The complete deck officers, RYA, AYF, and SA sailing syllabus - Celestial Navigation for Deck Officers and for Yachtmasters Ocean. This training course has been approved by South African Maritime Safety Authority and consists of two parts: Part 1 - Navigation, and Part 2 - Tables & worked solutions plus meteorology and passage planning.
Here is a basic beginner’s book introducing the tyro to the tools, the vocabulary, and the techniques of celestial navigation. Among the recommended tools are the H.O. 249 Tables, widely used by navigators at sea, because of their simplicity. If you can read, add and subtract, understand angles, and use a protractor, you can learn to navigate in your armchair or at sea from this book. SC, 200…
This book is used in the Starpath Navigation Course. The course itself contains many other products and online resources. But this is merely the book which is an excellent text. The 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. No previous navigation experie…
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts …
An essential reference written for the marine industry and seafarers around the world, Cargo Work has been fully revised and expanded to cover the key classes of cargo, regarding the handling, stowage and carriage of all major commodities by marine transports. The book provides a general guide to the movement of a wide range of cargoes safely, under the latest international regulations affec…
Previously published as Kemp & Young's Cargo Work, this new edition has been fully revised and expanded to comprehensively reflect unit load containerised systems that are now used in the majority of cargo shipping, while retaining the necessary detail on transporting key classes of cargoes safely, efficiently and profitably. This is an essential reference for merchant seamen internationally. …
This unique illustrated guide for masters, ships' officers and others associated with the carriage of cargo explains how to avoid problems and disputes arising from incorrect usage of natural and mechanical hold-ventilation systems on cargo ships. Incorrect use of ventilation can lead to extensive cargo damage from ship's sweat, cargo sweat, rainwater, seaspray, overheating or excessive cooling…