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PRACTICAL NAVIGATION FOR THE MODERN BOAT OWNER.By Pat Manley. Hardcover, 174mm x 217mm, 182 pages, colour photos.
The modern sailor is an electronic navigator. New boats come stacked with GPS, chartplotters and radar, on a bewildering array of screens and displays. This book teaches you how to navigate using these devices.
Practical Navigation for the Modern Boat Owner leads you through all the aspects of navigation of your boat in a logical order. It uses a unique combination of modern and traditional disciplines to boat navigation. This practical approach ensures that although modern electronic methods remain at the forefront, readers will never lack in knowledge to navigate their boat safely in any circumstance.
Topics include:
A website featuring simulators accompanies this book adding a further dimension to an all-inclusive book: sailors can test their skills whilst they are learning. www.wileynautical.com/practicalnavigation
NZ$45.00 + Delivery
COASTAL NAVIGATION.By Jeff Toghill. Pbk, 135mm x 215mm, 120 pages, monochrome drawings.
Completely revised and updated, with a new chapter on advances in eletronic navigation, this is the essential handbook for anyone who wishes to learn the principles of small-boat navigation. Jeff Toghill provides comprehensive information accompanied by numerous charts and more than 100 diagrams and photographs. Practical and easy to follow, Coastal navigation is an indispensable guide for even the most inexperienced sailor.
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NZ$30.00 + Delivery
HOW TO READ A NAUTICAL CHART, A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts.By Nigel Calder. Pbk, 215mm x 275mm, 237 pages. Full colour and monochrome photographs and drawings.
The author has impeccable credentials for writing a technical marine book and in this publication he answers hundreds of questions to do with the interpretation, production and use of charts.
Charts are still the most fundamental navigational tool; electronic charts are merely digital versions of their paper alternatives and subject therefore to all of the same factors for reading and interpreting them. The text is very well illustrated with full colour drawings and chart extracts, and also photographs of buoys and other marine features. The book is written and illustrated to UK and US practices, however for practical purposes the book may as well be regarded as an unsurpassed explanation for all hydrographic authorities using International Standard practice.
Specifically covered by the explanations are the following:
NZ$36.00 + delivery.
THE WEEKEND NAVIGATOR, Simple Boat Navigation with GPS and Electronics.By Bob Sweet. Pbk, 215mm x 275mm, 262 pages, full colour illustrations with CD RoM provided for navigation practice.
Using modern electronic navigation tools, getting from place to place safely has never been easier. There has been an explosion in pleasure boat navigation that sees small craft venturing further than before, out of confined harbour environments into coastal waters. This growth has also applied to blue water navigation, with Pacific Island voyaging and the live-aboard lifestyle attracting far greater numbers than 20 years ago, in the era of compass and sextant fixing.
This book describes in a thoroughly practical, step-by-step manner how perfect navigation skills while you enjoy your leisure hours afloat using commonplace, electronic tools. Included are:
A Maptech CD is provided with practice navigation to consolidate the narrative.
At the price we have to recommend this as the best value learning package for inshore navigators. The inclusion of the CD is a major bonus. Whilst the book is American and endorsed by the US Power Squadrons for their navigation courses, the operations of modern electronics are unrelated to the geography of the lesson material; this book will "work" just as well in the Antipodes as anywhere else in the world!
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMPASS CORRECTIONBy George H Reid. Pbk, 155mm x 235mm, 69 pages, monochrome drawings and photographs.
In this handy little book George Reid describes the causes of compass error (variation, deviation, misalignment, lazy compass, frozen compass, and intermittent deviation). Beinning with the absolute basics of magnetism, he then discusses how to apply compass error to find your true course and how to measure error buy taking bearings - inland and offshore.
For celestial bearing Capt. Reid has designed two 'quick and easy' tools: a Compass Corrector for bearings on the sun and a Skyclock for bearings on Polaris. Capt. Reid also provides step by step instructions on how to swing ship, set up deviation tables and adjust compasses.
NZ$18.00 + Delivery
SUPERYACHT MASTER.By Robert Avis. Pbk, 172mm x 245mm, 218 pages, full colour illustrations and drawings.
Superyacht Master covers the requirements of the navigation and radar modules of the Officer of the Watch (Yachts) Certificates required for captains and crew of commercial yachts over 24m and under 3,000 tons. It is an invaluable reference book for those undertaking a deck career in the superyacht industry or in similar sized commercial craft.
The late Robert Avis had more than 350,000 miles at sea and command experience of eleven warships and six superyachts up to 75m. He regularly taught navigation and radar at this level both in the UK and overseas, and prepared students for their oral exams. He is also the author of Using Radar.
NZ$90.00 + delivery.
ILLUSTRATED NAVIGATION.
By Ivar Dedekam. Pbk, 173mm x 241mm, 84 pages, full colour illustrations, photos and drawings.
This beautifully illustrated manual teaches you how to navigate in the traditional way using compass, log and plotter and also how to navigate by means of electronic aids like GPS, radar and chartplotter. In addition, you will also learn some basic celestial navigation using the sun and stars to obtain your position using sextant, almanacs, tables and a watch.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
COASTAL NAVIGATION CD.
By Mike Scanlan. E-book PDF format. 307 pages.
This is an e-book, a complete book published in electronic form. The book was originally published by the former Reed Publishing (Raupo), but this edition has been brought fully up to date, and re-published in PDF.
In this format the book can be read directly from your computer screen using Adobe Acrobat* or Adobe Reader* or using the Reader's 'print' command and your own printer. Individual pages or the entire book can be read from the printed page. If Adobe Acrobat or Reader is already installed on your computer, the book should open automatically after inserting the CD in the disk drive. If your computer does not have the Reader installed , the latest version of this program is also included on this CD and instructions for installing it are included in the 'Read me First' document on the CD.
The book is formatted into 307 pages, complete with a Contents also able to be viewed as on-screen bookmarks. Eleven fully-illustrated chapters, and an appendix, each with numerous worked examples, fully describe all aspects and techniques of coastal navigation. A comprehensive glossary of coastal navigational terms is also included.
The book is a companion to Celestial Navigation, also available as an e-book.
NZ$20.00 + delivery.
ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION CD.
By Mike Scanlan. E-book PDF format. 187 pages.
This is an e-book, a complete book published in electronic form. The book was originally published by the former Reed Publishing (Raupo), but this edition has been brought fully up to date, and re-published in PDF.
In this format the book can be read directly from your computer screen using Adobe Acrobat* or Adobe Reader* or using the Reader's 'print' command and your own printer. Individual pages or the entire book can be read from the printed page. If Adobe Acrobat or Reader is already installed on your computer, the book should open automatically after inserting the CD in the disk drive. If your computer does not have the Reader installed , the latest version of this program is also included on this CD and instructions for installing it are included in the 'Read me First' document on the CD.
The book is formatted into 187 pages, complete with a Contents also able to be viewed as on-screen bookmarks and links. Four chapters with coloured illustrations and hypertext links to appropriate Internet websites, fully describe all aspects and techniques of navigation using radar, GPS and electronic charts. A comprehensive glossary of navigational terms is also included.
The book is a companion to Celestial Navigation and Coastal Navigation also available as an e-book.
NZ$20.00 + delivery.
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