Celestial Navigation : A Practical Guide to Knowing Where You Are (eBook)

A Practical Guide to Knowing Where You Are

David Berson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
160 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-944824-03-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This user-friendly guide teaches the ancient navigation technique with a unique approach that allows you to combine modern and traditional tools. Celestial navigation is nearly as old as mankind. Anyone who can master its intricacies stands at the end of a long line of master navigatorsan expert among many who would be lost with electronics. David Berson, a columnist forOcean Navigatormagazine and an instructor at the Ocean Navigator School of Seamanship, offers a refreshing approach that simplifies the math and incorporates true-life anecdotes to demystify this essential sailor's art.

Autor

David Berson holds a 400-ton Merchant Marine Master’s License and has operated sailing and power vessels for more than 25 years. He is a contributing editor to Ocean Navigator magazine, and challenges readers every month in a popular column that offers a celestial navigation problem woven into a seafaring story. He has captained well-known sailing ships such as Petrel, Pioneer, Harvey Gamage, and Ocean Star, and has been the sea chantey man at South Street Seaport. He lives in Greenport, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: B&W photos, 40 B&W illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Deutschland
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: advertised • Almanacs • azimuth • Bauer • blewitt • blue water • boater • books on • books on almanacs • books on azimuths • books on bauer • books on blewitt • books on blue waters • books on boaters • books on burch • books on deficit spendings • books on dutton • books on electronic navigations • books on electronics books on heavens • books on handbooks • books on home studies • books on instruments • books on loran • books on maintenances • books on mariners • books on nautical almanacs • books on navigators • books on practical navigators • books on practises • books on reductions • books on sailings • books on sailors • books on sextants • books on sights • books on tables • books on vernier • books on yachtsmen books on fixes • burch • Deficit Spending • Dutton • electronic navigation • Electronics • Emergencies • fixes • Handbook • heavens • home study • instruments • loran • Maintenance • Mariner • nautical almanac • NaviGate • Navigating • Navigational • Navigators • Offshore • practical navigator • practise • re-do • re-doing • reduction • Sailing • Sailors • sextants • Sights • Tables • Vernier • yachtsmen
• ISBN-10: 1-944824-03-0 / 1944824030
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944824-03-7 / 9781944824037