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The chapter on nautical publications from the 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator, originally published in 1802 and updated by NIMA. 12 pages on US government-published sailing directions, coast pilots, notices to mariners, light lists, sight reduction tables and other documents. Includes electronic delivery of some documents.
[I'd Rather Be Sailing, Dania, FL, USA]
The chapter on dead reckoning from the 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator, originally published in 1802 and updated by NIMA. 8 pages with diagrams and examples.
[I'd Rather Be Sailing, Dania, FL, USA]
The chapter on tides and tidal currents from the 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator, originally published in 1802 and updated by NIMA. 22 pages with diagrams and examples on origins and features of tides, tidal current prediction, and publications.
[I'd Rather Be Sailing, Dania, FL, USA]
The chapter on piloting from the 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator, originally published in 1802 and updated by NIMA. 24 pages with diagrams and examples on chart preparation, taking a bearing or range, taking a running fix, and other techniques. Many other chapters on other navigation subjects.
[I'd Rather Be Sailing, Dania, FL, USA]
This site has developed about 20 small downloadable applications for Psion and Palm handhelds dealing with celestial navigation, mapping, GPS, tide prediction, and other boat management chores. Freeware and shareware.
[Nautical Psion Web Site, France]
Steer, deal with buoyage and rules of the road, plot positions, handle emergencies. This computer simulation puts you to work navigating in conditions as different as the Exumas or Maine.
[Posey Yacht Design, Haddam, CT, USA]
Plastic protractor-type instrument that solves the classic TVMDC problems. Converts magnetic courses and bearings to true, including variation and deviation corrections. Also converts relative bearings to true bearings and calculates set and drift. Video on the subject also available.
[Navigation Aid, Mesa, AZ, USA]
Twelve-week or twenty-week courses covering charts, the compass, steering and timing a course; tides, currents and leeway; methods of determining position, the running fix, aids to navigation; electronic navigational aids, and the sextant.
[Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons, Scarborough, ONT, Canada]
Short course covering techniques to determine position when you are within the sight or near proximity of land. Given at many locations around the U.S.
[United States Power Squadron, USA]
Coastal and celestial navigation courses for home study.
[International Navigation School, Royston, BC, Canada]Different skills are required for electronic charting and for paper plotting - don′t dismiss either set of skills.
Daniel Piltch
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