Marine Radar: The Boat Owner’s Complete Guide to Navigation and Collision Avoidance

Radar is the most valuable piece of navigation equipment on your vessel, but only if you know its limitations and how to operate it effectively.
This profusely illustrated book separates the technicalities from fundamental operating advice, to guide you through what radar can do for you, how to set it up and utilise standard functions for navigation and collision avoidance.
The book explains what radar can, and can’t see, and how to avoid unwanted effects which disrupt your observations. Different display modes are discussed, to help you choose the most suitable for different situations.
Details of those parts of the IRPCS Collision Regs which apply specifically to radar use are explained clearly, to help you make the right navigational decisions from your radar observations.
You will learn how to use some of the more advanced features to extend your interpretation of the radar picture, including guard zones, AIS integration and chart overlay.
You will learn the skill of radar plotting, when to use automated tracking functions and how to make quick judgements of a situation more safely.
Tragedies have occurred as a result of small craft not showing up on ships’ radars. So a section on radar reflectors and target enhancers helps you choose the right designs to keep you safe.
Illustrations of the distinctive patterns created on your radar screen by SARTs and RACONS introduce the section of the book which handles more technical matters. The limits on accuracy are discussed and illustrated, and the alternative technology of FMCW or Broadband radar is explained. If you like the technical details of speeds, wavelengths and the like, you can devour the next module, while technophobes can ignore it. The book finishes with an extensive glossary to explain all the acronyms and terms you may not know.
The book closes with a very special discount offer to gain hands-on experience with your own Radar Simulator and further recommended readi