Inshore Navigation

Navigation is a subject best learned outside the classroom so this book is written to get you started as soon as possible. Once you've mastered a few simple principles, it helps you to get afloat and stay out of trouble as you learn the necessities and build confidence. Using straightforward explanations and clear illustrations, Inshore Navigation goes straight to the heart of each topic. This is the definitive guide for everyone who wants to learn navigation easily, quickly and safely.

Praise for Inshore Navigation

"This is a comprehensive navigation book for beginners...no complex jargon, just simple step by step explanations."
— Sailing Today

"Inshore Navigation is the definitive beginner's guide to marine navigation."
— Boat Mart

"This is a great read for anyone new to navigation and is very much recommended for any trainees on the Day Skipper course. For those of us that rely (over rely?) mostly on electronic navigation, it wouldn't do any harm to brush through this book to refresh one's knowledge."
— Little Ship Club

About the Author

Tom Cunliffe is Britain's leading sailing writer. A worldwide authority on cruising instruction and an expert on traditional sailing craft, he learnt his sextant skills during numerous ocean passages, many in simple boats without engines or electronics, voyaging from Brazil to Greenland and from the Caribbean to Russia. He is the author of the yachtsman's guide to 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. 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, but he now sails a modern classic 44-foot cutter which he keeps in Scandinavia.

Tom has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978 and has a gift for sharing his knowledge with good humour and an endless supply of tales of the sea. He has monthly columns in Sailing Today, Classic Boat, Yachting World and SAIL (US) magazines. He wrote and presented the BBC TV series, 'The Boats That Built Britain' and the popular 'Boatyard' series. During lockdown he set up an online club for sailors worldwide.

About Fernhurst Books

Fernhurst Books was founded in 1979, initially publishing books related to dinghy racing. The list soon expanded to include cruising and other watersports. In 2006 the business was sold to John Wiley, but in 2013 a group of sailing enthusiasts (including the original founder) bought the list and name back, once again creating an independent nautical publisher owned and run by sailors. Fernhurst continues to publish books that instruct, inform and inspire those with a passion on, in or under the water. Their 140+ titles range from how-to guides to narrative to coffee-table books, covering sailing, surfing, canoeing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, swimming, diving and fishing.