Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #837263 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Customer Reviews

Splendid, Splendid and Thrice Splendid
Verily the secrets of the ancient Mariners are here paraded for your education, and for the better knowledge of the craft of the Navigator of the Seven Seas you could not find a more concise and witty tome. Delve within, o student, and learn things that the RYA will never tell you, and probably don't know. Make passage using the celestial orbs placed by the Almighty in a very simple manner, if you would like to make it harder, choose any other author.

Lo-tech navigator
A very entertaining and useful book packed with lots of hints, ideas, designs, gadgets etc for those sailors who do not wish to rely entirely on hi-tech electronic aids and systems.
Shows you how to make and use a range of traditional navigation equipment (octant, back-staff, cross-staff, quadrant etc) plus some unusual devices invented by the author. Plenty of colourful photographs and illustrations and some amusing seafaring yarns. I particularly liked the poem which is used to help readers untangle the basics of celestial navigation and the sailing personality quiz which (for me) was spot on.