By David Burch
Find Your method at Sea, regardless of What
“Inherently fascinating and enjoyable to learn . . . offers the clearest knowing of basic navigation rules we have seen yet.”--BoatU.S.
“Thorough and authoritative.”--Sea Kayaker
“A definitive paintings of quick entice seamen of all degrees of experience.”--The Navigation Foundation
Every sailor is aware that tools can fail. issues get rainy, holiday, fall overboard. no matter if you’re secure in your boat or drifting in a existence raft, permit David Burch assist you to locate your manner it doesn't matter what navigational apparatus you might have. usually counting on universal fabrics like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a couple of sun shades, Burch explains find out how to utilize all to be had means--from the traditional talents of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead--to calculate velocity, course, range, and longitude and to accomplish all facets of piloting and useless reckoning. find out how to
- Steer via solar, stars, wind, and swells
- Estimate present and leeway
- Improvise your personal knotmeter or plumb-bob sextant
- Find the solar in a fogbank
- Estimate range with a plate and a knotted string
- And extra very important information
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