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Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide
Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible.
It has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start.
It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to be.
In a new innovation, diagrams from this book are being made available to navigation instructors to use in their own classes.
Table of Contents
Welcome to Navigation
Looking at Types of charts, Depths & heights
Giving a Latitude & longitude, Range & bearing
Finding Your GNSS, A fix, A DR position
An estimated position
Looking at General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heights
Sierra on Passage
Course to The basic plot, … so much more
The buoyage system, The plan
Passage The regulations, The navigational plan
Looking at The basics, Chart plotters
Sierra on Passage (continued)
Navigation … to sum up
Glossary
It has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start.
It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to be.
In a new innovation, diagrams from this book are being made available to navigation instructors to use in their own classes.
Table of Contents
Welcome to Navigation
Looking at Types of charts, Depths & heights
Giving a Latitude & longitude, Range & bearing
Finding Your GNSS, A fix, A DR position
An estimated position
Looking at General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heights
Sierra on Passage
Course to The basic plot, … so much more
The buoyage system, The plan
Passage The regulations, The navigational plan
Looking at The basics, Chart plotters
Sierra on Passage (continued)
Navigation … to sum up
Glossary
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First published December 19, 2005
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February 21, 2021
A book worth having in your collection
Really good book in conjunction for the day skippers course. Step by step with a glossary for reference, plus an exam at the end. Very helpful.
Really good book in conjunction for the day skippers course. Step by step with a glossary for reference, plus an exam at the end. Very helpful.
December 1, 2025
very good and thorough book especially for the beginners
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