Description
| Product ID: | 9780071481847 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Emergency Navigation |
| Authors: | Author: David Burch |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Navigation and seamanship, Navigation & seamanship, Boating: Sport and leisure, Boating |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Shows you how to find your way on the water - even if your navigation equipment is damaged or lost - using ancient and modern skills or rudimentary materials like a stick, a piece of string or a pair of sunglasses. This guide includes navigation methods, graphics and lists. It offers a useful backup for every ocean mariner. 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
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| Imprint Name: | International Marine Publishing Co |
| Publisher Name: | International Marine Publishing Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-10-16 |
