Hughes

''Particularly useful for readers with little navigational experience...will also appeal to anyone studying for navigational qualifications.'
The Nautical Magazine

'A must-have for any coastal and offshore yachtsman.'
Yachting Monthly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408156056
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/29/2013
Series:	Adlard Coles Book of
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Tim Bartlett began sailing as a child on the Thames near his parents' home. After teaching sailing in commercial sailing schools he became a full time yacht skipper at the Island Cruising Club. After five years running his own engineering company he became technical editor of Motor Boat and Yachting. Tim Bartlett has written several nautical books including the bestselling Adlard Coles Book of Diesel Engines and Adlard Coles Book of Outboard Motors.
Mel Bartlett learned to sail as a child on the Thames, and then followed a varied career that included serving with the Royal Navy, working as a yacht skipper at the Island Cruising Club, running an engineering business in Cornwall, and ten years as Technical Editor of Motor Boat and Yachting.

Table of Contents

Foreword$dthe author     iv
Foreword   Bill Anderson     v
Acknowledgements     vi
Introduction     1
Charts and the Real World     3
Latitude and longitude
Charts
Measuring Direction and Distance     15
Measuring distance at sea
Measuring distance on the chart
Measuring direction at sea
Measuring direction on the chart
Electronic Navigation Equipment     35
Echo sounders
Satnav
Waypoint navigation
Basic navigation functions
Chart plotters
Position Fixing     51
Compass bearings
Postion lines by range
Position lines by depth
Mixed fixes
Running fixes
The simplest fix of all
Tides     64
The causes of tide
Tide levels and datums
Tide tables
Tidal height examples
Finding the height required
The effect of weather
Rule of twelfths
Tidal anomalies
Tidal streams
Tidal stream atlases
Tidal stream example
Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals     85
The range of a light
Buoys and beacons
Fog signals
Estimating Position and Shaping a Course     92
Allowing for wind
Allowing for tidal streams
Chartwork examples
Shaping a course
Radar     106
How radar works
Basic operation
Interpreting the picture
Navigating by radar
Radar for collision avoidance
Pilotage     123
Buoy-hopping
Leading lines
Clearinglines
Sectored lights
Soundings
Head-up radar
North-up radar
Eyeballing
Harbour regulations and byelaws
Planning pilotage
Pilotage in practice
Passage-making     137
Cruise planning factors
Navigation on passage - traditional methods under sail/at low speed
Navigation on passage - traditional methods at high speed
Using electronics
Getting lost, and 'finding yourself'
Landfalls
Fog
Do I need to navigate?
Appendix     164
Index     168