Celestial Navigation - A Complete Home Study Course

Updated second edition. This book has been used for 30 years, updated continually as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe.

This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required. The only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times).

This is a practical, how-to-do-it book, which also includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well. Plus this book includes other crucial factors of ocean navigation besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, etc. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation.

The book includes: text, practice problems, tables selections, detailed glossary, and full solutions. Printable work forms and plotting sheets recommended in the text are available as free online downloads

Author : David Burch Tobias Burch ( designed by)

Paperback : 287 pages

SKU: P1485

 

About the Author

David Burch, founder of Starpath Navigation School in Seattle, is a well-known name in the community of celestial navigators. His contribution to the understanding of navigation and marine meteorology extends to classics like Emergency Navigation, Celestial Navigation with the 2102-D Star Finder, Modern Marine Weather, Hawaii by Sextant, and others that should be in the library of every sailor.