Modern Marine Weather By David Burch

A new, comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible.

7.5" x 9.25" paperback, 336 pages, many illustrations.

The Star Finder Book By David Burch

This book turns the 2102-D Star Finder into a hand-held planetarium, which will become your most important tool for star ID and for planning star and planet sights. It also includes many unique practical tables not found elsewhere, such as how to tell the best use of the moon from its age, how to compare brightness of stars and planets in an easy way, which stars are reddish, and more.

7.5" x 9.25", paperback, 62 pages, 85 illus.

Celestial Navigation By David Burch

This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. Includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well. Plus this book covers other crucial factors of ocean navigation besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, etc. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation. Thousands of students have successfully learned celestial from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe.

8.25" x 11", paperback, 247 pages.

Inland and Coastal Navigation By David Burch

Practical small-craft navigation (sail or power) starting from the basics and ending with all that is needed to navigate safely and efficiently on inland and coastal waters in all weather conditions. For beginners and more experienced mariners alike. No previous knowledge is required, we start from the basics. Many thousands of students have successfully learned navigation from these materials and gone on to bare boat chartering or day sailing or world cruising in their own boats.

8.25" x 11", paperback, 230 pages.

Long Term Almanac By Geoffrey Kolbe

Sun and Star Almanac extended to 2050, plus concise sight reduction tables. A complete celestial back-up to GPS.

Second Edition, 7" x 10", paperback, 118 pages.

Radar Workbook By David Burch

Question and answers on marine radar designed to accompany the Radar for Mariners. There are multiple choice questions and "points of ponder" questions for each of the seven lessons listed in our online course on radar along with the anwers. Blank radar plotting sheets are included along with a list of common radar abbreviations. This workbook is in use by the American Sailing Association schools throughout the US that offer a radar endorsement. Anyone who answers all the questions in this workbook has a sound understanding of the fundamentals of marine radar operation.

31 pages, paperback, 8.5" x 11".

Weather Workbook By David Burch

This workbook is intended to supplement the text Modern Marine Weather with practice questions and convenient resources. All answers are provided. The Lesson structure here matches the chapter structure in the textbook. There are multiple choice questions and "points of ponder" questions for each of the ten chapters.

70 pages, paperback, 8.5" x 11".

Marine Weather of Western WA By Kenneth E. Lilly, JR.

The definitive resource for marine weather in the Pacific Northwest — the book's title is far too restrictive for its actual content. Weather patterns discussed apply from northern California, well up into British Columbia, it is just that there are a large number of actual examples from the Puget Sound and San Juan Islands area. All well written on a thorough yet non-technical level. This book includes real data and analysis that will affect how you interpret and apply marine weather information in the Northwest.

150 pages, paperback, 8.5" x 11".

The Navigator's Newsletter By The Navigation Foundation

Besides Foundation news, the newsletters contain member's correspondence, articles on navigation techniques, history of navigation, biographies of individuals important to navigation, book reviews, and navigation practice problems. They have been issued quarterly since 1983.

Quarterly Publication, 12-16 pages, 8.5" x 11".

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Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation

This definitive guide for navigators contains every pertinent piece of information needed to chart an accurate course, whether on open water or between islands - or icebergs. Whether a rank novice or a seasoned kayaking veteran, whether paddling the shoreline of a friendly lake or attempting to cross the Bering Strait, whether a kayaker or a sailor, you will benefit from the indispensable knowledge contained in this book.

Paperback, 7.5" x 9.25," 300 pages, many illustrations, published by Globe Piquot Press, 4th edition, 2008

Emergency Navigation

Once we have learned to navigate by conventional methods using all available equipment in all circumstances, the task of the prudent navigator reduces to learning about weather and how to navigate with only limited instruments or none at all. This book teaches the latter subject.

268 pages, 140 illustrations, paperback, published by McGraw Hill (2008), with a Foreword by David Lewis, author of We, the Navigators

Radar For Mariners

Nothing beats radar for guiding your boat through the darkest night or the thickest fog. Radar enables you to plot a fix from just a single buoy or landmark, and it is the only navigation tool that tells you not just where you are, but who else and What else is out there with you. Today’s smaller, affordable, more powerful radars make more sense than ever for sailors and powerboaters.

250 pages, 7" x 10" paperback, many illustrations, includes a Radar Resources CD. Published by McGraw-Hill.