Description: In easy stages sailors can learn how to master one of the oldest of the mariner's arts - celestial navigation.
Brief description:
Tom Cunliffe is Britain's leading sailing writer. He is a worldwide authority on sailing instruction and an expert on traditional sailing craft. His hints and tips could help all yachtsmen!
He has crossed oceans in simple boats without engines or electronics and voyaged to both sides of the Atlantic from Brazil to Iceland and from the Caribbean to Russia. He has cruised the coast of America and Canada and logged thousands of miles exploring both sides of the English Channel.
Tom's nautical career has seen him serve as mate on a merchant ship, captain on gentleman's yachts and skipper of racing craft. His private passion is classic sailing boats and he has owned a series of traditional gaff-rigged vessels that have taken him and his family on countless adventures from tropical rainforests to frozen fjords.
Tom has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978 and has a gift for sharing his knowledge with good humor and an endless supply of tales of the sea.
He also writes for Yachting Monthly, Yachting World and SAIL magazines, and wrote and presented the BBC TV series, The Boats That Built Britain.
Review Quotes: "Tom's warm and humorous writing style makes the book easy to digest, while still explaining the subject in detail." (Yachting Monthly) "He writes with the authority of a man who knows that his methods work in the most testing of all examination rooms, a small boat sailing on the open ocean." (Bill Anderson, Formerly RYA Training Manager) "Gives concise and well-written groundings in the theory and practice of astro-navigation. With the aid of some excellent diagrams and photographs, he explains how to use - and care for - a sextant, take sights, calculate latitude and plot position. He throws in some good worked examples to help, and the book is reinforced by online video tutorials and downloadable blank calculation sheets... Its admirable simplicity and brevity make it a valuable tool." (Telegraph, Sep 2019)