Ocean Sailing : Celestial Navigation - Ocean Weather - Passage Making

by Cunliffe, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781898660613
• ISBN10: 1898660611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-21
• Publisher: Wiley Nautical

Summary

Tom Cunliffe has crossed many oceans. If blue water cruising is your game, this is the book for you.Part 1 covers celestial navigation - fixing your position by sextant. This is an interesting and elegant method of knowing where you are - and may save your life some day. Even in this electronic age, it is a skill every skipper should possess.Part 2 looks at the world's weather systems and how to use them to your advantage. Hurricanes and typhoons are analysed - with the emphasis on avoiding them! But if a trade wind squall strikes or an approaching hurricane looks like slipping by your strategic defences, Cunliffe is on hand with remedial advice.Part 3 explains what you actually do out at sea. It covers gathering information, making plans, what to take, how to run watch systems, and the delight of making long passages.

Author Biography

Tom Cunliffe is one of Britains's leading writers on sailing and the sea.  This is his sixth book.  He is regularly published in the UK and USA yachting press.  He is a Yachtmaster instructor and Examiner, with special responsibility for training offshore instructors, and is a consultant for US Sailing.

He has cruised to destinations as diverse as Brazil, Iceland, the Caribbean and Russian, and currently cruises a traditional 40 foot gaff cutter built in modern materials in North America.

Table of Contents

PART ONE --- CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
Introduction	5	(2)
The Earth and the heavens	7	(8)
The sextant	15	(5)
The noon sight for latitude	20	(4)
Time	24	(3)
Position lines and plotting	27	(13)
Tables	30	(10)
Sun sights	40	(4)
The planets	44	(3)
The Moon	47	(3)
The stars	50	(7)
Polaris - the Pole Star	57	(3)
Compass checking on the ocean	60	(2)
The shortest way	62	(3)
PART TWO --- DEEPWATER METEOROLOGY
Ocean meteorology	65	(4)
Tropical weather	69	(4)
The Tropical Revolving Storm	73	(4)
Navigating in the vicinity of a Tropical Revolving Storm	77	(4)
Modern weather forecasting and communications	81	(3)
PART THREE --- THE OCEAN PASSAGE
Ocean passage planning	84	(7)
Making an ocean passage	91