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Emergency Navigation 2nd Edition: Find Your Position and Shape Your Course at Sea
  Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether you're safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have.
Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a pair of sunglasses, Burch explains how to make use of all available means—from the acient skills of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead—to calculate speed, direction, latitude, and longitude and to perform all aspects of piloting and dead reckoning.
Learn how to:
- Steer by sun, stars, wind, and swells
- Estimate current and leeway
- Improvise your own knotmeter or pulmb-bob sextant
- Find the sun in a fogbank
- Estimate latitude with a plate and a knotted string
- And more vital information
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Time and Place at Sea
- Directions at Sea
- Steering by Wind and Swells
- Steering by the Stars
- Steering by the Sun
- Steering by Other Things in the Sky
- Steering in Fog or Under Cloudy Skies
- Currents
- Dead Reckoning
- Latitude at Sea
- Longitude at Sea
- Coastal Piloting withour Instruments
- What to Do with What You've Got
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
About the Author
David Burch is the founder and president of the Starpath School of Navigation and the author of nine books on navigation. Burch has more than 70,000 miles of ocean sailing experience, ranging from the Arctic to Tahiti. He has sailed across the Pacific twelve times and has received the Institute of Navigation's Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator.
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PRODUCT DETAILS:- Publisher: International Marine / McGraw-Hill - 2008
- Author: David Burch
- Binding: Softcover - 7¼ x 9 inches
- Pages: 268 - Black & white illustrations
- ISBN: 9780071481847
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