Boat
Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way by Eye and Electronics
by Bill Brogdon, Rob Groves(Illustrator)
The popular texts would have us navigate our small boats using the
same techniques found on an aircraft carrier. But these elaborately
precise methods just don't work in the bouncy, wet, cramped cockpit of a
typical pleasure craft. This is the first book to teach small-boat
navigation the way most people actually navigate, combining electronic
aids like radar, GPS, and Loran with commonsense visual piloting and
seat-of-the-pants chartwork. It explains in plain, simple language
exactly how to find where you are and get where you want to go with a
minimum of fuss, and contains many useful but relatively unpublicized
methods specifically designed for use aboard the nation's 20 million
small power- and sailboats.
Chapman
Piloting : Seamanship & Boat Handling (Chapman Piloting Seamanship
and Boat Handling, 63rd Ed)
When Chapman Piloting lands on your doorstep--all 656 pages of
it--it's easy to feel daunted. Have faith, sailor. Now in its 63rd
edition, Charles Frederic Chapman's masterpiece is a boater's bible.
Indeed, one Amazon.com customer raves, "if you could take a class
called Boating 101, this would be the textbook." It's more than
just a basic text, however; it's a complete curriculum of nautical
knowledge, from knots to navigation, docking to distress calls, plus
etiquette, protocol, and terminology for powerboaters and sailors alike.
Accessible to the beginner, Chapman Piloting is an essential
reference for even the most experienced sailor. A necessary component of
any nautical library. Highly recommended. --M. Stein
