Modern Marine Weather - Softcover

Burch, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914025082 ISBN 13: 9780914025085

Publisher: Starpath Publications, 2008

Synopsis

A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, QuikSCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources. ¢ "No subject is more important to every sailor than the wind and its direction. Modern Marine Weather is first class reference book on the subject of marine weather and the information it contains will help every sailor, every day!" Peter Isler, two-time America's Cup winning navigator. ¢ An invaluable resource that belongs in the wheelhouse along side of Bowditch From the Foreword by Lee Chesneau

About this title

From the Author:

Also from David Burch: 
Celestial Navigation - A Complete Home Study Course
Radar For Mariners
Emergency Navigation
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
The Barometer Handbook
How to use Plastic Sextants - with application to metal sextants and a review of sextant piloting
The Star Finder Book - A guide to the many uses of the 2102-D Star Finder

From the Back Cover:

David Burch is also the author of:

The Barometer Handbook—A Modern Look at Barometers and Applications of Barometric Pressure

The Starpath Weather Trainer Live, an interactive Windows software training tool and resource for PCs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Starpath Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0914025082
• ISBN 13: 9780914025085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Illustrator: Burch Tobias