2023 Coastal & Offshore Navigation Guide

Uncover what the fashionable yacht navigator must know for a stress-free voyage alongside the coast and out of sight of land. This guide is designed to boost the sport of the inshore day-sailor to totally fledged offshore navigator able to dealing with any sea passage in need of an ocean crossing. The guide comprises what it’s good to keep protected utilizing strategies from non-electronic necessities by to the newest in digital chart plotters. It evaluations the essential arts of navigation and covers tides, the way to predict them and make them give you the results you want and the way to preserve a verify in your navigational accuracy and modify your techniques accordingly. It analyses the very important relationships between the repair and the estimated place and explains the protected and constructive use of digital aids for navigation. Passage planning for an gratifying, satisfying voyage is explored and there’s a systemic, no-nonsense method to passage making. It’s appropriate for many who are at ‘Day Skipper’ stage and who want to progress, or those that have began out with the companion guide Inshore Navigation, from which this guide follows on. Fernhurst Books recommends this guide for Yachtmaster and Coastal Skipper college students.