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By David Seidman & Paul Cleveland
Now with full-color topographic maps and featuring the latest on electronic navigation, The Essential Wilderness Navigator is the clearest and most up-to-date route-finding primer available. Providing readers with exercises for developing a directional ‘sixth sense,' tips on mastering the art of map- and compass-reading, and comprehensive updates on a range of technological advances, this perennially popular guide is more indispensable than ever.
Title: The Essential Wilderness Navigator: How to Find Your Way in the Great Outdoors
Author: David Seidman & Paul Cleveland
Publisher: Ragged Mountain Press
Published: January 18, 2001
Edition: 2nd Edition
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780071361101
Binding: Paperback
$19.00
By Bruce Bauer
Loran and GPS notwithstanding, there will always be a place for the sextant aboard any blue-water boat, if for no other reason than the thrill and mystery of finding one's position on earth by gazing at the heavens. Here is the indispensable reference that should accompany the instrument aboard. Cmdr. Bruce Bauer, a professional navigator and master mariner with the U.S. Merchant Marine, has distilled years of hands-on experience into an eminently readable guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants.
The Sextant Handbook is dedicated to the premise that electronic navigation devices, while too convenient to disregard, are too vulnerable to rely on exclusively. The book is designed to make beginner and expert alike conversant with this most beautiful and functional of the navigator's tools. Topics include:
You'll also find a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of future trends, and numerous helpful hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a rude starfinder. All in a thoroughly revised edition of a book acclaimed by navigation professionals.
Title: The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, Use and History
Author: Bruce Bauer
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: February 22, 1995
Edition: 2nd Edition
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780070052192
Binding: Paperback
$19.95
This is the second edition of a book that has been in print since 1984
$27.00
Read what the the U.S. Power Squadron and the U.S. Coast Guard trust as the definitive authority on electronic navigation, now updated with the latest electronic technologies and methods
The Weekend Navigator teaches you how to navigate using today's tools and methods, including the latest technologies such as smart phones. While electronic navigation is here to stay, author Bob Sweet recognizes that they are still based on traditional charts and piloting skills, and he combines the two to pass along to you a solid understanding of all the principles of marine navigation.
In addition to its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital process of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Sweet helps you understand recent options for chartplotters, less expensive handheld GPS units, smart phones, and the navigation possibilities presented by phone apps. New to this edition is a section entitled "Ooops," which provides an insightful collection of boating accident tales resulting from common GPS and chartplotters no-nos. Using The Weekend Navigator, you can get on the water right away and learn to navigate in an afternoon with GPS; master chart-and-compass piloting while, not before, he or she departs; plot courses and fix positions on paper or electronic charts; and more.
Title: The Weekend Navigator
Author: Robert J. Sweet
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: August 25, 2011
Edition: 2nd Edition
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780071759960
Binding: Paperback
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Map and compass skills remain the foundation for traveling safely in the wilderness. Wilderness Navigation is the the official navigation textbook used in outdoor education courses by thousands of students. In this revised third edition, find updated information on modern maps, GPS, and recommended apps, as well as traditional map and compass skills.
