A Star to Steer Her By

A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation

Edward J. Bergin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2009
Cornell Maritime Press Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87033-309-5 (ISBN)

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Spend eight hours with this book and you will have a solid working knowledge of celestial navigation. This may sound like an outrageous claim, but its true. A Star to Steer Her By: A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation is a beginners text, giving straightforward explanations of everything you need to know to find your way across the bay or around the globe. This book takes you step-by-step through celestial navigation. Youll learn how to use the Nautical Almanac, chronometer, sextant, star finder, and the H.O. 229 and assumed altitude sight reduction tables. The book features specially designed celestial navigation workforms developed from the course material the author has used in his Weems & Plath-sponsored navigation course. Each chapter is a complete lesson (with suggested time allotment), and includes a study guide, examples of realistic situations the mariner may encounter, and 'check yourself' practice problems.

Edward J. Bergin, a retired senior policy advisor to the Secretary of Labor in Washington, has taught and written about navigation for nearly twenty years. Bergin is the author of A Star to Steer Her By: A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation. He served as director of education for Weems & Plath, Inc., Annapolis, cofounded the Navigation Institute, Inc., and is an experienced offshore sailor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2011
Zusatzinfo	13 b/w photos, 55 illustrations, 87 tables, 1 map
Verlagsort	Centreville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-87033-309-7 / 0870333097
ISBN-13	978-0-87033-309-5 / 9780870333095
Zustand	Neuware