This clear and accessible introduction to coastal navigation outlines most of the techniques of piloting that are still fundamental to safe navigation even with modern electronic aids.
Step-by-step, the reader is guided from simple to more complex piloting solutions.
In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, the author covers tides and currents and explains how to use LORAN C and GPS.
There are numerous illustrations throughout the text and practice problems at the end of each chapter.
Key Advantages: fully updated new edition, perfect for sail and power, clear layout and instructions, comprehensive overage of all aspects of coastal navigation, review questions and answers, and suitable for self-study and Coast Guard or other similar courses.
About the Author: Frank J.
Larkin is a Master Mariner with some 30 years of boating experience.
He is an instructor in boating safety and coastal navigation and was until recently District Staff Officer-Aids to Navigation with the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
| Advantages | Fully updated new edition perfect for sail and power clear layout and instructions comprehensive overage of all aspects of coastal navigation review questions and answers and suitable for selfstudy and |
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| Author | Frank |
Sheridan House Basic coastal navigation: an introduction to piloting for sail and power, hardcover/frank j. larkin
