Adlard Coles, 2003. — 283 p. Superyacht Master covers the requirements of the navigation and radar modules for the Officer of the Watch (Yachts) and the Master (Yachts) Certificates required for captains and crew of commercial yachts over 24m and under 3,000 tons. It is the only book written specifically for these modules and will be required reading for all those undertaking a...
Third Edition. — Arundel, West Sussex: Femhurst Books, 2001. — 97 p. — ISBN: 1-898660-71-9. Radar is the ultimate in electronic navigation aids. Other equipment may help you find your way across open water, but only radar will see you safely through a thick fog, showing you the ships that may run you down, the rocks that you are trying to avoid, or the buoys that mark the...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0062279354. In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of...
Third edition. — London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7136-8939-6. We all have to be navigators since navigation is the sort of science or even art of controlling the travel. As soon as we start learning how to walk, at the same time we start learning how to navigate properly. For sure, we all start from the very simple journeys where we are able to see...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. — 179 p. The Book of Navigation is the perfect reference 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 color photographs throughout, Tim Bartlett...
Fernhurst Books, 2018. — 200 p. We all rely on charts to navigate at sea – but are we missing essential information? A mass of data is included on each chart and deciphering the many symbols and abbreviations can be complicated. The accuracy of some charted depths can be trusted entirely while others should be treated with caution. This book will tell you where to find and how...
Fernhurst Books, 2018. — 200 p. We all rely on charts to navigate at sea – but are we missing essential information? A mass of data is included on each chart and deciphering the many symbols and abbreviations can be complicated. The accuracy of some charted depths can be trusted entirely while others should be treated with caution. This book will tell you where to find and how...
New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0-67950-603-9. Bowditch for Yachtsmen: Piloting contains the best and most useful piloting information by Nathaniel Bowditch, concentrating solely on information that will be useful to the skippers of small vessels, sail or power. Since the early 1800s, the word "Bowditch" has been synonymous with sensible and...
Morgans Technical Books, 1992. — 240 p. This book was written at the request of the Captain, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth who gave full co-operation in its preparation.Scope of the BookThe book is designed to teach those theoretical aspects of coastal navigation that need to be acquired before practical chartwork can be undertaken.The initial sections cover the...
New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977. — 214 p. — ISBN: 0-44221-142-2. Shoreline and Sextant provides a full range of proven, practical techniques of piloting — the art of navigating within sight of land. Designed to help the sailor navigate the most difficult straits with confidence, it shows how to meet the challenges that sailing offers, without expensive gadgets...
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008. — 387 p. Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether you’re safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have. Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a...
The Magmillan Co, 1964. — 228 p. Marine Gyro-Compasses and Automatic Pilots, A Handbook for Merchant Navy Officers: Volume Two, Automatic Pilots is a reference book describing automatic pilots and ancillary equipment that are normally used in British Merchant Ships. This handbook discusses the uses, types, and advantages of automatic steering, including the different kinds of...
McGraw-Hill International Marine, 2012. — 272 p. How to Read a Nautical Chart is the second edition of a well known guide, focused on how to read a paper or electronic chart and understand the significance of the all information contained in it. The book is divided into two parts.- Part 1 deals with theoretical and background information underlying the construction of charts,...
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008. — 18 p. Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical chartsNautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them. But without a key to the symbology, a chart can be bewildering. Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating...
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1988. — 139 p. When you start sailing, you’ll navigate by looking where you want to go, and going there. Some people spend their whole sailing careers that way. But it’s a good idea to learn at least basic navigation— to be able to read a chart, plot a course and steer accurately by compass. It’s easy to learn, and you don’t need much in the way...
London: Cassell, 1979. — 132 p. — ISBN13: 978-0304304516. This book, with its emphasis on the practical aspects of yacht navigation, will help the navigator to travel with confidence across any ocean by using the sun or stars. It is intended both for the beginner and for the yachtsman with some knowledge and experience. The first part of the book covers coastal position finding...
U.S. Sailing Association, 1999. — 123 p. Navigation is the science of establishing your position and managing your yacht's progress with a minimum of risk and a maximum of enjoyment. Coastal Navigation's visual layout, full of graphs, charts and diagrams, covers chartwork, aids to navigation, tidal heights, tidal currents, estimating your position, electronic navigation aids,...
