Overview

A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea, starting from scratch and using no jargon. 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 covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Covering paper and digital charts, it has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. 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. AUTHOR: Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She runs an RYA Training Centre in Suffolk which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. Sara has written books for the RYA and Fernhurst Books' Skipper's Pocketbook, VHF Afloat and VHF Companion. SELLING POINTS: . A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea since 2006. . By an experienced instructor who gives an accurate but sympathetic introduction to the subject. . Uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. 80 colour photographs, 120 diagrams, 10 charts

Full Product Details

Author:   Sara Hopkinson
Publisher:   Fernhurst Books Limited
Imprint:   Fernhurst Books Limited
Edition:   4th New edition
ISBN:  

9781912621729

ISBN 10:   191262172
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   12 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Welcome to Navigation; Looking at Charts: Types of charts, Depths & heights; Giving a Position: Latitude & longitude, Range & bearing; Finding Your Position: GNSS, A fix, A DR position; An estimated position; Looking at Tides: General introduction, Tidal tables & tidal heights, Tidal streams, Using tidal heights; Sierra on Passage; Course to Steer: The basic plot, … so much more; Pilotage: The buoyage system, The plan; Passage Planning: The regulations, The navigational plan; Looking at Electronics: The basics, Chart plotters; Sierra on Passage (continued); Navigation … to sum up; Glossary

Reviews

"""This excellent book has the best explanation of accessing your course to steer I've ever read. Sara Hopkinson sensibly assumes she is teaching a babe in arms and as a result the pages on applying tidal vectors are failsafe. I like her simple checklist of getting aboard, preparing for a passage and setting off - simple, clear and impossible to misinterpret. Her no-nonsense approach will be a huge benefit to the novice sailor grappling at home with training, but it will also be welcomed by the harassed skipper, a little rusty from winter lay-up, who just wants a quick reminder of what he's supposed to be doing. I will keep a copy aboard myself."" (Yachting Monthly) ""I gave a copy to a dinghy sailor who had very little navigation knowledge and, within an hour or so, she felt confident enough to do the basics to get a boat from A to B using chart navigation. A good first introduction to navigation."" (Sailing Today) ""There is nothing intimidating about learning to navigate using Sara's approach... The innovative difference in approach taken by this book is the very visual step-by-step way in which each subject is covered with colour photographs and diagrams on almost every page. It is very easy to follow whilst still being comprehensive. This book is unreservedly recommended for newcomers to boating and for students on RYA courses: it is one of the very best."" (Cruising Association)"

Author Information

Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She runs an RYA Training Centre in Suffolk which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She was a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. Sara has written books for the RYA and Fernhurst Books’ Skipper’s Pocketbook, VHF Afloat and VHF Companion.

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