Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting for Sail and Power

# Read # Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting for Sail and Power by Frank J. Larkin ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting for Sail and Power 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.. In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, the author covers tides and currents and explains how to use LORAN C and GPS. This clear and

Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting for Sail and Power

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Rating : 4.59 (712 Votes)
Asin : 1574090526
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 288 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-01-03
Language : English

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Frank J. Larkin is a Master Mariner with some 30 years of boating experience. He is an instructor in boating safety and coastal navigation and was until recently District Staff Officer-Aids to Navigation with the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

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.. In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, the author covers tides and currents and explains how to use LORAN C and GPS. This 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

(Powerboat Reports) . We like that, and we think this 278-page reference is more likely to be read cover-to-cover. (Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal)Every navigator would benefit from having this comprehensive reference book available as a refresher or for new skills. Larkin starts at the beginning and takes the reader through the basics of such things as using dividers and a chart, with the kind of useful information sometimes passed over in more sophisticated treatments of the subject. (Ocean Navigator)An excellent

"THE PRIMER in Coastal navigation" according to Vicente Herrero. This is THE first book in coastal navigation to go through if you are new to navigation without the electronics. Very well written and organized, the examples are excellent and the example charts to work out the problems are a great help. The example chart for all problems are printed in the book and can easily be coppied if you do not want to write in the book. You can take this book with you anywhere and with a simple six inch ruler, a little protractor, and 60-THE PRIMER in Coastal navigation This is THE first book in coastal navigation to go through if you are new to navigation without the electronics. Very well written and organized, the examples are excellent and the example charts to work out the problems are a great help. The example chart for all problems are printed in the book and can easily be coppied if you do not want to write in the book. You can take this book with you anywhere and with a simple six inch ruler, a little protractor, and 60-30-90 triangle you can work all the problems any time anywhere. Great for auto. 0-90 triangle you can work all the problems any time anywhere. Great for auto. Comprehensive and thoroughly-accessible. A Customer "Basic Coastal Navigation" is a comprehensive and thoroughly-accessible guide to piloting small sail and power boats.Written in a self-instruction format with exercises, questions, and answers included in each chapter, the book offers step-by-step coverage of what sometimes can be a daunting subject.Frank J. Larkin takes care to write in a simple (but never dry) prose style, using easy-to-understand terms. Also, the book's layout is superb: There's lots of white space, large graphics, and varying font sizes and shadings.Larkin also includes. M. A Michaud said Basic Coastal Navigation: An Introduction to Piloting. This is a basic introductory textbook for readers who have no previous training in navigation or piloting. The explanations are simple and clear. The author provides questions and answers at the end of each chapter, plus exercises in such skills as plotting a course. Appendices describe detailed procedures and forms that facilitate a navigator's work. The book's large format makes it easy for the reader to follow both text and illustrations. This useful book could be used either for training oneself or as the text for an introductory class.

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