Description
Yachtmaster Exercises is a partner to Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, providing extra navigational practice for students, helping them to absorb the course theory.
This revision handbook contains practice exercises and test papers with fully explained answers on all parts of the Yachtmaster course, whether sail or power. This essential guide covers chartwork, tides, pilotage and passage planning, as well as seamanship, anchorwork, ropework and rules of the road.
A free practice chart is included, as well as extracts from tide tables, tidal curves, almanacs and pilotage notes so that students can complete the questions, work on real life sailing scenarios and plot their own courses without the need for any other material.
This revised 5th edition includes the latest updates, new artwork and a modern, user-friendly design. It’s an invaluable textbook and exam revision guide for anyone studying for the RYA exams or simply brushing up on their navigation skills.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Exercises
1 Charts
2 Compass
3 Position Fixing
4 Buoys, Lights and Lighthouses
5 Tidal Heights
6 Tidal Streams
7 Course to Steer
8 Dead Reckoning and Estimated Position
9 Electronic navigation and instruments
10 Pilotage
11 Collision Regulations
12 Meteorology
13 Safety and Communications
14 Planning and Making Passages
Chartwork test papers
15 Test Paper 1
16 Test Paper 2
Answers
Extracts
1 Tides: Dover, May to August
2 Tides: Dover, September to December
3 Tidal Streams, based on HW Dover
4 Tidal Streams, based on HW Dover
5 Tides: St Helier
6 Port Information: St Helier
7 Tidal Curves: St Helier
8 Tidal Curves: Cherbourg
9 Tides: Cherbourg
10 Tides: St Malo
11 Tidal Curves: St Malo
12 Port Information: St Malo
13 Port Information: St Peter Port
14 Port Information: Granville and Îles Chausey
15 Port Information: Diélette
16 Deviation Curve
17 Tidal Differences for Cherbourg–Barfleur
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