Skipper's Cockpit Navigation Guide

Spiral-bound and splashproof, this ready reckoner is the ideal hands-free guide to essential navigating skills and techniques, for practical use at the wheel or chart table, or as a reference at home.

Whether planning a day sail or a longer passage, at home, at the wheel or at the chart table, the Skipper’s Cockpit Navigation Guide is the perfect at-a-glance handbook for all skippers and crew. It covers all the essential navigation skills and techniques with a user friendly, easy to follow and succinct approach. Spiral bound to lie flat, and with laminated splash-proof pages, it is the hands-free ready reckoner to help you get where you want to go.

Written in clear, practical language, with clear photos, step-by-step diagrams and actual chart extracts, the book covers:
- Using nautical charts
- Understanding buoys, marks and lights
- Using the compass, log and depth gauge
- Plotting positions (including by dead reckoning), courses and bearings
- Understanding tides (heights, streams, including using tide tables) and currents
- Factoring in the weather
- Making a passage plan, keeping a logbook, and more

An essential title to have on board, this accessible book is aimed at skippers and crews of all levels, whether as a primer for those new to navigating or the perfect aide-memoire for those with prior experience.

• | Author: Rene Westerhuis
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2022
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• | Binding: Spiral bound
• | ISBN-13: 9781472990648
• | ISBN-10: 1472990641