RYA Navigation Handbook

The Navigation Handbook from the Royal Yachting Association is the recommended text for anyone doing the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased course and a core text for the RYA Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course sail or power. It is also ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about navigation.

With the aid of coloured imagery, this handbook covers the traditional and latest electronic navigation methods. With chapters on position, direction, distance, depth and height, charts, position fixing, tides and tidal streams, course to steer and EP, lights, buoys and beacons, pilotage, passage making. In the appendix you will find information on interfacing, loran, radar, tide levels and datums and Admiralty chart symbols.

This handbook is written by the Tim Bartlett, a leading expert on navigation.