Background
Donald M. Launer was born on March 21, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Clarence Launer, a manager of a mill, and Juliette (Manchet) Launer.
Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
Cornell University
Emmy Award
United States Army (logotype)
(Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of ye...)
Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of years, and navigational technology has progressed exponentially during that time. This concise yet comprehensive volume from popular Sheridan House author Donald Launer begins with the impressive developments in navigation undertaken by early seafarers, and follows the art and science of navigation through the ages to their culmination in the huge advances made by our contemporaries. Launer explores the navigational tools invented by each civilization, and includes generous illustrations to help readers envision the tools used. Written in an accessible, conversational style, with no unexplained jargon or terminology, Navigation Through the Ages will appeal especially to sailors and to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the exploration of our world.
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(With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jerse...)
With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jersey Shore--from New York Harbor to Delaware Bay--in the good company of Captain Donald Launer. Captain Launer brings many years of experience as a skipper of small boats to this engaging nautical and historical guide to New Jersey's tidal waters. Cruise with him from the New Jersey/New York state line near the mouth of the Hudson River, past Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook, and into the Manasquan Inlet. From there, he gives you a choice of voyages: the inside route through the Intracoastal Waterway to Toms River, Barnegat Bay, Atlantic City, and Cape May, or taking the offshore passage. Then you explore the Delaware Bay and its tributaries and cruise up the Delaware River to Trenton. This revised edition contains updated information about onshore facilities, marinas, restaurants, stores, sites of interest, docking fees, bridge heights, maritime service stations, weather, navigation, and safety, as well as post-September 11 regulations in the waters around New York City. The book also includes a wealth of photographs and sea charts. Donald Launer, who holds a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license, has explored the New Jersey waters in every kind of small craft since he first sailed in Barnegat Bay at the age of eight. His articles on recreational boating have appeared in Good Old Boat Magazine, Cruising World, The Beachcomber, Offshore, and Sail. He berths his schooner, Delphinus, in Forked River, New Jersey. With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jersey Shore--from New York Harbor to Delaware Bay--in the good company of Captain Donald Launer. Captain Launer brings many years of experience as a skipper of small boats to this engaging nautical and historical guide to New Jersey's tidal waters. Cruise with him from the New Jersey/New York state line near the mouth of the Hudson River, past Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook, and into the Manasquan Inlet. From there, he gives you a choice of voyages: the inside route through the Intracoastal Waterway to Toms River, Barnegat Bay, Atlantic City, and Cape May, or taking the offshore passage. Then you explore the Delaware Bay and its tributaries and cruise up the Delaware River to Trenton. This revised edition contains updated information about onshore facilities, marinas, restaurants, stores, sites of interest, docking fees, bridge heights, maritime service stations, weather, navigation, and safety, as well as post-September 11 regulations in the waters around New York City. The book also includes a wealth of photographs and sea charts. Donald Launer, who holds a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license, has explored the New Jersey waters in every kind of small craft since he first sailed in Barnegat Bay at the age of eight. His articles on recreational boating have appeared in Good Old Boat Magazine, Cruising World, The Beachcomber, Offshore, and Sail. He berths his schooner, Delphinus, in Forked River, New Jersey.
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(Knowledge and experience from decades of sailing and prov...)
Knowledge and experience from decades of sailing and provides the reader with lots of practical information that will make sailing better, safer and more enjoyable. This book is a compilation of some of the hundreds of articles Launer has written over the years. Most of them originally appeared in Good Old Boat magazine, for which he is Contributing Editor. Others were published in Cruising World, SAIL, and Offshore magazines.
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(This handy Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviati...)
This handy Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviations contains a listing of all the acronyms, abbreviations and truncations that recreational boaters encounter in nautical magazine articles, books, instruction manuals and Coast Guard reports. A reference such as this has never been published before. Part I, with 550 entries with 28 illustrations, is an alphabetical listing of abbreviations, along with an explanation of each. Part II, with 500 entries lists all the abbreviations used on the governments nautical charts.
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educator engineer writer Sailor
Donald M. Launer was born on March 21, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Clarence Launer, a manager of a mill, and Juliette (Manchet) Launer.
Launer attended the Cornell University.
Launer served as a television master control engineer at the American Broadcasting Co. for forty years. He obtained a commercial boat captain’s license from the United States Coast Guard. Launer worked as a water quality tester at the Alliance for a Living Ocean. In addition, he held the position of a lecturer to boating groups. Launer also served at the United States Army from 1944 till 1946, where he became a sergeant. In 1948, he took a job with ABC TV, becoming an engineering supervisor and handling Olympics coverage from 1968 to 1988.
Launer was an author of “Ask the Captain”, a regular column appearing in New Jersey newspapers, including Beachcomber. He was a contributor of a great amount of articles to magazines, including SAIL, Offshore, Ocean Echo, New Jersey Waterways, Good Old Boat Magazine and Cruising World. Launer published books on nautical subjects.
Launer regularly sailed along Barnegat Bay on Delphinus, his schooner, which he built from a bare hull. As an educator, he lectured on nautical history in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
(This handy Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviati...)
(Knowledge and experience from decades of sailing and prov...)
(With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jerse...)
(Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of ye...)
(This is not the usual galley book. Food is barely mention...)
Quotations:
"Much of my writing stems from my love of boats and the water, which began when I built my first boat at age eleven. Now, some sixty years and eighteen boats later, I still enjoy talking and writing about our littoral heritage and subjects pertinent to recreational boating."
"Even if I were physically unable to sail, I would still like to go on the boat and sit there and feel like I was on board."
Launer married Elsie Dill on September 24, 1949. That marriage produced 2 children - Kathryn Launer Davenport and Thomas.