The Weekend Navigator, 2nd Version

Learn what the the U.S. Energy Squadron and the U.S. Coast Guard belief because the definitive authority on digital navigation, now up to date with the most recent digital applied sciences and strategies

The Weekend Navigator teaches you how you can navigate utilizing right now’s instruments and strategies, together with the most recent applied sciences comparable to sensible telephones. Whereas digital navigation is right here to remain, creator Bob Candy acknowledges that they’re nonetheless based mostly on conventional charts and piloting abilities, and he combines the 2 to go alongside to you a stable understanding of all of the ideas of marine navigation.

Along with its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital technique of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Candy helps you perceive current choices for chartplotters, cheaper handheld GPS models, sensible telephones, and the navigation potentialities offered by cellphone apps. New to this version is a bit entitled “Ooops,” which offers an insightful assortment of cruising accident tales ensuing from widespread GPS and chartplotters no-nos. Utilizing The Weekend Navigator, you will get on the water immediately and be taught to navigate in a day with GPS; grasp chart-and-compass piloting whereas, not earlier than, she or he departs; plot programs and repair positions on paper or digital charts; and extra.