Learn Navigation from Tom Cunliffe. Listen to his podcasts here
Author: Tom Cunliffe
When it comes to learning navigation, start with Tom Cunliffe. Having learnt in ‘the school of hard knocks’ he refined his knowledge through decades of professional seafaring, sailing, writing and instructing at all levels. Tom’s mastery of his subject and sheer enthusiasm makes learning navigation straightforward, clear and fun.
These three podcasts, inspired by his new sailing books Inshore Navigation and Coastal and Offshore Navigation, were recorded at Tom’s house on a frosty Monday on December. Having been fortified by Mrs Cunliffe’s excellent tea and bakewell tart we squeezed into Tom’s study and hit the red button.
Podcast 1. ‘The greatest instructor of all is your own humility.’
In this, the first of three sailing podcasts, Tom Cunliffe talks about his own experiences in learning navigation, lifts the lid on what he calls ‘the real black beast of navigation’ and shows that even the best can make the odd mistake… ‘for all I know I was only yards from destruction’.
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Podcast 2: GPS, electronic revolutions and fish and chips
In the second of Tom Cunliffe's navigation podcasts, Tom talks about the revolution in navigation GPS has brought, he weighs up the comparative benefits of paper, raster and vector charts and finishes off with the influence that good passage planning can have on your nautical social life.
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Podcast 3. ‘I ran away to sea on an old Baltic trader, bound for nowhere with a crew of no hopers and not a penny in the pot’
In the last of the three navigation podcasts Tom Cunliffe talks about his sailing career, from gaff cutters on the Norfolk broads, Baltic traders and how he narrowly escaped becoming a barrister. Tom offers experienced advice on how to make a living from the sea.
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