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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner

Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner

Burch, David

Paperback

Boating

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ISBN10: 0071481842
ISBN13: 9780071481847
Publisher: Intl Marine Publ
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.71 Width: 7.38 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Find Your Way at Sea, No Matter What

Inherently interesting and fun to read . . . provides the clearest understanding of general navigation principles we've seen yet.--BoatU.S.

Thorough and authoritative.--Sea Kayaker

A definitive work of instant appeal to seamen of all levels of experience.--The Navigation Foundation

Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether you're safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have. Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a pair of sunglasses, Burch explains how to make use of all available means--from the ancient skills of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead--to calculate speed, direction, latitude, and longitude and to perform all aspects of piloting and dead reckoning. Learn how to

  • Steer by sun, stars, wind, and swells
  • Estimate current and leeway
  • Improvise your own knotmeter or plumb-bob sextant
  • Find the sun in a fogbank
  • Estimate latitude with a plate and a knotted string
  • And more vital information

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