by Dag Pike

Written by one of the most experienced navigators in the world, '50 Ways to Improve Your Navigation' is packed with colour photographs and diagrams, and will quickly become your guide to safe and effective navigation whatever the weather and wherever you are.
From planning your trip through to navigating at night and in fog, this is a complete and comprehensive tool kit for all seafarers, power and sail.

Paperback, 96pp, 216x138mm, 2008. Colour photos and diagrams.

RRP £9.99, OUR PRICE £7.99

By L. Gray

A self-contained book of realistic celestial navigational problems, including excerpts of all the necessary Nautical Almanac pages and sight reduction tables, with answers and explanations.

168p Pb illus.
US Pub.

Radar . Chart Plotters . GPS . Computers . Autopilots

by Tim Bartlett

How to use radar, GPS, chart plotters and electronic instrumentation in everyday small boat navigation - all in plain English.
What is the point of waypoints? Is GPS more accurate in 2D or 3D mode? What is the most dangerous control on a radar set? Why does my GPS say that my boat is at an altitude of 57m? Will you find more information on a raster chart or a vector chart?

132pp, paperback, well illustrated, 2005.

RRP £16.99 OUR PRICE £13.99

by Tim Bartlett

This is the perfect reference for anyone following an RYA navigation course, from Day Skipper through to Yachtmaster Offshore, and for the seafarer requiring a knowledge of navigation.

Using clear diagrams, worked examples and colour photographs, Tim Barlett explains each stage of navigation, including electronic navigation.

176pp, paperback, 2008.

RRP £14.99, OUR PRICE £11.99

by Alison Noice & James Stevens

Reprint of the 'RYA Book of Navigation Exercises', with an amended title.

This book provides graded practice questions and answers at Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster levels. Written by the RYA staff who actually compile the test papers, these exercises provide an invaluable back-up both to those attending RYA shorebased courses as well as those who wish to brush up their knowledge of navigation and seamanship.

The new RYA practice chart is provided with the book, along with extracts from the relevant tide tables, almanacs and pilotage notes.

96pp 50 line drawings, practice chart (paperback)

RRP £16.99 OUR PRICE £13.50

Bowditch

The most recent edition of this definitive work on navigation, combines the best technologies of each generation of navigator. This edition includes the latest advances in electronic navigation and digital charting technology as well as celestial, plotting and dead reckoning. It contains numerous tables.

US Pub. Pb. photos, charts, tables 896p

Using a Pocket Calculator
By Francois Meyrier

A bright straightforward modern approach to astro navigation.

Beginning with a brief outline of the solar system, here is a step by step guide to finding your position on the ocean, with or without a pocket calculator. Outstanding colour illustrations.

210x135mm 128p Colour throughout
Pb

RRP £12.99 OUR PRICE £10.99

by Brogdon

Finding your way by eye and electronics

Most navigation texts would have us navigate our small boats with techniques used on ships and large yachts. But these elaborately precise methods just don't work in the cockpit of a typical pleasure craft.

This book explains in plain, simple language exactly how to find where you are and get where you want to go with a minimum of fuss. It also contains many useful but not widely known methods and shortcuts of particular use to small-boat navigators.

220pp, paperback

by Hewitt Schlereth

How to navigate any stretch of sea using only a hand-held sextant, a watch, a plotting sheet and a copy of the Nautical Almanac, taking sights by the sun, moon and planets. The clear guidance and illustrations make this a most effective self-teaching guide.

144pp, line drawings, tables and graph, paperback

By J. Karl
2007

Covers all modern methods of celestial navigation including H.O. 229 and 249, direct calculations using calculators and 72 different exercises in five categories of interest. A textbook for today's celestial navigators.

Pb. 273pp 7"x10"

By Tom Cunliffe
2010

Celestial navigation is the one of the oldest of the mariner's arts - and one of the most awe-inspiring. To guide a small boat across the trackless oceans using only a simple measuring device - the sextant - and the knowledge of the sun, moon and stars is a skill that borders on the magical.

PB 64pp, 3rd edition 2010.

RRP £11.99 OUR PRICE £9.99

by Mary Blewitt
12th Ed.

The 12th edition of this bestselling textbook is proof of the success of Mary Blewitt's concise and clear style in explaining a particularly difficult skill, and it has been the bible for many generations of ocean navigators.

