Boat Navigation For The Rest Of Us Finding Your Way By Eye And Electronics

Download or read book Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way By Eye and Electronics written by Bill Brogdon and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to navigating in small boats. Also covers important developments in electronic navigation such as GPS.

Download or read book Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way by Eye and Electronics written by Bill Brogdon and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Navigation written by B. Hofmann-Wellenhof and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global positioning systems like GPS or the future European Galileo are influencing the world of navigation tremendously. Today, everybody is concerned with navigation even if unaware of this fact. Therefore, the interest in navigation is steadily increasing. This book provides an encyclopedic view of navigation. Fundamental elements are presented for a better understanding of the techniques, methods, and systems used in positioning and guidance. The book consists of three parts. Beside a historical review and maps, the first part covers mathematical and physical fundamentals. The second part treats the methods of positioning including terrestrial, celestial, radio- and satellite-based, inertial, image-based, and integrated navigation. Routing and guidance are the main topics of the third part. Applications on land, at sea, in the air, and in space are considered, followed by a critical outlook on the future of navigation. This book is designed for students, teachers, and people interested in entering the complex world of navigation.

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Download or read book The Practical Mariner's Book of Knowledge: 420 Sea-Tested Rules of Thumb for Almost Every Boating Situation written by John Vigor and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between these covers is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience, distilled into a concise, alphabetically organized reference for sailors and powerboaters. You'll find rules of thumb for hull thickness, bottom paint coverage, estimating distances, when to hoist and lower flags, predicting weather, which colors are unlucky, rope size and strength, anchoring rights, making a rum punch, and a lot more. This is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. Open it to any page and browse awhile. You'll see.