The Lo-Tech Navigator is an entertaining and practical book for those who wish to be less dependent on GPS and electronics. Through a variety of illustrated projects, you can learn to make traditional navigation instruments and explore some unusual and long forgotten techniques. Tony Crowley explains how to: detect sea currents using a kettle; find latitude and longitude by the Pole Star; take sun sights with a cassette holder, find your position through origami, navigate with the aid of poetry, make a compass from a tin lid, self-steer with a tiller sail, search for buried and discover the magic of 6.…mehr
The Lo-Tech Navigator is an entertaining and practical book for those who wish to be less dependent on GPS and electronics. Through a variety of illustrated projects, you can learn to make traditional navigation instruments and explore some unusual and long forgotten techniques. Tony Crowley explains how to: detect sea currents using a kettle; find latitude and longitude by the Pole Star; take sun sights with a cassette holder, find your position through origami, navigate with the aid of poetry, make a compass from a tin lid, self-steer with a tiller sail, search for buried and discover the magic of 6.
Introduction 1. Three compasses for the price of one 2. A sailing personality quiz 3. Gone with the wind - a handheld anemometer 4. Test your knowledge of the wind 5. A tide table holder 6. McGrath's revenge 7. A tide abacus 8. A fatal flaw 9. A handy sun compass 10. Rope trick 11. A drogue log 12. Singlehander--a protractor for knee top navigation 13. The magic of 6 degrees 14. Alcor--the mariner's eyesight test 15. Spice jar navigation lights 16. A ready-made heliograph 17. A weekend sailor's logbook 18. Four moorings and a fiasco 19. Threefold puzzle 20.A hand leadline 21. Reading the sea 22. Self-steering 23. 1912 24. Sun navigation in a nutshell 25. A mariner's quadrant 26. The cross-staff 27. A hi-tech back-staff 28. Henry the octant 29. Dire straits navigation 30. The moon as your compass 31. Survive! 32. Killorain's treasure island 33. A seafarer's sundial 34. Latitude and longitude by compass 35. Where the sky is blue 36. The longitude game 37. Polarum 38. A trick with Kochab 39. I want to be Captain 40. Steering by the stars 41. Plumb-line navigation Appendix 1. Tide abacus scale Appendix 2. Almanac data for use with sundial Appendix 3. Vernier scales Appendix 4. GHA Aries without an almanac References
Introduction 1. Three compasses for the price of one 2. A sailing personality quiz 3. Gone with the wind - a handheld anemometer 4. Test your knowledge of the wind 5. A tide table holder 6. McGrath's revenge 7. A tide abacus 8. A fatal flaw 9. A handy sun compass 10. Rope trick 11. A drogue log 12. Singlehander--a protractor for knee top navigation 13. The magic of 6 degrees 14. Alcor--the mariner's eyesight test 15. Spice jar navigation lights 16. A ready-made heliograph 17. A weekend sailor's logbook 18. Four moorings and a fiasco 19. Threefold puzzle 20.A hand leadline 21. Reading the sea 22. Self-steering 23. 1912 24. Sun navigation in a nutshell 25. A mariner's quadrant 26. The cross-staff 27. A hi-tech back-staff 28. Henry the octant 29. Dire straits navigation 30. The moon as your compass 31. Survive! 32. Killorain's treasure island 33. A seafarer's sundial 34. Latitude and longitude by compass 35. Where the sky is blue 36. The longitude game 37. Polarum 38. A trick with Kochab 39. I want to be Captain 40. Steering by the stars 41. Plumb-line navigation Appendix 1. Tide abacus scale Appendix 2. Almanac data for use with sundial Appendix 3. Vernier scales Appendix 4. GHA Aries without an almanac References
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