This textbook has been used in the Starpath classroom and online courses in celestial navigation for many years. It is also now used by several other schools around the country. The material is presented as a home study course, with practice exercises at each step. All the necessary table selections are included, as well as work forms and plotting sheets that can be photocopied. It is a one book course. Besides it use for racing and cruising sailors, this book has also been used to train world record setting ocean rowers and the officers of US war ships. It is the training text used by several sailing certification agencies in the US.

Celestial Navigation: A Home Study Course

Engineering & Transportation

Burch, David

Transportation

Starpath Publications

A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, QuikSCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources. ¢ "No subject is more important to every sailor than the wind and its direction. Modern Marine Weather is first class reference book on the subject of marine weather and the information it contains will help every sailor, every day!" Peter Isler, two-time America's Cup winning navigator. ¢ An invaluable resource that belongs in the wheelhouse along side of Bowditch From the Foreword by Lee Chesneau

Modern Marine Weather

Science & Math

Environment

This workbook is designed to accompany the text Modern Marine Weather by David Burch (First or Second Edition). It can also be used by those who have learned marine weather from other sources. It provides questions and answers for all aspects of marine weather. This workbook is used in training programs around the US. These are practical questions that every mariner should know the answer to. It is a through overview of the subject. Anyone who answers all of these questions can be confident that they have a firm and practical grasp of marine weather that will enhance their interpretation and planning around the weather. Sections on weather map reading are included. There are multiple choice questions as well as short essay questions all with complete answers. The section called Points to Ponder along with their answers provide a summary of the key decisions that must be made in practical marine weather, both in planning and underway. The book is designed for all mariners, recreational and professional. The level of training covered exceeds that required for any certification or professional license exam.

Weather Workbook: Questions, Answers, and Resources on Marine Weather

Long Term Almanac 2000-2050: For the Sun and Selected Stars with Concise Sight Reduction Tables, 2nd Edition

Kolbe, Geoffrey

The barometer remains the most important tool for evaluating and predicting the weather. This book explains why knowing accurate values of the atmospheric pressure can improve this process and benefit all applications. Ways to evaluate and calibrate aneroid and electronic barometers using readily available data by Internet or telephone are clearly described. Tactical applications to marine navigation are covered. The book also includes worldwide average monthly pressures and their standard deviations. With the exception of trained meteorological crews, barometers in the past were used at sea primarily to learn if the pressure was going up or down, and whether it was doing this rapidly or slowly. And from this we made an educated guess of a likely consequence, usually in conjunction with other observations. Outside of professional marine use, little effort was made to know the true pressure for several reasons. We did not know what to do with it if we had it, and more often we could not get it if we wanted it, because most barometers were not calibrated. This has changed. We now have many valuable applications of accurate pressure, and we also have affordable ways to get it, and we have convenient ways to prove our instruments work properly. The main goal of this book is to show how all this comes about, and to give more insight into this fascinating, venerable instrument that has been with us for 150 years. Another goal is to introduce users to the new breed of electronic devices that are in the process of revolutionizing how we do weather at sea. We also re-introduce mariners to several classic aneroid instruments that are highly accurate and tested at sea for over 70 years, and why we benifit from having both a calibrated aneroid and an electronic barometer on board.

The Barometer Handbook: A Modern Look at Barometers and Applications of Barometric Pressure

This Work Book provides over 100 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation on inland and coastal waters. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics include: * Piloting * Chart reading and plotting * Voyage planning * Dead reckoning * Compass use * Waypoint selection * Special publications * Rules of the road * Route design * Lights and buoys * Tides and currents * Electronic fixes * Depth sounding navigation The level of the exercises is about that used in the USCG 100-Ton masters exam, which in turn is about the same used in the navigation certification programs of US Sailing, ASA, CYA and RYA. These practice problems are, however, designed to be practical and instructive, not just training exercises for certification exams. This Workbook is used by several navigation schools around the country. Selections are provided from each of these special publications along with exercises to insure their full use is mastered: * Tide Tables * Current Tables * US Coast Pilot * USCG Light List * USCG Notices to Mariners The exercises that require a chart use nautical training chart No. 18465tr, available at reduced price from NOAA chart dealers or by online order at nauticalcharts.noaa.gov or starpath.com/18465. You can also work the chart problems with a free electronic chart (Raster Navigation Chart, RNC) number 18465, available at no charge for Memory-Map Navigator from starpath.com/18465. The echart from NOAA (starpath.com/getcharts) can be viewed by any of several free echart viewer programs listed in this book. You can also use any full echart navigation program of your choice. We encourage navigators to solve the chart problems with both traditional paper plotting as well as electronically, using electronic bearing lines and range rings. The main reference for the problems is also a Kindle book: Inland and Coastal Navigation, 2nd Edition. A related Kindle work book is called: Navigation Exercises for Practice Underway.

Inland and Coastal Navigation Workbook: For Use with Paper and Electronic Charts

This book is an updated edition of a text that has been used in navigation courses for 25 years. It covers practical smallcraft navigation (sail or power), starting from the basics and ending with all that is needed to navigate safely and efficiently on inland and coastal waters in all weather conditions. It is for beginners, starting from scratch, or for more seasoned mariners who wish to expand their skills. Topics include: * Charts, Chart Reading, and Chart Plotting * Instruments and Logbook Procedures * Compass Use * Piloting and Dead Reckoning * Lights and Buoyage * Tides and Currents * Rules of the Road * GPS and other Electronic Aids

Inland and Coastal Navigation

* For all radar users, recreational and professional. * Covers the use of radar for chart navigation, blind pilotage,and collision avoidance. This Workbook is designed to be used in classroom or online courses in radar, or for individual study outside of the classroom. The lesson structure follows that used by several schools in the US, based on the background reader Radar for Mariners by David Burch. The Appendix on advanced radar plotting is included for professional mariners who seek more practice on interpreting ARPA output by working out the vector solutions themselves. The ability to manually interpret the radar interactions seen on the screen, independent of electronic solutions, is in keeping with the fundamental tenet of good navigation and seamanship that we should not rely on any one aid alone.

Radar Workbook: Problems and Answers in Marine Radar Operations

Brandt, Larry

This Book compliles Current Charts and Tide Prints for Puget Sound. Current Charts show the values of the currents at each reference station. There is one chart for every hour throughout the cycle. They are indexed to the tidal current at Admiralty Inlet. Tide Prints show the flow patterns and how they evolve throughout the current cycle. There is one print for every 3 hours throughout the cycle. They are indexed to the tide height in Seattle. Comparing Tide Prints and Current Charts shows the locations of eddies and bands of current, and how these bands and eddies move and interact as the current cycle evolves. These are both perpetual publications, good for any year.

Tidal Currents of Puget Sound: Graphic Current Charts and Flow Patterns

Nature & Ecology

In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun, moon, stars, and planets to obtain 26 position fi xes to fi nd your way along a 2,800-nmi voyage lasting 17 days. Solutions are provided by computation, workforms, and detailed plots using universal plotting sheets. After completing this passage you will be prepared to navigate by celestial navigation on your own, whether you need to or choose to. Also includes notes on optimizing sight analysis, hurricane tracking, DR error analysis, ocean currents, and use of visible light ranges for nighttime arrivals.

Hawaii by Sextant: An In-Depth Exercise in Celestial Navigation Using Real Sextant Sights and Logbook Entries

Miller,Stephen

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