Description
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 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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
useful as a study tool for those preparing for Coast Guard and similar navigation courses. * Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
Every navigator would benefit from having this comprehensive reference book available as a refresher or for new skills. * Ocean Navigator *
An excellent self-teaching textbook....His approach is straightforward and his sense of humor refreshing. * The Ensign *
Yes, we have our Chapman and our Bowditch (somewhere), and The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, but it seems to us that the author Frank J. Larkin, in this new edition, makes the subject of piloting and dead reckoning much less daunting and easy to comprehend. 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. We like that, and we think this 278-page reference is more likely to be read cover-to-cover. * Powerboat Reports *
Book Information
ISBN 9781574090529
Author Frank J. Larkin
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Sheridan House
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 780g
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 178mm * 25mm
About the Author
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.
Reviews
useful as a study tool for those preparing for Coast Guard and similar navigation courses. * Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
Every navigator would benefit from having this comprehensive reference book available as a refresher or for new skills. * Ocean Navigator *
An excellent self-teaching textbook....His approach is straightforward and his sense of humor refreshing. * The Ensign *
Yes, we have our Chapman and our Bowditch (somewhere), and The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, but it seems to us that the author Frank J. Larkin, in this new edition, makes the subject of piloting and dead reckoning much less daunting and easy to comprehend. 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. We like that, and we think this 278-page reference is more likely to be read cover-to-cover. * Powerboat Reports *
Book Information
ISBN 9781574090529
Author Frank J. Larkin
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Sheridan House
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 780g
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 178mm * 25mm
