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Who is Michael Briant

La Rochelle Guide Book

 

 

EASY NAVIGATION for Beginners

Have you just purchased a boat or are thinking about learning to sail?

If you want to learn how to navigate with Electronic Chart & Plotters and find out about AIS and Radar then this book is for youI

Dead reckoning navigation was a wonderful and fulfilling ‘art’ form. Now that GPS is here to stay.

 there is no point whatsoever in having a sextant and tables or even paper charts on board and even the compass has become an aid rather than an essential.

With the advent of chart plotters, free chart plotter navigation systems for laptops, your mobile communication device almost certainly having GPS built in, and probably Google or Bing maps, the necessity for paper charts is  totally extinguished.

Whilst even with the most sophisticated of marine electronics there are still a few issues like tidesand the aim of this book is to simplify  and get you heading for new, different, far away places.

                 

Contents

Chapter one           The hardware

 

 Chapter two          GPS or Chart Plotter programming

 Chapter three         Creating waypoints and routes

 Chapter four          Paper chart plotting

 Chapter five           Passage Planning

 Chapter six            Tide tables and tidal streams

 Chapter seven        Radar

 Chapter eight         AIS

 Chapter nine          English Channel Tidal Atlas

£5


 

HOW DOWNLOADS WORK

1) You click on the 'Buy Now'  and that will take you to PayPal where you make the payment via a Credit Card or your PayPal account.

 

2) Having completed the payment you will be taken to a page with a link for the book you have purchased - very simple page that will look something like this:

 

click on the link  PDF or picture and the book will download into your 'device'.

You can choose a folder for it to go into or, normally, it will default into the DOWNLOADS folder..

It is in PDF form so you can print it easily in hard copy or a printer will make it into paperback form with spiral binding or similar.

If you want a hard copy made from your download it will cost around 5 Uk pounds + P&P then try using https://doxzoo.com.

I do not have personal experience of them but they appear to offer a very good service at a reasonable price.

 

If you have any problem with finding the download send me an email to  michael@michaelbriant.com and I will send you another link as soon as I am online....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy Navigation