There is a vital need for traditional skills when things go wrong at sea: batteries can fail, aerials go overboard, and electronics have been known to get wet. The worked examples require only straightforward addition and subtraction, which explains why this book has truly earned its reputation for admirable conciseness and making a tricky subject easy to understand.

Pb. 70pp, 38 b/w drawings.

By Tom Cunliffe
2009
3rd Ed.

Upgrade your navigation to Yachtmaster standard. Now updated to include electronic navigation.
A review of basic navigation, how to predict tides and make it work for you, how to check your navigational accuracy and modify tactics accordingly, analysis of the relationshp between the fix and estimated position, safe and constructive use of electronic aids to navigation, passage planning, passage making.

Pb. 156p 210x175mm Colour diag. and photos throughout.

RRP £14.95 OUR PRICE £11.99

by G G Bennett

Celestial navigation is an ancient skill, one that saves lives when electronics fail. 'The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator' replaces many guides and almanacs traditionally required by celestial navigators, and includes a clear, concise refresher that explains the entire process; a star finder; a five-year nautical almanac (2007-2011)for determining precise star, sun, moon, or planet locations at the time of sighting; and sight reduction tables for crunching the numbers and producing a fix anywhere in the world.

176pp, spiral bound (lies open flat)

By D. Birch
2008
2nd Ed.
As complex electronics have come to dominate boat navigation, Emergency Navigation provides an essential backup for every ocean mariner. David Burch shows readers how to find their position and plot a course to safety--even if their navigation equipment is damaged or lost--using ancient and modern skills or rudimentary materials like a stick, a piece of string or a pair of sunglasses. New edition includes new navigation methods, enhanced graphics and updated resource lists.

Pb. 272pp

RRP £11.99 OUR PRICE £9.99

by Nigel Calder

Nigel Calder makes sense of the complex array of signs, symbols and graphic elements used in nautical charts, and presents a number of original features to help readers optimise use of the data. He includes background information, international chart symbol equivalents, electronic chart symbology and detailed explanations of the practical aspects of nautical chart reading.

Pb. 210x275mm 229pp, 500 colour images,

by Ivan Dedekam

A pictorial manual which teaches you how to navigate by traditional navigation, electronic navigation (using GPS and radar) and celestial navigation (using sextant, tables and a watch).

Paperback, 2004 edition

RRP £13.95 OUR PRICE £11.45

By T. Cunliffe
2nd Ed.
2008

This book will give you enough knowledge to be able to navigate simply and safely on short inshore passages. The logical way to begin cruising is to make day sails in reasonable weather and steer clear of night passage making until you have gained a little confidence - there is enough information here to enable you to do just that.

Inshore Navigation is structured so as to help you get on the water as soon as possible and stay out of trouble as you learn the necessities. All the essential navigational concepts are covered, so that when you feel your sea going experience is sufficient you will be building on a solid foundation as you move into the greater depth of detail required for coastal and offshore navigation.

Pb. 120pp

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

By C. Emms, S. Gossiff
4th Ed. Revised

Morgans Technical Book

Pb. 240pp 326 col. illus. 230x190mm

by Fisher

How to build and use 18 traditional navigational instruments

Part history of navigation and part project guide, this unique book includes step-by-step building instructions, full-size patterns, and instructions for use for 18 historic navigation tools that can be built easily and inexpensively. Some are more decorative and educational than useful, but others are important and practical tools for small craft navigation.

176pp, paperback

by Basil Mosenthal

This is the ideal introduction for anyone wanting to learn the basics of what navigation is all about. Covering the essentials of reading a chart, understanding tides, using navigation instruments, plotting a position and planning a passage, it is ideal for novices of all ages wanting a simple introduction to what can seem a daunting subject.

Paperback, 72 pp, 240x170 mm, colour illustrations, 5th edition 2007.

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

By T. Crowley

An entertaining and practical book by a former merchant navy officer and writer on navigation - for those who wish to be less dependant on electronics.

A variety of illustrated projects, how to make traditional navigation instruments, detect sea currents using a kettle, find your position from the pole star, with orgami or through poetry.

240x170mm 148p Pb

by Alastair Buchan

Every essential calculation you need for coastal and offshore navigation.

This useful little flip guide brings together all the frequently needed but often forgotten equations and formulae needed by yachtsmen.

The format is the same throughout: the equation followed by a worked example to show how it should be done. Illustrated by line drawings to help the reader understand what they are doing and why they are doing it.

