Starpath Catalog - Books Index

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Emergency Navigation second edition
by David Burch

How to find your position and shape a course to safety with limited or no instruments at all. Second edition, 2008.

Celestial Navigation, Second Edition
by David Burch

The textbook used in our online and home-study celestial nav course. Covers all aspects of ocean navigation. Also available in Hardcover.

Introduction to
Electronic Chart Navigation
by David Burch

A comprehensive guide to electronic chart navigation using vector charts, including an annotated list of ECDIS chart symbols.

Radar For Mariners, Revised Edition
by David Burch

Covers principles and practical use of radar. Used in our online course.

ENC Essentials
by David Burch

A short guide to a quick start use of electronic navigational charts

Electronic Chart Symbols

A compilation of nautical chart symbols used on electronic navigational charts (ENC).

Radar Workbook
By David Burch and Larry Brandt

Question and answers on marine radar. Supplement to Radar for Mariners

Modern Marine Weather, 3rd edition
by David Burch

From time honored maritime traditions to the latest technology. A highly-recommended text on practical marine weather. Also available in Hardcover.

Weather Workbook

Question and answers and resources on marine weather. Supplement to Modern Marine Weather

Inland and Coastal Navigation, 2nd Edition
By David Burch

A thorough, easy-to-read treatment of both traditional and modern small-craft navigation for power and sail.

Emergency Navigation Card

8.5 x 11 in, 30 mil laminated vinyl, printed both sides, water resistant.

Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr
By David Burch and Larry Brandt

Realistic, up-to-date practice exercises in all phases of small-craft navigation, power and sail, with excerpts from all required resources provided. Uses training chart 18465 Tr.

Navigation Workbook for Practice Underway

The next step beyond textbook and classroom.

Navigation Workbook 1210 Tr
By David Burch and Larry Brandt

Realistic, up-to-date practice exercises in all phases of small-craft navigation, power and sail, with excerpts from all required resources provided. Uses training chart 1210 Tr.

Hawaii By Sextant
By David Burch and Stephen Miller

An In-depth Exercise in Celestial Navigation Using Real Sextant Sights and Logbook Entries.

GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
By David Burch

No power? Batteries used up? This book and a Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on.

Starpath Celestial Navigation Work Forms
By David Burch

For All Sights and Tables, with Complete Instructions and Examples

How to use Plastic Sextants
— with Applications to Metal Sextants
and a Review of Sextant Piloting

by David Burch

Optimize your sextant sights, plastic and metal

Stark Tables for Clearing the Lunar Distance
by Bruce Stark

Find GMT from sextant sights and become an expert at cel nav in doing so.

Long Term Almanac
by Dr. Geoffrey Kolbe

Nautical Almanac data for sun and stars valid till 2050

Tidal Currents of Puget Sound
by NOAA, University of WA Dept. of Oceanography,
and WA Sea Grant

Current Charts plus Tide Prints of Puget Sound.

Mariners Pressure Atlas

Worldwide Mean Sea Level Pressures and Standard Deviations for Weather Analysis and Tropical Storm Warning.

Use of the Air Almanac for Marine Navigation
by David Burch

A detailed and comprehensive look at the Air Almanac and how to use it for navigation at sea.

1981 Nautical Almanac

1981 Nautical Almananc for use with USCG celestial navigation exam problems.

We the Navigators
By David Lewis

The classic study of Polynesian navigation and early long-distance voyages by sailing canoe.

Sailors Logbook

Ideal logbook for day sails or ocean passages, racing or cruising.

Secrets of the Viking Navigators
by Leif K. Karlsen

A new look at viking navigation, sun stones, and related topics

The Star Finder Book, 3rd ed.
by David Burch

A complete guide to the many uses of the 2102-D star finder. Turns the Star Finder into a hand-held planetarium.

North Star to Southern Cross
by Ray Lanterman and Wil Kyselka

Enlighten your star gazing underway with some mythology, some astronomy, and excellent monthly star maps.

Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
by David Burch

Recommended by Kayak instructors, worldwide. New revised 4th edition, from Starpath Publications. Includes detailed coverage of currents and the Nav Rules.