GPS Afloat: GPS Navigation Made Simple

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Item # MB-6093X  ISBN: 189866093X




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The Global Positioning System has revolutionized small boat navigation.

A GPS set gives your position to within 20 meters, anywhere on earth. Punch in your destination and the machine gives the data you need to sail or motor to your target. The dream of navigators throught he ages—always to know exactly where they are and where they are going—has finally been ralized.

GPS Afloat explains, to the novice or traditional navigator, what the system can and cannot do. In a very short time you will be entering Waypoints, planning Routes and watching the Crosstrack Error as though they were old friends. You will also understand how to check your results using traditional navigation, common sense and the Mark 1 Eyeball.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Choosing a set
• Getting to work
• Position fixing
• Outputs
• Waypoint navigation
• Passage making
• Pilotage

About the Author

Bill Anderson started sailing off the North Antrim coast in an open fishing boat. He spent 13 years as a seaman officer in the Royal Navy, serving as Navigating Officer of a minesweeper, a frigate and a destroyer.

GPS Afloat: GPS Navigation Made Simple