The Weekend Navigator: Simple Boat Navigation with GPS and Electronics
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Book Overview
Useful for inland and coastal cruisers, sportfishers, and aspiring recreational boaters, this handbook features a quick-reference format that helps you operate your GPS, depth sounder, and radar and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0071430350
ISBN13:9780071430357
Release Date:September 2004
Publisher:International Marine Publishing
Length:262 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.6" x 10.7"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Sandy Mac
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I am buying a boat for the first time since my teenage years in the 60's. This book really gives me the data I'll need to navigate the very shallow Barnegat Bay. First rate and understandable.
Excellent Piloting Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I've got a half dozen books on coastal navigation (piloting actually) and all are good, but Bob Sweet's book integrates GPS with traditional piloting methods in a way none of the rest do. Most books are either all about getting the most out of your GPS, or they concentrate on traditional charting methods then update the subject with separate chapters on GPS, RADAR, LORAN, etc. This book approaches 21 first century piloting as an integrated plan for most conditions that shows the roles played by your charts, your electronics, and your common sea sense in a balanced, minute by minute situational awareness where no single tool predominates. In short, Sweet's book answers the question I always had after reading other books: "OK, so how to I put all this together on the bay with only two hands, two eyes and one brain? This book shows how to do it without overloading yourself. A well planned book, manufactured nicely with good paper and color. I recommend this book.
Just Buy The Weekend Navigtor
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
When this book was published I gave it a quick look in our library and bought it. I use it in an Electronic Navigation class I teach at a local ASA Sailing School. It is the best in its field, very understandable, gorgeous illustrations and it is one of the best manuals for Maptech Chart Navigator which they provide free on the accompanying CD. There is nothing close to this book.
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