by Claud Worth
Another title by one of the best of the earlier cruisers. From the preface: "The first half of this volume deals with the principles of navigation and practical methods suitable for use in a yacht. Then follow chapters on coastal cruising and pilotage, deep water cruising, provisioning, etc. Accounts of voyages in Tern III and Tern IV are included because they serve to illustrate the navigation and general management of a yacht at sea and because it is hoped that they may prove interesting." The navigation coverage includes: Charts; The Compass; Tides; The Lead and the Log; Coastal Navigation or Pilotage; Plane Sailing; The Sextant; The Chronometer; Definitions and Explanations of Trigonometrical Ratios, Logarithms in Navigation and Notations of Time; Time and Right Ascension and Declination; Minor Problems of Longitude and Time, To Correct the Declination, Right Ascension and Equation of Time, Local Time, and the Azimuth; On Finding the Ship's Position from Observed Altitudes of Heavenly Bodies; The "New Navigation" or Modified Sumner Method; Latitude by Meridian Altitude of the Sun; Longitude by Chronometer; How to Recognise the Stars; To Identify an Unknown Star; How to Observe Stars; Position Line from Observation of a Star or a Planet; Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star or Planet and Latitude by the Pole Star.
For Worth's other title, Yacht Cruising , please go here.
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