The RYA Book of Navigation Exercises

Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical, 1997 £ 12.99

These exercises will help us all to brush up our navigation skills. Exercises are written to the RYA syllabus and use the same practice tables. If all questions can be answered then you have the knowledge required to be a RYA Yachtmaster or Coastal Skipper. Day Skippers should be able to answer the first parts of each exercise. Admiralty Practice chart 5055 – Newhaven to Calais – is included. No further charts, almanacs or pilot books are required. Thank heaven the point is made that only 2B pencils should be used. I always throw anything harder overboard. Just try and get those impressions off expensive charts.

The exercises are written by two experienced navigation instructors. They cover everything from Nautical Terms and Seamanship through Collision Regulations to Tides, Buoyage, Pilotage and Passage Making. The answers are given to the rigorous standards required by the RYA examiners. Accuracy is expected to be Dining Room Table standards of 0.1 mile, and 1.0 degree for chartwork and 0.1 metre for tidal calculations. A few weeks at sea will soon show practical figures are much worse, but experience can compensate. If you wish to pass the RYA exams then this is the book for you. – MJ

Page prepared 21 June 1999