Description
Practical Navigation - Dag Pike. This comprehensive and authoritative guide to practical navigation draws on the author’s extensive experience of leisure cruising and ocean racing.
Features
- Combines detailed directions on how to navigate along coasts, in harbours, at night and in bad weather with easy-to-understand technical information about the electronic tools involved in safe navigation, including radar, GPS, AIS and chartplotters.
- Key basics such as charts, buoys, lights and tides are carefully explained and illustrated with diagrams and colour photographs throughout. Practical descriptions of navigation scenarios, such as fixing a position or plotting a course, are brought to life with anecdotes and precise detail.
- An indispensable reference guide for anyone wishing to sail or motor a boat safely in any situation.
Specifications
- Author: Dag Pike
- Publisher: Imray
- ISBN: 9781846236815
- Edition: 1st
- Edition date: 2015
- Publication details: A5 Paperback