Description

Navigation Advanced for Mates/Masters – Second Edition

This guide is designed to help develop advanced navigational skills. It covers topics such as regulatory requirements, passage planning, bridge procedures, marine communications and ECDIS.

The information in this publication is supported by a number of worked examples, plots, templates for working and exercises. It can be used as a self-study guide to build navigational skills or as a source of reference onboard.

Content listing:

Author’s Preface

1. Regulatory Requirements

2. Passage Planning

3. Sailings

4. Ocean Routeing

5. Bridge Procedures

6. Radar Navigation

7. Extreme Weather and Navigation

8. Celestial Navigation

9. Electronic Navigation Aids

10. Tides and Tidal Streams

11. Marine Communications

12. Search and Rescue at Sea

13. Offshore Installations and Navigation

14. ECDIS and IBS

Further Exercises

Answers

Almanac Data

Glossary of Abbreviations

References

Bibliography

Index

Templates

Radar Plotting Sheet

Appendix