Spiral bound with hanger, 24pp, paperback, 2007.

By W. Morris
2010

Bill Morris, in his masterly dissection of the many varieties of sextants, relishes precision and clarity, in his words and his many detailed illustrations. Those leave the reader with an itch to dismantle and overhaul his own sextant, with complete confidence to reassemble and readjust it afterwards, guided by the wise words of a man with vast experience of the many makes and types that exist.

by Tim Davison

This book tells the navigator how to find out where they are and how to proceed to their destination. This short, sharp summary of the navigator’s art covers: charts, depth of water, latitude and longitude, GPS, dead reckoning, tides, passages and pilotage. The 'at a glance' approach is perfect for both exam revision and on board use and is in a practical, splash-proof ring bound format.

Spiral bound, 24pp

by Sara Hopkinson

This book is a simple introduction to charts, navigation, pilotage, passage planning and basic tidal calculations for complete beginners. It assumes no knowledge, uses informal language and great graphics to make the subject live.

96pp, 120 charts and colour diagrams, paperback.

RRP £9.95 OUR PRICE £7.99

By D. Launer

This comprehensive volume begins with the impressive navigational achievements of early seafarers and follows the subsequent development. Focuses on the navigation tools invented by each age.

Pb. 208pp 217x150mm illus.

By A. Buchan

This guide contains a series of headings and tips to help prepare a passage plan. The companion is laid down the side of a sheet of paper and the plan for that voyage is written down opposite each heading and prompt.

Covers: routing, pilotage, points of departure, landfalls, weather, tides and currents, safe havens, lights, communications, watch keeping, safety checks and drills, rations, fuel supplies, safety checks, stowage

Pb. 24pp, spiral bound

By Peter Chennell
2011
RYA Passage Planning will take you through all you need to know and show some examples of different passages. This will show you what you should think about on the range of different journeys you may undertake. The essential facts and methods are split into three sections:

Getting down to basics
The essential first steps
Putting it into practice

Pb. 210x170mm 72pp

By A. Buchan

Simple, practical, get-you-home navigation techniques, which can be used if electronic navigation systems aboard a yacht fail.
Topics:
1. Understand the principles behind the techniques you are using.
2. The techniques explained in a simple and easy to use manner, requiring no complicated mathematics.
3. Employ every technique using materials and equipment likely to be found on every boat.
4. Put these techniques into practice.

Pb. 200pp

RRP £14.99, OUR PRICE £11.99

By P. Manley
2008
The complete navigation reference for beginners and experts including electronic simulators for GPS, chartplotting, radar and AIS.
unique combination of modern and traditional disciplines to boat navigation. Although the pencil and paper chart method will not be introduced until it is demonstrated this knowledge is vital. This practical approach to the subject will ensure that although modern electronic methods remain at the forefront, readers will never lack in knowledge to navigate their boat safely in any circumstance.
GPS,Finding your position, Passage Planning, Radar, PC's.

Hb. 200pp

RRP £19.99 OUR PRICE £15.99

By T. Bartlett
2009

This book covers the basics of astro navigation, right up to how to use the more complex formulas involved in the art. It is an ideal progression from any basic navigation book.

Pb. 245x175mm Colour photos and illus.

by Tim Bartlett

Whether you are studying navigation as part of an RYA course or just want to know more about the art of navigation, this book is highly recommended.

This is the new official reference book for the RYA Cruising Scheme, suitable for both Day Skipper and Yachtmaster students. Using full colour illustrations throughout, it follows the newly-revised syllabus including recent developments in electronic chart plotting and GPS.

Paperback, 172pp

By C. Slade
2nd Ed.
2008

All vital aspects of seamanship are included, from estimated positions and tide tables to meteorology and maydays. Through full colour illustrations, this book follows the RYA Yachtmaster syllabus and includes recent developments in electronic chart plotting and GPS.

Questions range from the beginner to advanced.

Two training charts included.

Pb. 126pp 297x210mm Colour photos, illus. 2 training charts

By Tim Bartlett

Guides the reader through the basic steps of navigation so that they can learn to navigate successfully. It is therefore an absolute must for everybody, whether studying for the RYA Basic Navigation Course, or merely looking to refresh their knowledge.

Chapters include the purpose of navigation; measuring direction and distance; tides and buoys; pilotage and passage planning.

