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Navigational Reading
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Price: Emphasizing the visual and graphic techniques of navigation, Boater's Bowditch is a small-boat adaptation of the preeminent navigation reference for commercial and naval sailors, the U.S. government's American Practical Navigator ("Bowditch" for short, after the editor and writer of the first edition published in 1802). With hundreds of diagrams and photographs, this handy book is an indispensable resource for beginning and advanced navigators. It explains in plain English all the basic and most practical concepts and techniques used by professional navigators. It's the first truly comprehensive guide to modern navigation tools such as GPS and electronic charts.
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Price: $25.00 One will find
this book in every chart room on every U.S. Capital ship, Coast Guard and Navy
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mariner. If you are a professional mariner and don't have it... get it! Get it?
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Price: Hardcover
- 288 pages 2nd edition (June 1998) Outlines most of the techniques of piloting that are still fundamental to safe navigation even with today's electronic aids. In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, covers tides and currents and introduces the major features of LORAN and GPS.
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Price: The essentials to celestial navigation are a sextant, the current nautical almanac, and an accurate timepiece correctible to Greenwich Mean Time (Coordinated Universal Time.) Given those things and some basic instruments and charts, and of course the requisite knowledge and skills to use them, you can find your way on the trackless oceans of the world. If you lack the knowledge and skills to use the above instruments and objects, you can learn to use them, with the application of the necessary dilligence and intelligence, in either of two volumes, this one and the 'American Practical Navigator.' The latter comes in two volumes, and is published by the U.S. government (Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center). Both volumes are used as textbooks by the United States Naval Academy and the United States Power Squadrons, to teach celestial navigation. I am a full certificate member of the latter organization.
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Price: Part history of navigation and part hands-on project guide for the navigationally fascinated, this unique book includes complete history, step-by-step building instructions, and full-size patterns for 18 historic navigational tools that can be built easily and inexpensively by anyone. Projects include the kamal, astrolabe, quadrant, cross staff, back staff, noctural, sundial, sun compass, dry card compass, pelorus, traverse board, weatherglass, and sextant with vernier.
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Price: $135.00
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Price: $35.00
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of Navigation : With Problems in Practical Work and Complete Tables This book is primarily a textbook, highly technical and full of detailed information for the experienced skipper/navigator. If you lean toward deepwater cruising it's a must. If you collect classics it's a must.
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This navigational sourcebook lists the coordinates of major lights and buoys and provides detailed descriptions of lights, sound signals, and structures to help boaters recognize them by day or night. Ideal for programming GPS receivers, it lists waypoints alphabetically and groups them geographically under major channels and harbor approaches.
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Price: $21.95 Celestial Navigation
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Price: $24.95 Captain Jack I. Davis has done it again! He has written yet another, very easy to understand, instructional navigation book. As in his first book, Captain Jack's Basic Navigation, this book is filled with knowledge, new sea stories and more humorous anecdotes. Using the same highly successful format of his first book, Captain Jack takes the reader through each phase of navigation by first explaining, in detail, the steps needed to complete each phase. This is followed by a list of questions to answer, using your new found knowledge. After you have completed the questions, you can check your answers at the end of each chapter. All the calculations are accomplished with simple, grade school math using an inexpensive calculator and basic plotting tools.
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Price: $35.00 Using the successful programmed learning format that proved so effective in his coastal navigation coursebook, Gerry Smith teaches the reader the basic skills needed to take sun sights and shows him how to use tables to find a position. The reader is able to evaluate performance immediately and will benefit from the pattern adopted throughout: learn, test, assess, relearn, progress.
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Price: There is a deep mystery and profound satisfaction to finding one's position on earth by reference to the sun and stars. That is why, Loran and GPS notwithstanding, there will always be room on a boater's shelf for a manual of celestial navigation--especially one so unintimidating as this. Since 1967, Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen has been the best-known, best-loved primer on the subject. It successfully teachers sailors who have been demoralized by bigger, more expensive books.
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