Explains how to navigate and improve a boat's performance using electronics. With everything connected to a central computer, the crew can find out the best course to steer to reach their destination. The book helps navigators to choose, install and use the latest electronic equipment.

Thanks to satellite receivers, pinpointing the position of one's boat and navigating to a destination is now a relatively simple matter. But electronics are capable of far more than this. With compass, wind sensors, and speed sensors linked to a central computer, crews can monitor the boat's performance and even sail against an electronic simulation of their boat in prevailing conditions. With almost all sailboats and many motorboats equipped with sophisticated electronics, this book will prove an invaluable guide to just about any boat owner. Key advice is given for the use of GPS, charts and plotters, waypoint navigation, electronic compasses, electronics for racing, and choosing and installing the best equipment for given applications.

• Satellite navigation
• Loran, Decca and Omega
• the dead reckoning computer
• how accurate are they?
• waypoint navigation
• charts and plotters
• electronic compasses
• racing with electronics
• other equipment
• choice and installation