Pencil, paper and stars the handbook of traditional and emergency navigation
Electronic navigation systems are extremely reliable but when they do fail onboard repair at sea is rarely possible. Also, their operation depends on a continuous supply of electricity. Should this fail they will stop and unexpectedly lacking the means of position finding, chart plotting and route p...
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Chichester, West Sussex Hoboken, N.J.
John Wiley & Sons
[2008]
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| Call Number : | GV 813 .B785 2008 |
Table of Contents:
- An excellent art
- Another kind of sailing
- The first navigators
- All in the mind
- Passage planning
- A home made magnetic compass
- Direction from the sun
- Direction from the stars
- Direction from the moon
- Telling the time
- Dead reckoning and estimated positions
- Coastal navigation
- Home made sextants
- Sextant corrections
- Meridian sights
- Latitude from polaris
- Longitude
- Plane sailing
- Chartmaking
- Signs of landfall
- Accuracy.