Naval Institute Press, 2004. — 462 p. This updated edition is an invaluable reference tome that follows a 78-year history of providing aid to navigators the world over.This 15th publication elucidates on piloting, current sailing methods, radio navigation. electronic charts, the Global Positioning System and bathymetric, Doppler and polar navigation, as well as celestial and...
Hearst Books, 1983. — 206 p. This practical handbook covers all the techniques of navigation that mostyachtsmen are likely to need in order to conduct their vessels from one place toanother safely and accurately. It will be valuable to beginners who are learningabout the techniques of navigation, whether at home or in the classroom, andstill serve as a useful source of...
EZ Celestial LLC, 2011. — 267 p. Electronic navigation has not changed the principles of navigation but it has changed the tools”, a phrase repeated frequently throughout this book.What if you could take a voyage with an ancient mariner and have him teach you the navigation skills he has acquired over a lifetime of sailing? Now you can. Come along with Nick de Munnik as he...
Fernhurst Books, 2017. — 88 p. Today, yachts are often equipped with radar, GPS, chart plotters, AIS, etc. This equipment has also become much more reliable, making it possible to make long offshore passages without a great knowledge of navigation. However, such equipment can be set up wrongly, interpreted incorrectly, malfunction or lose power. In these circumstances,...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. — 434 p. This book is about our three-thousand-year-long journey from navigational infancy (setting out from a harbor in a sailing craft, navigating by the Pole Star and landmarks) to maturity (setting out from Times Square in a cab, navigating by GPS). It describes not only the astounding feats of seamanship and of determination in...
W. W. Norton, 1972. — 324 p. A guide for the amateur yachtsman that examines navigational problems and procedures as well as recent advances in piloting and plotting
Shirebooks, 2016. — 80 p. With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of...
Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, 1986. — 135 p. If recent years a number of schools and colleges have introduced navigation into their curricula because of the subject's broad educational value, and the examining bodies for the General Certificate of Education and the Scottish Certificate of Education have been setting examination papers in navigation for some considerable time.A set...
Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd, 1980 — 240 p. The object of this manual is to help all yachtsmen (and yachtswomen) obtain an understanding of the basic principles of navigation, chartwork, pilotage, astronavigation, stability, meteorology, and modern electronic navigation instruments. It sets out simply and clearly, with many illustrations, the basic requirements, so that...
Reeds, 2020. — 81 p. — ISBN: 9781472978578. With tables devised by practical ocean navigators, the Reeds Astro Navigation Tables is the established annual resource of astro-navigation data for yachtsmen, giving all the information necessary to navigate by the sun, moon, stars and planets. Together with a sextant, this book will enable sailors to navigate confidently and safely...
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 1993. — 278 p. — ISBN: 0924486392. After years of experience piloting boats and teaching piloting to many first-time and experienced boaters, I am amazed at the general lack of nautical knowledge, especially piloting skills. When I bought my first boat, the only instruction I had was how to operate the engine and steer the boat. Off I went with...
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2003. — 299 p. — ISBN: 1574091697. We are living in an age where a single idea can change traditional methods, transform whole industries overnight, and open the door to possibilities that were beyond our dreams only a short time ago. Such is the case with the Global Positioning System (GPS). GPS has trans-lormed navigation. Today, with an...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2008. — 201 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-470-51613-3. The methods of navigation used by the modern boat owner have changed quite rapidly from the traditional methods still currently taught. This doesn’t make the old methods wrong; it just means that the emphasis has changed. With GPS used in many cars, the level of computer skills of the general public...
Camden, ME: International Marine Publications Company, 1975. — 203 p. — ISBN: 0-87742-056-4. Everyone who embarks in a boat, no matter the size, employs coastal navigation in one form or another. In some cases, seat-of-the-pants piloting is all that is necessary; in other cases, only careful attention to the details of scientific piloting will get you there and back with a...
Leisure Pr., 1987. — 168 p. This book is the first step in a voyage that will last you the rest of your life. It is a gift from a group of dedicated sailing professionals who have committed their lives to sharing their art, their skill, and their passion for this wonderful activity. Content: Sailing - Preparing to sail Points of Sail Maneuvering
Zagreb: More Magazine, 2019. — 123 p. This is the fourteenth booklet for English-speaking sailors published by More Magazine, the leading Croatian nautical publication, intended to provide help and advice to those sailing the Croatian Adriatic and guide visitors around its islands and bays, from Savudrija to Dubrovnik. Information, charters, regulations, marinas. The Western...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 403 p. The Reeds Western Almanac covers the coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Wales, Western Scotland, Ireland or Western England.Completely updated for 2024, it offers ready access to essential navigation...
