Celestial Navigation
Celestial navigation is the one of the oldest of the mariner's arts — and one of the most awe-inspiring. To guide a small boat across the trackless oceans using only a simple measuring device — the sextant — and the knowledge of the sun, moon and stars is a skill that borders on the magical. In these pages Tom Cuncliffe shows how to master the art in easy stages. Starting from a sound foundation of basic concepts and definitions, he moves on to the hardware: the sextant and how to use it. within a few pages he has you down on the beach, shooting the sun. From there it is a short step to working out your latitude from a noon sight, and learning how to plot a position from observation of the sun, planets, moon or stars — wherever you may be on the world's oceans.
"He writes with the authority of a man who knows that his methods work in the most testing of all examination rooms, a small boat sailing on the open ocean."
— Bill Anderson, Formerly Rya Training manager
- Author
- Tom Cunliffe
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781898660750
- Release date
- 2006
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