American Practical Navigator
| Author | : Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 798 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Nautical astronomy |
| ISBN | : |
Noon Sight Navigation
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Noon Sight Navigation
| Author | : Arthur A. Birney |
| Publisher | : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 47 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780870331718 |
The Natural Navigator
| Author | : Tristan Gooley |
| Publisher | : The Experiment |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2012-06-05 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1615191550 |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen
| Author | : Mary Blewitt |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2013-09-21 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1472906764 |
The 12th edition of this bestselling book is proof of the success of Mary Blewitt's concise and clear style in explaining a particularly difficult skill, and it has been the bible for many generations of ocean navigators. Since this book was first published, the huge advances in electronic navigation have transported most offshore navigators to a world of press-button convenience. However, there is still a vital need for traditional skills when things go wrong: batteries can fail, aerials go overboard, and electronics have been known to get wet. A bestseller for over 50 years, Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen is a model of simplicity and clarity. The worked examples require only straightforward addition and subtraction, which explains why this book has truly earned its reputation for admirable conciseness and for making a tricky subject easy to understand. 'The "bible" of navigation for generations of yachtsmen... worth its weight in gold' Sailing
Coastal Navigation
| Author | : Dominique F. Prinet |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2017-01-09 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1525521233 |
Coastal Navigation for Class and Home Study is based on the notes prepared for students by the author during some 20 years of teaching navigation, initially to private or commercial pilots, and then to sailors and professional mariners. The book is copiously illustrated with graphics which explain chart projections, scales and symbols, and describe lights and other navigation aids. It demystifies the True, Magnetic and Compass Norths as well as problems of time, speed and distances, and explains how to plot courses and take bearings, or draw regular and advanced Lines of Position using the international system of labeling. The book further clarifies the use of vectors to easily determine the impact of a current on the boat speed and direction, and goes on to show how to evaluate tides and currents. The final sections describe the use of GPS and electronic charts, highlighting their limitations. Additional notes and explanations are given in the areas where students traditionally experience difficulties, as well as supplementary examples and exercises. The companion book, Coastal Navigation Exercises, offers all the exercises needed for practice.
Longitude
| Author | : Dava Sobel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2010-07-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0802779433 |
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Astro Navigation Demystified
| Author | : Jack Case |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2011-11 |
| Genre | : Nautical astronomy |
| ISBN | : 9780954133122 |
Written in plain language, 'Astro Navigation Demystified' aims to make the art of astro navigation easy and enjoyable to learn.
Celestial Navigation Exercises for Class and Home study
| Author | : Dominique F. Prinet |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2016-01-15 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1460280709 |
About the Manual Celestial Navigation Exercises for Class and Home Study was designed to facilitate the work of instructors using the free PowerPoint slide presentation available at CelestialNavigationBook.com. This exercise manual, available in hard copy and in PDF format for tablets, reproduces the questions posed at regular intervals throughout the slide presentation; it provides the work-forms guiding the calculations, and the solutions. Students taking a course from an instructor who follows the slide presentation will normally have the associated course book Celestial Navigation using the Sight Reduction Tables Pub. No. 249. In order to facilitate the download process, the free version of the exercise manual (available for download from CelestialNavigationBook.com), includes neither the Almanac nor the Sight Reduction Tables required for the calculations because these tables are identical to the ones in the course book. This complete version of the exercise manual, with all the required data tables in the appendix, will thus be useful mostly to navigators who do not have the course book but wish to practice on their own, as well as to students who follow the presentation and have the course book but do not wish to download and print 140 pages of questions and answers.
The Mathematics of Navigation
| Author | : Edward Jones Willis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 1921 |
| Genre | : Navigation |
| ISBN | : |
Celestial Navigation in a Nutshell
| Author | : Hewitt Schlereth |
| Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781574090581 |
Hewitt Schlereth is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
