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Short-handed Navigation: How to Create Your ‘Road Book’
Navigating when sailing short-handed can be an often-overlooked challenge. It can throw up stressful situations, particularly when it is the responsibility of just one member of the crew, ...
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The Advantages of Old School Navigation Tools
Bill Biewenga discusses his favorite manual navigation tools. Originally published in BWS January 2016 I’m scrambling. With one and a half days before I fly to France for ...
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The Advantages of Integrated Navigation and Routing Systems
Last November, I was lucky to join Rick and Julie Palm for the passage south from Hampton, VA to the British Virgin Islands aboard their new Outremer 51 ...
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7 Sailing Navigation Highlights for Safety
Captain John of skippertips.com reminds us to use these simple planning steps for safer sailing. Did you know that you can complete about 90% of all sailing navigation ...
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How to Sail Into a Harbor Using Chart Insets
Capt. John of skippertips.com reminds us of the usefulness of chart insets when planning a trip.[spacer height=”10px”] Imagine that you plan to sail to a new anchorage in a cove to ...
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Google Earth Navigation
Cruising in remote tropical regions can be challenging, especially where there are no charts suitable for pilotage. Often the charts that do exist are old and inaccurate. To ...
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Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation Courses
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by ...
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