Navigation category: 129 books
by Sara Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Navigators have only 2 questions: Where am I? Where do I go now? This book shows the simplest way to answer these questions. It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. This bestselling book has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is...
Celestial Navigation
Learn How to Master One of the Oldest Mariner's Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Celestial navigation is one of the oldest of the mariner’s arts – and one of the most awe-inspiring. It is also essential for every ocean sailor who wants to be able to fix his position should the GPS fail. Tom Cunliffe shows you how to master the art in easy stages. Within a few pages you’ll...
Navigation Rules and Regulations Handbook
International—Inland
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook you need to own. Included are all of the official government rules and regulations that must be followed by anyone out on the water. This book will prepare you for head-on situations, avoiding collisions, using, distress signals, and will inform you...
Navigation
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Naviguer consiste, au sens originel, à se déplacer ou à voyager sur l'eau. Par extension logique, ce terme qualifie également l'art et la science de conduire un navire. Ultérieurement, la notion de navigation s'est étendue aux domaines aérien, terrestre et spatial. Nul ne saura peut-être jamais...
The Complete Yachtmaster
Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 9th edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster students as well as skippers of all levels of experience.
In this fully revised and up-to-date 9th edition, Tom Cunliffe brings together all the essentials...
Dag Pike's Cruising Under Power
The Practicalities of Cruising
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The aim of this book is to enable novices to
cruise safely and enjoyably. It will cover the preparations needed before
undertaking a cruise, operating the boat under different and sometimes
challenging conditions, how to cope when things go wrong, how to conform to the
rules and regulations, and how...
by John Hairr
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Before radar, depth finders and satellite-guided navigation, long before the seafloor was charted with scientific precision, mariners relied on lighthouses to approach a coastline safely. South Carolina's history with lighthouses goes back nearly two and a half centuries. At Cape Romain, a windmill was...
by S. K. Lothrop
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Complete Ocean Skipper
Deep-water Voyaging, Navigation and Yacht Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Following on from his bestselling The Complete Day Skipper and The Complete Yachtmaster, yachting legend Tom Cunliffe turns his attentions to the third strand of the RYA syllabus. With the same hugely popular, highly practical approach, The Complete Ocean Skipper covers everything a yachtsman needs...
Hillwalking
The official handbook of the Mountain Training walking schemes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Hillwalking is an indispensable guide to the skills required for summer hill walking and is a major reference book for those who wish to lead groups in the UK and Ireland. It is the official handbook for Mountain Training's walking schemes. This fully updated third edition covers every aspect of walking...
by Richard Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
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...
Sextant
A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.
Since...
British River Navigations
Inland Cuts, Fens, Dikes, Channels and Non-tidal Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Britain's rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention supporting riverside pubs, waterways museums and a variety of places of interest, they are the country's essential arteries, connecting inland Britain...
Yachting Monthly's 200 Skipper's Tips
Instant Skills to Improve Your Seamanship
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Dip into any of the 200 tips in this handy book to make yourself a better yachtsman. They are the very best of the Skipper’s Tips from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. Each tip is a pearl of wisdom from Britain's foremost yachting writer, Tom Cunliffe. Discover practical skills that you won’t...