Stress-Free Navigation

Duncan Wells

Adlard Coles

£17.99

You may feel the chandlery bookshelves already have enough navigation primers for even the most anxious student but this begins with a specific objective: to give a navigator confidence that s/he understands what the electronic are saying and can manage without them if all power dies. It was initially designed for occasional sailors needing help to get a charter boat from the marina out to sea, equipped with a plotter. The lay-out is clear and the material is accessible at different levels: from the person who needs to start from first principles to a sailor whose on-board instrumentation is so sophisticated that it calculates laylines and adjusts the set of the sails needed to achieve them. The promised stress-reduction comes from understanding.