This clear and accessible introduction to coastal navigation outlines most of the techniques of piloting that are still fundamental to safe navigation even with modern electronic aids. Step-by-step, the reader is guided from simple to more complex piloting solutions. In addition to dead-reckoning techniques, the author covers tides and currents and explains how to use LORAN C and GPS. There are numerous illustrations throughout the text and practice problems at the end of each chapter. Key Adva...
Lighthouses 2019 Mini Wall Calendar (UK Edition)
by Wall Publishing
Coventry, Ashby and North Oxford Canals Including Birmingham and Fazele y Canal ("Waterways World" Cruising Guides)
Tide Current Tables 1998: Pacific Coast of North America and Asia
by Noaa
This book provides the official government data for high and low tides for thousands of locations in North America and Asia. These are the same tables, unaltered and unabridged, that were formerly produced by NOAA.
Voyage to Disaster (Australian Classics)
by Henrietta Drake-Brockman
This third edition has been completely rewritten and updated, and concentrates on explaining the principles of fiberglass construction as well as sound practice. It contains much new information not previously published, including explanations of the peculiar nature of fiberglass, its durability, its weaknesses, the way it can fail, the effects of use and the latest research into causes of the biggest worry for owners - blistering and osmosis. The fiberglass boat industry is currently going thro...
Tide Tables 1998: Central and Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean
by Noaa
This book provides the official government data for high and low tides for thousands of locations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. These are the same tables, unaltered and unabridged, that were formerly produced by NOAA.
This book assembles a complete list of the Ottoman Empire's fleet and details the naval events in the century before Ataturk's nationalist revolution.
Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their detail and usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed. This beautiful book examines stunning original maps from a series of key conflicts from the Spanish Armada, the American Wars of Independence, and the Napoleonic wars to twentieth century conflicts from the First World War to Vietnam, and explains how the...
Step aboard the most beautiful cruise ships, from the 1930s to present day! Discover life aboard as well as numerous mythical ports of call, from the Caribbean to the Far East...It was in 1891 that Albert Balin, director of the Hamburg American Line, invented a travel concept that would soon enjoy world-wide success: the pleasure cruise...Largely democratized since the days of the first floating palaces of the 1930s, the cruise ship has become a veritable village resort, entirely conceived and d...