New York, NY: David McKay Company, 1978. — 205 p. — ISBN: 0-679-50807-4. This is a complete manual on how to navigate any type of small vessel coastwise and across the sea in today's circumstances. It is a modern book for modern boating people who want to learn fast by means of clear diagrams and photographs, which are supported by a comprehensive text. Two-color illustrations...
Адмирал, 2018. — 120 с. — (Мореходная астрономия). — ISBN 978-5-923080-46-9. В этой книге астронавигация освещается со стороны, наиболее адаптированной для яхтсменов. Предлагается два уровня понимания: начальный и для квалифицированных астронавигаторов. Предисловие (ведение в астронавигацию). Астроюниор. Простейшие инструменты. Определение координат места и ДК. Примеры задач...
Киев: Правый галс, 2013. — 132 с. — ISBN13: 978-617-7157-02-0. Слово «навигация» означает просто мореплавание, которое для древних было даже важнее самой жизни. Необходимость заставляла наших предков покидать надежный берег и бросаться в кажущиеся безбрежными просторы. Сейчас таких экстремалов сильно поубавилось в количестве — каждый, отплывающий в море за приключениями, уверен...
М.: Пищевая промышленность, 1979. – 319 с. Рассмотрены основы навигации и лоции: даны теоретические обоснования и практические приемы ведения графического счисления и определения места судна в море основными визуальными и радионавигационными способами. Специальные разделы посвящены особенностям навигации в особых условиях, рассмотрено судовождение на промысле. Описаны средства...
М.: Пищевая промышленность, 1979. — 319 с. Рассмотрены основы навигации и лоции: даны теоретические обоснования и практические приемы ведения графического счисления и определения места судна в море основными визуальными и радионавигационными способами. Специальные разделы посвящены особенностям навигации в особых условиях, рассмотрено судовождение на промысле. Описаны средства...
М.: Пищевая промышленность, 1979. – 319 с. Рассмотрены основы навигации и лоции: даны теоретические обоснования и практические приемы ведения графического счисления и определения места судна в море основными визуальными и радионавигационными способами. Специальные разделы посвящены особенностям навигации в особых условиях, рассмотрено судовождение на промысле. Описаны средства...
СПб.: Лань, 1997. — 512 с. В учебнике на современном уровне изложены следующие теоретические и прикладные разделы морской навигации: основы навигации и морской картографии; современные методы счисления пути судна, использование абсолютных и относительных лагов; визуальные методы определения места; применение РТС, включая использование спутниковых систем и электронных карт,...
СмартБук, 2009. — 193 с. Владельцы современных яхт и катеров не всегда представляют себе способы навигации вообще и электронной навигации в частности. В то время как современный моряк — это электронный навигатор. Современные лодки продаются оснащенными GPS, карт-плоттерами и радарами с большим количеством различных дисплеев. Эта книга учит вас навигации с помощью таких...
Учебное пособие. — М.: Аванпорт, 2011. — 136 с. Предназначено для яхтенных капитанов, штурманов и рулевых, не имеющих предварительной подготовки в области гидрометеорологического обеспечения яхтинга. Полезно для широкого круга судоводителей прогулочных судов.
Научно-популярное издание. — Л.: Судостроение, 1988. — 176 с.: ил. — (Научно-популярная библиотека школьника). — ISBN 5-7355-0010-4. Впервые в популярной форме описаны устройства и основные навигационные приборы, которыми оснащено современное судно. Кратко освещены вопросы автоматизации судовождения и перспективы навигационного приборостроения. Для старшеклассников, выбирающих...
Научно-популярное издание. — Л.: Судостроение, 1988. — 176 с.: ил. — (Научно-популярная библиотека школьника). — ISBN: 5-7355-0010-4. Впервые в популярной форме описаны устройства и основные навигационные приборы, которыми оснащено современное судно. Кратко освещены вопросы автоматизации судовождения и перспективы навигационного приборостроения. Для старшеклассников, выбирающих...
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