Product Description

A companion to "The RYA Book of Navigation", this book provides practice questions and answers at both Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster levels. These exercises provide a 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #771536 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Clear and simple, suitable for beginers.
This is a book for learning navigation evenif you do not know the basics. It is a very good book for beginers. It is clear and simple. It is suitable for learning navigation quickly.

Not 'all' chart work
The book contains 16 exercises:

(1) Nautical Terms & Seamanship, (2) Chart Familiarisation, (3) Compass, (4) Position Fixing, (5) Collision Regs, (6) Safety, (7) Tidal Heights, (8)Tidal Streams, (9) Estimated position, (10) Buoyage & Lights, (11) Course to steer, (12) Navigation instruments, (13)Pilotage, (14) Meteorology, (15) Passage Planning, (16) Passage Making.

Each of the 16 exercises is divided into a number of questions. All the answers are provided in the second section with portions of chart reproduced as appropriate. Where an answer merits an explanation or working they are provided.

A copy of the most recent RYA training chart 1 is included.

I had assumed that this book would be ALL chart exercises, it isn't. Having said that I'm sure that it will be a genuine assistance in achieving the RYA qualifications.

Very helpful supplement to the RYA theory coarse.
A very useful addition to revising except for incorrect extract for Margate Secondry port P 79. which caused hours of distress 1 day before exam wondering if I'd totally misunderstood concept of Secondry Ports"