Navigation - A Newcomer's Guide
Navigation - A Newcomers Guide by Sara Hopkinson start from scratch showing the simplest way to answer the two questions; Where am I? and Where do I go now? To keep things simple the book uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. Recommended for Beginners & RYA Day Skipper students, Ā areas covered include; Charts, Giving a position, Tides, Estimated position(EP), Course to steer (VTS), Pilotage, Passage Planning, Electronics.
Sarah Hopkinson is co-author of the first edition of the RYA Book of Navigation Exercises and writes the exercises and notes used on the RYA Day Skipper courses. She is also the author of Fernhursts VHF Afloat and VHF Companion. An experienced sailor, a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner, she lives at Pin Mill, Suffolk where she runs an RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and is now the Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook.
- ISBN: 9781909911079
- Author: Sara Hopkinson
- Publisher: Fernhurst Books
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Navigation - A Newcomers Guide by Sara Hopkinson start from scratch showing the simplest way to answer the two questions; Where am I? and Where do I go now? To keep things simple the book uses no jargon and features graphics instead of words wherever possible. Recommended for Beginners & RYA Day Skipper students, Ā areas covered include; Charts, Giving a position, Tides, Estimated position(EP), Course to steer (VTS), Pilotage, Passage Planning, Electronics.
Sarah Hopkinson is co-author of the first edition of the RYA Book of Navigation Exercises and writes the exercises and notes used on the RYA Day Skipper courses. She is also the author of Fernhursts VHF Afloat and VHF Companion. An experienced sailor, a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner, she lives at Pin Mill, Suffolk where she runs an RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and is now the Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook.
- ISBN: 9781909911079
- Author: Sara Hopkinson
- Publisher: Fernhurst Books
