Emergency Navigation: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner, 2nd Edition

Emergency Navigation: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner, 2nd Edition

<p><b>Find Your Way at Sea, No Matter What</b> <p>“Inherently interesting and fun to read . . . provides the clearest understanding of general navigation principles we've seen yet.”--BoatU.S. <p>“Thorough and authoritative.”--<i>Sea Kayaker</i> <p>“A definitive work of instant appeal to seamen of all levels of experience.”--The Navigation Foundation <p>Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether you’re safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have. Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a pair of sunglasses, Burch explains how to make use of all available means--from the ancient skills of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead--to calculate speed, direction, latitude, and longitude and to perform all aspects of piloting and dead reckoning. Learn how to <ul> <li>Steer by sun, stars, wind, and swells <li>Estimate current and leeway <li>Improvise your own knotmeter or plumb-bob sextant <li>Find the sun in a fogbank <li>Estimate latitude with a plate and a knotted string <li>And more vital information </ul>