Navigation: a newcomer’s guide (3rd edition)

Sara Hopkinson

Fernhurst

£12.99

Books like this continue to be needed as new people continue to take up sailing and realise that finding one’s way at sea involves rather more than downloading an app. Sara Hopkinson writes in a reassuring style and gives sensible advice; eg when entering an unfamiliar harbour ‘keep things simple and, in a yacht, use the engine’. Probably this is what a newcomer would do anyway but it’s helpful to have ‘permission’. This book offers basic principles and explanations but contains few practice examples. It might be best used in conjunction with a hands-on course. Hopkinson runs a RYA training school and is offering her diagrams for use by other instructors. Apply to the publishers for these.