Navigation Information

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In this section you will find information of use to cruising sailors who are interested in improving their navigation skills. This includes items that pertain to both modern and traditional navigation techniques. For more thorough discussions of navigation and other seamanship topics, please visit our cruising pages.

Charts & Navigation

• Managing the Waterway DVD set of NOAA Charts for US Waters
• Chartwork
• GPS and Nautical Charts
• Dozier's Waterway Guide

Compass

• Compass Types
• Marine Compass
• Swinging a Marine Compass
• Compass Deviation, Declination and Variation

Navigation

• EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radiobeacon)
• Celestial Navigation
• Bowditch -The American Practical Navigator - large pdf 40MB) - The entire book is available, free, in pdf format
• Planispher