Practical Navigation for the Modern Boat Owner -- Contents -- Cover points -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Global Positioning System -- How Your GPS Receiver Tells You Which Satellites It Can See -- How GPS Works -- Accuracy of the Fix -- GPS Blackout -- Deliberate Interference -- GPS Is Line of Sight -- Selective Availability -- Differential GPS -- Wide Area Augmentation Service -- Switch-On Delays -- Measurement of Speed -- Measurement of Course -- Measurement of Heading -- Errors in COG and SOG -- Chapter 2 Our Address on the Earth's Surface -- The Equator -- Latitude -- Greenwich Meridian -- Longitude -- Our Address -- International Date Line -- Measurement of Latitude and Longitude -- Distance and Direction -- Direction -- The Flat Earth -- The Spherical Earth and 'Map Data' -- Chart Errors -- Chart Scale -- Measuring Latitude and Longitude -- Chart Symbols -- Chapter 3 The Magnetic Compass -- The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Steering Compasses -- Compass Deviation -- Compass Correction -- DIY Compass 'Swing' -- Fluxgate Compasses -- Chapter 4 Constructing a Route -- Using Second-Hand Waypoints -- Loading the Route into the GPS -- Constructing a Route on an Electronic Chartplotter or PC -- Chapter 5 Tides -- Tidal Heights -- Tidal Flow -- Finding the Value of the Tidal Flow -- Chapter 6 Boat Speed -- Speed over the Ground -- Speed Through the Water -- Measuring Speed Through the Water -- Log Errors -- Chapter 7 Depth Sounders -- How They Work -- Depth Units -- Calibration -- Depth Alarms -- False Echoes -- Fishfinders -- Chapter 8 Finding Position -- GPS -- Other Methods -- Position Lines -- Fixing Your Position Using Position Lines -- Errors in Position Lines -- How Far Can You See? -- When All Else Fails -- Chartplotters -- Chapter 9 Passage Planning -- Overview -- Detailed Plan -- Just Prior to Departure.

Passage Planning - Procedure -- Preplan -- For the Planned Day of Departure -- Passage Making -- Passage Grid -- Approach 'Spider's Web' -- Compass Rose as a Waypoint -- Unmarked Danger as a Waypoint -- Clearing Bearing -- Chapter 10 Pilotage -- Who Does the Piloting? -- Means of Pilotage -- International System of Buoyage -- International Buoyage - All Areas -- Planning -- The Basics of Preparing a Pilot Plan -- Making a Pilotage Plan -- Working as a Team -- Chapter 11 Automatic Identification System -- What is Automatic Identification System? -- How Does AIS Work? -- Class A AIS -- Class B AIS -- AIS Displays -- The AIS Display on a Chartplotter -- AIS Class B Transceiver -- Chapter 12 Radar -- How Radar Works -- Navigation Using Radar -- Pilotage Using Radar -- Radar Overlay on a Chart Plotter -- Setting up Your Radar -- Radar Used for Collision Avoidance -- Chapter 13 Autopilots -- Types of Autopilot -- Using the Autopilot -- Chapter 14 Personal Computers -- What Type of PC? -- What Make of Chart-Plotting Software? -- What Type of Electronic Charts? -- Electronic Charts for PC Based Chartplotters -- Selecting the Software -- Constructing a Route -- Sailing Yacht Route Planning -- Sending the Route to the GPS -- AIS on a PC -- Radar on a PC -- Navtex on a PC -- Tides on a PC -- Connecting to the Boat's Systems -- Appendix A Deduced Reckoning and Estimated Position -- DR Navigation -- Estimated Position -- Leeway -- Error in EP -- EP with Multiple Headings -- Appendix B Course to Steer -- Where Do You Want to Go? -- What Time Interval Do You Choose? -- Draw in the Tide -- Draw in the Boat Speed -- Ground Speed -- Comparison with EP -- Appendix C Tidal Heights and Tidal Streams -- Atmospheric Pressure Corrections -- Tide Tables -- UKHO Tidal Predictions -- SHOM Tidal Predictions -- Tidal Streams -- Appendix D Tidal Planning and Plotting.

A Long Passage Using a Single CTS -- Where will the Tide Take You? -- Credits.