A Practical Guide to Coastal Navigation

A Practical Guide to Coastal Navigation can teach you how to locate your present position by more than one method, how to tell from a chart what dangers may exist between your present location and your destination, how to recognize the many aids of navigation maintained to assist you, how to understand your primary directional instrument, the compass, how to track your progress by traditional methods as a check on the electronic devices, ho to learn the capabilities and limitations of the various electronic "black boxes," how to determine how your progress may be affected by tides and currents, and how to interpret weather conditions and impending changes.Jeff Markell is the author of 'A Practical Guide to Coastal Navigation' with ISBN 9781577850564 and ISBN 1577850564.