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.

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 £12.99, OUR PRICE £10.99

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 £10.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

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 M. Breach

How to find your position from the Sun, Moon, planets or stars. If you have a sextant, time and this book you can find your position.

For real and aspiring bluewater sailors. Includes complete instruction on how to use a sextant, on making astronomical observations and on how to do the calculations with or without the forms. All tables and the forms needed to make the calculation are available - no need for further almanacs or tables for up to ten years...

142pp

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 Gerry Smith
2nd Ed.

This is a self-teaching book designed for those with a grounding in coastal navigation. Dealing first with the broad concepts of astro navigation, Gerry Smith leads on to develop practice using tables to solve navigation problems as they apply to the average sailor. Meanwhile, the reader is able to evaluate his or her performance by the programmed learning format of the book.

144pp 75 b/w line drawings (Pbk)
246x171mm

RRP £12.99 OUR PRICE £10.50

By T. Cunliffe
2000
Learn how to master the art in easy stages. Starting from a sound foundation of basic concepts and definitions, move on to the hardware: the sextant and how to use it. Within a few pages the author has you down on the beach, shooting the sun. From there it is a short step to working out your latitude from a noon sight, and learning how to plot a position from observation of the sun, planets, moon or stars - wherever you may be on the world's oceans.

Pb 64pp

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

by Mary Blewitt

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.

70pp, 12th edition, paperback.

2nd Ed.
By Tom Cunliffe

Upgrade your navigation to Yachtmaster standard. Now updated to include electronic navigation.

96p 244x185mm 120 b/w photos Pb

RRP £11.95 OUR PRICE £9.99

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)

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 £15.99 OUR PRICE £12.99

by Nigel Calder

Nigel Calder makes sense of the complex array of signs, symbols and graphic elements used in US 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.

160pp, 500 colour images, paperback

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 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 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

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.

by Kenneth Wilkes
Revised by Pat Langley-Price & Philip Ouvry

This book contains everything the ocean navigator needs to work out sight reductions for the sun, the moon, the four navigable planets, the 57 selected stars, and Polaris. Now revised and updated, this book includes the syllabus for the RYA Ocean Yachtmaster certificate.

208pp 25 b/w photos and 91 line drawings

RRP £19.99 OUR PRICE £15.99

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 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 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

'Reed's Astro Navigation Tables' is an established book of annual astro-navigation tables specifically for yachtsmen. It contains all the information the ocean-going sailor needs (without the bulk) in order to navigate by the sun, moon, planets and stars, using tables devised by practical ocean navigators. This book, together with a sextant, will enable sailors to navigate confidently and safely when out of the sight of land.

72pp, paperback, 2008 edition.

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 5th edition has been updated and re-organised to make it even easier for the reader to navigate right to the information they want. There is an expanded section on navigating with electronics and new sections on electronic chart plotters, radar and AIS and new tidal calculation information. Boathandling and Seamanship have also been expanded, and now include advice on leaving a berth with wind and tide, following a transit, negotiating narrow channels, and ropework.

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

5th edition 2007, 192pp, full colour, paperback, 160x100 mm.