Navigation: A Newcomer’s Guide

A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea, starting from scratch and using no jargon. Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It covers all modern navigation and is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Covering paper and digital charts, it has been updated to reflect upcoming changes in Admiralty charts. It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to. AUTHOR: Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She runs an RYA Training Centre in Suffolk which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. Sara has written books for the RYA and Fernhurst Books' Skipper's Pocketbook, VHF Afloat and VHF Companion. SELLING POINTS: . A best-selling introduction to navigation at sea since 2006. . By an experienced instructor who gives an accurate but sympathetic introduction to the subject. . Uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. 80 colour photographs, 120 diagrams, 10 charts