Basic Coastal Navigation

Features:

• Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting for Sail and Power is a clear and accessible introduction to coastal navigation outlines most of the techniques of piloting that are still fundamental to safe navigation even with modern electronic aids
• Step-by-step, the reader is guided from simple to more complex piloting solutions
• In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, the author covers tides and currents and explains how to use LORAN C and GPS
• There are numerous illustrations throughout the text and practice problems at the end of each chapter
• Key Advantages: fully updated new edition, perfect for sail and power, clear layout and instructions, comprehensive overage of all aspects of coastal navigation, review questions and answers, and suitable for self-study and Coast Guard or other similar courses
• Clear, easily understood, comprehensive course can be used for self-study or in a course setting
• Goes from simple techniques through advanced, including GPS navigation.

Publishing Information:

• Author: Frank J. Larkin
• Hardcover
• Pages 278
• Edition: 2nd
• ASIN: B00CB23ZXY
• Publication Date: January 1998