Paperback, 80pp, 2010.

by Dag Pike

This book describes how a sextant works, provides practical tips and advice on using it, explains how to read as well as take sights, how to make adjustments and correct errors and advises on how to handle and care for the sextant.

7th edition, 110pp, illustrated, paperback

RRP £12.99 OUR PRICE £10.45

by Malcolm Pearson

The Reed's Skipper's Handbook, now in its 6th edition, has been a bestseller since first publication. A handy pocket size, it is an aide-memoire of everything a boater would need to know at sea. Packed with a wide range of information in a concise form it is frequently recommended by Yachtmaster Instructors as a quick reference guide and as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster certificates. The 6th edition has been expanded with helpful new material on boat handling, tides, ropework and general seamanship.

Reed's Skipper's Handbook is a must for anyone going to sea in any size of boat - be they novice or old hand.

6th edition 2010, 200pp, full colour, paperback, 160x100 mm.

M. Skene, R. Kenyon, K. Eliott.

A basic textbook teaching the practice of position plotting on a chart, using parallel rulers and dividers. Officially approved for use by the Royal Navy, you need BA 5050 to follow the exercises in the book. Arranged as a progressive learning programme, with questions and answers at every stage.

B/w line drawings. PB. 297pp. Tracings pack included.

by Bruce Bauer

Designed for new and prospective owners of a sextant, this book describes how sextants work, adjustments, accessories, sighting techniques, correcting the sight, care and maintenance, and even a chapter on how to buy a sextant.
Contains lots of good technical information and advice.

192pp, b&w photos and line drawings, paperback
US publication

192pp

By J. Toghill

Instruction for the beginner in the art of navigation. Covers the available devices and how to use them. Whether you choose to plot a course by the stars, or travel in style surrounded by high-tech electronic gear, or work with traditional methods, this is a good introduction.

Pb. 128pp 280x215mm 160 colour photos, 90 diagrams

by Paul Boissier
2011

Whether they are paper or electronic, charts are the most fundamental navigational tool. Making the best use of them requires a great understanding of symbols and abbreviations, as well as an awareness of the limits of accuracy in positions and soundings. 'Understanding a Nautical Chart' not only helps you to read a chart, it allows you to understand that information and use it to navigate safely. Learning the abbreviations and symbols are critical to anybody using a chart and before you can use one, you must know them or at have easy access to the definitions, all of which are included in a full copy of the key to UKHO charts (Chart 5011).

It explains how to establish the accuracy of charts to allow you to navigate with confidence and safety.
Includes a full copy of the key to UKHO chart symbols (Chart 5011).

Paperback, 200pp

RRP £16.99, OUR PRICE £13.99

The Ancient Art of Landfalling in the Pacific
2nd Ed.
1994
by David Lewis

The second edition of David Lewis' classic book on Pacific navigation promises to satisfy all those who have marvelled at the ability of island mariners to navigate hundreds of miles of open ocean without instruments.

Pb. 442pp.

by Bob Sweet
2nd Ed. 2011

The Weekend Navigator teaches you how to navigate using today's tools and methods, including the latest technologies such as smart phones.

In addition to its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital process of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Sweet helps you understand recent options for chartplotters, less expensive handheld GPS units, smart phones, and the navigation possibilities presented by phone apps. New to this edition is a section entitled "Ooops," which provides an insightful collection of boating accident tales resulting from common GPS and chartplotters 'no-nos'.

Pb. 288pp

RRP £19.99 OUR PRICE £15.99

by Tim Thornton

Based on the popular series of articles in Yachting Monthly, this book takes a modern, hands-on look at using PCs at sea.

Topics covered include hardware options (what does what, what is most suitable for your needs, linking equipment); voice communications; data, email and internet; obtaining weather data; navigating with a PC; and entertainment systems.

128pp, colour photos & diagrams, paperback, 2007.

RRP £16.99, OUR PRICE £13.99

Consisting of 4 double sided A5 cards, encapsulated with a heavy duty plastic. Grouped together in one corner so that any sheet may be removed for individual use if required.

Great for cockpit use. Ideal for training and instructional purposes.

From the producers of 'Winning Tides'.

A vinyl graphic to help navigators and tacticians call the accurate laylines - both upwind and downwind, using the true wind angle. Incorporates tidal offset adjustment. This is normally stuck to the deck and it is important to align the bottom with the fore and aft line of the boat.