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Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition

David Burch

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  • 288 sidor
  • 2008

Find Your Way at Sea, No Matter What

inherently interesting and fun to read . . . provides the clearest understanding of general navigation principles we've seen yet.--boatu.s.

Thorough and authoritative.--sea kayaker

a definitive work of instant appeal to seamen of all levels of experience.--the navigation foundation

Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether youre safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have. Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a pair of sunglasses, Burch explains how to make use of all available means--from the ancient skills of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead--to calculate speed, direction, latitude, and longitude and to perform all aspects of piloting and dead reckoning. Learn how to

  • Steer by sun, stars, wind, and swells
  • Estimate current and leeway
  • Improvise your own knotmeter or plumb-bob sextant
  • Find the sun in a fogbank
  • Estimate latitude with a plate and a knotted string
  • And more vital information
  • Författare: David Burch
  • Illustratör: unspecified 130 Illustrations
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780071481847
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-10-16
  • Förlag: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press