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Useful when you can′t get more than one line of position at a time, the running fix technique is better than dead reckoning. Seton covers some of the many different ways of taking LOP′s.
[SailNet, 4 June 2003]
If you know where to look, there are many easy tricks you can use to determing absolute or relative position. The author covers these navigation basics, and the imaginative can take if from there.
[SailNet, 1 March 2004]
An active yacht club′s manual for learning to sail and using the club′s boats. Includes good introduction (no pictures) to charts, navigation tools, log keeping, chart work, setting course, fixes, and other techniques.
[Washington Yacht Club, USA]
Tips on reading depths by eye in tropical waters.
[Cruising World, May 2000]
A mental shortcut can be used to calculate course offsets (in degrees) needed to counteract current or safely pass a distant object.
[SailNet, 11 January 2001]
A quick-and-easy Post-It-Note method allows you to plot a continuous track one or more radar targets, mimicking the more complex ways of transferring the signals to a separate plotting sheet.
[Ocean Navigator, November 1999]
Sound and smell can help you navigate in the fog. The author gives examples from several cruising locations. 2 pages.
[Cruising World, November 2000]
Some tips on getting through an opening bridge. Using GPS and a handheld VHF to make life easier.
[SailNet, 14 September 2002]
A navigation trick for quickly plotting your position from a GPS reading, without having to interpolate latitude and longitude on the chart.
[Ocean Navigator, July 2003]
17 tips for making night sailing safer and less worrisome. Also a comforting discussion on the pleasures of navigating at night.
[SailNet, 1 June 1999]All good navigators know that proper navigation requires not only a fix, but a confirmation of that fix, and preferably an additional confirmation beyond that.
Bill Biewenga
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