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The Weekend Navigator, 2nd Edition
Read what the the U.S. Power Squadron and the U.S. Coast Guard trust as the definitive authority on electronic navigation, now updated with the latest electronic technologies and methods
The Weekend Navigator teaches you how to navigate using today's tools and methods, including the latest technologies such as smart phones. While electronic navigation is here to stay, author Bob Sweet recognizes that they are still based on traditional charts and piloting skills, and he combines the two to pass along to you a solid understanding of all the principles of marine navigation.
In addition to its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital process of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Sweet helps you understand recent options for chartplotters, less expensive handheld GPS units, smart phones, and the navigation possibilities presented by phone apps. New to this edition is a section entitled "Ooops," which provides an insightful collection of boating accident tales resulting from common GPS and chartplotters no-nos. Using The Weekend Navigator, you can get on the water right away and learn to navigate in an afternoon with GPS; master chart-and-compass piloting while, not before, he or she departs; plot courses and fix positions on paper or electronic charts; and more.
The Weekend Navigator teaches you how to navigate using today's tools and methods, including the latest technologies such as smart phones. While electronic navigation is here to stay, author Bob Sweet recognizes that they are still based on traditional charts and piloting skills, and he combines the two to pass along to you a solid understanding of all the principles of marine navigation.
In addition to its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital process of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Sweet helps you understand recent options for chartplotters, less expensive handheld GPS units, smart phones, and the navigation possibilities presented by phone apps. New to this edition is a section entitled "Ooops," which provides an insightful collection of boating accident tales resulting from common GPS and chartplotters no-nos. Using The Weekend Navigator, you can get on the water right away and learn to navigate in an afternoon with GPS; master chart-and-compass piloting while, not before, he or she departs; plot courses and fix positions on paper or electronic charts; and more.
288 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2011
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January 11, 2021
Disclaimer: this book is best used as supplementary information and lessons. If you’re a beginner at boating, this book will not do much service or have much use as it touches upon concepts that newcomers will not understand if they’ve never spent significant time on a boat.
That being said, this book is phenomenal at demonstrating concepts and the importance of what is necessary to know while out at sea. For example, the fastest path from A to B is usually straight, yet that is rarely the case with coastal navigation and the book demonstrates why. The urgency of planning, awareness, and execution are key to safe passaging by boat. My only complaint for this book is that it’s certainly dated as shown in the devices pictured in the book. Understanding winds, tides, shoals, charting, magnetism, radioing and waypoint-to-waypoint navigation are just a few subjects the book goes over, and does so in the form of a textbook. The book reads like a textbook, but the chapters are incredibly useful.
That being said, this book is phenomenal at demonstrating concepts and the importance of what is necessary to know while out at sea. For example, the fastest path from A to B is usually straight, yet that is rarely the case with coastal navigation and the book demonstrates why. The urgency of planning, awareness, and execution are key to safe passaging by boat. My only complaint for this book is that it’s certainly dated as shown in the devices pictured in the book. Understanding winds, tides, shoals, charting, magnetism, radioing and waypoint-to-waypoint navigation are just a few subjects the book goes over, and does so in the form of a textbook. The book reads like a textbook, but the chapters are incredibly useful.
March 29, 2015
Good book. Very helpful!
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