Customer Reviews

The Lo-Tech Navigator

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Very unusual book - can't say that I've ever seen one like it.

Lots of ideas for piloting and navigating without the need for expensive equipment. Show you how to make a number of traditional navigation instruments and some very unusual ones accompanied by amusing tales and experiences. Anyone who enjoys sailing and navigation will love it.

The Lo-Tech Navigator is a straightforward and practical guide to navigating at sea without the use of modern computers and advanced navigational devices. Such devices are useful, but sometimes they fail; and sometimes sailors can't afford such tools to begin with. The Lo-Tech Navigator discusses how to build and use simple compasses, sextants, and other simple tools that can cultivate navigational skills while saving hundreds of dollars. The basic mathematical formulas for calculating such things as longitude are described with examples. Color photographs and poetry releated to seafaring sprinkle amid this superb resource, recommended for all sea voyagers - it's always good to back up one's aids and gadgets with good old-fashioned knowledge.

As a former sailor, I purchased this book as a resource to help introduce my children to the "art" of navigation. I wanted my children to understand that there is more to navigation than a compass or a GPS and this book hits the nail on the head. The projects will give kids (and some adults) a better understanding of navigational techniques. Five stars for sure!!!

The organization and contents are a bit strange (it includes stories and a quiz); but there are several interesting tips and techniques and a few ways to build basic backup instruments for negligible cost. As a novice, I need more info; but I'm not sorry I bought this and I will keep it.

Although having read many books on celestial navigation and practiced it occasionally, this is the first book that gave me a clear mental picture of what I was calculating when I did the calculations. The many other navigation tools and techniques presented were very useful and, although secondary to me personally, were still of great value for situations without high technology.

Elbert

I found this book while looking for books on celestial navigation. This is one is not specifically about celestial navigation (though it does have some excellent ideas and strategies for low-tech celestial, too) but when I read the description it looked interesting. So I decided to get it and check it out.

I was not at all disappointed. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it and have learned the proverbial "boat load" (no pun intended) from it. I just wish I could remember all of it!

It was a fun read and very, very interesting. I loved it.

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this book is phenomenal. though i wish i had more time to read this more throughly i've noticed some out of the box ideas involving the magnetic strength of a location by using a compass. for the most part this book is not for the stargazer wannabees, look elsewhere for that. over here you'll find handy ideas like using the wind to stir your boat if your alone, so you can busy yourself cooking or other neccessary work. he also uses the sun and mathematical approaches quite often to solve the problems of firguring out where you are in the world. i would say this is for the survivalist who want to go out to sea is the best way to describe the kind of person who would want to buy this book

Just book for kids, that's it. Almost totally irrelevant for adults interested in emergency navigation for any practical purpose. Also, as in many other similar books, the issues of celestial navigation in southern hemisphere are totally ignored.

Has some good information but it is written in a kids book type format with silly irrelavent tests and stories that don't relate at all to the subject matter. Would be good to teach kids from but if you have any celestial navigation experience and some common sense not really worth your time... probably entertaining for the armchair sailor.