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Best Sailing Navigation

The Weekend Navigator
Pinpoint locations at all times Determine the precise ranges and bearings of destinations Compensate for wind and current effects Avoid underwater hazards. The Fast, Easy Way to Master Boat Navigation. Thanks to modern electronic navigation tools, getting from one place to another on the water has never been faster, easier, or safer. Ideal for inland and coastal cruisers, sportfishers, and aspiring recreational boaters, this innovative handbook features an easy-to-use, quick-reference format that helps you operate your GPS, depth sounder, and radar and interpret what they tell you. With the help of over 300 full-color illustrations, you’ll learn how to use your electronics to navigate even the most treacherous waterways with little or no risk, and discover waypoint navigation techniques that let you choose a destination, plot a course, and monitor your progress as you go. *Plot GPS positions on paper and digital charts *Determine the precise range and bearing of your destination *Evaluate and compensate for wind and current effects *Avoid reefs and other underwater hazards *Make a seamless transition to chart-and-compass navigation if your electronics fail *Praise for GPS for Mariners: "Useful for those looking to buy a GPS, as well as current owners who want to use theirs more efficiently. Now a business advisor to high-tech companies and a navigation instructor, Bob holds a Senior Navigator rating with The U.S. Power Squadrons. Ideal for inland and coastal cruisers, sportfishers, and aspiring recreational boaters, this innovative handbook features an easy-to-use, quick-reference format that helps you operate your GPS, depth sounder, and radar and interpret what they tell you. With the help of over 300 full-color illustrations, you’ll learn how to use your electronics to navigate safely in all conditions, and you'll discover waypoint navigation techniques that let you choose a destination, plot a course, and monitor your progress as you go. Plot GPS positions on paper and digital charts Determine the precise range and bearing of your destination Evaluate and compensate for wind and current effects Avoid reefs and other underwater hazards Integrate GPS information with compass courses, visual bearings, dead reckoning, and the other techniques of traditional piloting Make a seamless transition to chart-and-compass navigation if your electronics fail. Now a business advisor to high-tech companies and a navigation instructor, Bob holds a Senior Navigator rating with The U.S. Power Squadrons.
Reviews
"Helpful easy to read and understand."
"I boat in the cold, rocky, unforgiving waters of coastal Maine where safety is ALWAYS a concern."
"A great book for how most people navigate today."
"If you want a rare combination of smart tech and understandable language, this is the navigation user manual for you."
"I just completed navigation course and wish I had this book as the course book."
"This is a great resource for the recreational boater that wants to know the essentials of navigating using the electronic tools that are available to the boater today."
"An excellent book for those wanting to learn safe navigation."
"A very good book."
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How to Sail Around the World Part-Time
You don't need to quit your job, sell your house, and take the kids out of school to complete a circumnavigation of the globe in a sailboat. The mad rush from the eastern Caribbean to the “safe” ports in New Zealand and Australia in a single calendar year is misguided. It sets cruisers up for hard, upwind ocean passages in future years and saps the resolve of their crews. A better solution is to haul out their boats in the South Pacific and fly back to their homes in the developed world during the cyclone season. It makes more sense to keep one’s job and home and take annual two-to-six month leaves of absences to move the boat forward during the cruising season. Learn about the trade-wind route around the world with stops in Panama, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, Mauritius, Chagos, Madagascar, South Africa, St. Helena, Brazil, and the eastern Caribbean.
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"Think we will embark on this type of adventure."
"Linus provides all kinds of logistical insights and must have, and do's before setting out on such an expedition."
"Wilson lays out a common-sense approach to balance the responsibilities of career, family and finances with our desire to be in the the blue water and far-flung destinations that enchant serious cruisers."
"A lot of the information in this book can be adapted to whatever type of cruising you would like to do."
"in fact my one real long voyage was in a 22 ft Homebuilt wooden Block Island Schooner....we circumnavigated Cape Cod in 4 years..leaving Blackfish creek ...October 1979..via Kittery Point, Maine..Great Salt Pond Block Island...St. Georges' Grenada....St. Georges' Bermuda...we came back with a two year old....borne ---Tortola, BVI..July 1981...(The new-mom and one year old DID come home for 3 weeks- home visit-....mid voyage....1982------). the Skipper.... the vessel and the dog and cat..along with new mom and two-year old Cedar Oceanus...came home when we came home....4years later...landfall Block Island..and it DID feel like a proper circumnavigation of Cape Cod....slipping back into Blackfish Creek in july 1983... H. to S. A. T. W. part-time tells a different story...and projects another sort of "seat-of-the-pants" kinda cruising.Different Strokes....Different Folks...."
"Chock full of well thought out reasoning and great tidbits to keep you thinking."
"Pretty self-evident stuff as I have sailed extensively."
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Radar and Electronic Navigation
Radar and Electronic Navigation, Sixth Edition discusses radar in marine navigation, underwater navigational aids, direction finding, the Decca navigator system, and the Omega system.
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Best Sailing Narratives

River-Horse: A Voyage Across America
In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat he named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. But the hard days yield up incomparable pleasures: strangers generous with help and eccentric tales, landscapes unchanged since Sacagawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. The voyage--from New York harbor to the Pacific Ocean--packs surprises, wisdom, regrets, mishaps, candor, and conversations that readers who savored Blue Highways and PrairyErth will delight in. The impetus for River Horse is one of intrigue--less urgent than the departure in Blue Highways --and the narrative possesses a captivating pull as it courses westward through the strongest currents and pauses in the back eddies of contemporary American life. Written in short thematic chapters, River Horse plies canals, greets the Missouri's many moods, and challenges chaotic waves. Writing under the name Heat-Moon (Blue Highways), William Trogdon once again sets out across America, this time propelled chiefly by a dual-outboard boat dubbed Nikawa, "River Horse" in Osage. Citing 19th-century travelogues and dredging odd bits of the rivers' past, Heat-Moon conveys the significance of passing "beneath a bridge that has looked down on the stovepipe hat of Abraham Lincoln, the mustache of Mark Twain, the sooty funnels of a hundred thousand steamboats."
Reviews
"It is a well crafted account of the challenge, both technical and personal, of taking a small craft across the country using river routes that are barely passable at times, routes that were used hundreds of years ago by both native Americans and the early settlers of the United States."
"I find River Horse fascinating, entertaining, and believable, a worthy companion to Blue Highways and PrairyErth, and having shared the trials, fears, joys, and victories of the Northwest Passage, I store his travels with my own travels with my wife, on secondary roads, around, over, and through the middle and western states on our motorcycle (about 52,000 miles)."
"However, William Least Heat-Moon's earlier books fascinated me with their combination of travelogue, social history and natural history, and I expected the same from "River Horse." Although he is constantly impelled to move onward and westward for fear (unfounded mostly) of having too little water in the West, Heat-Moon still takes plenty of time to learn and relate the histories of many of the small river towns he finds along the way."
"I hate to see the book end."
"I am enjoying the book, but have only read a few chapters so far."
"Doing it the way the author did -- and also not naming minor real-life characters such as the Reporter and the Photographer -- keeps the story moving, and this book is all about movement. I will, though, agree with those who say that a bit of self-righteousness had crept into the author's writing by the time this book was composed, which is why I give it four stars instead of five."
"Heat-Moon chooses a most challenging transit of this country and recalls the experience in words of absolute stark reality."
"this is an extraordinary book."
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