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, This is the best selling boating-book ever.
1,000,000 copies sold.
Everything a marine navigator could possibly need to know.

In 2012 this eBook Professional edition was updated with hyperlinks to wikipedia so that the reader will have instant access to the lastest information and also references to other books.

Updated by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency USA Government Publication.

Although it appears intimidating, it's actually quite readable. It happens also to be the very pinnacle of all marine navigation guides; all others refer to it and
every navigator/pilot has a copy.
It's enormous in both physical volume and weight.

37 Chapters.Fully illustrated in color.

PART 1 — FUNDAMENTALS

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO MARINE NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 2. GEODESY AND DATUMS IN NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 3. NAUTICAL CHARTS.
CHAPTER 4. NAUTICAL PUBLICATIONS

PART 2 — PILOTING

CHAPTER 5. SHORT RANGE AIDS TO NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 6. COMPASSES.
CHAPTER 7. DEAD RECKONING.
CHAPTER 8. PILOTING.
CHAPTER 9. TIDES AND TIDAL CURRENTS.

PART 3 — ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION

CHAPTER 10. RADIO WAVES.
CHAPTER 11. SATELLITE NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 12. LORAN NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 13. RADAR NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 14. ELECTRONIC CHARTS.

PART 4 — CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

CHAPTER 15. NAVIGATIONAL ASTRONOMY.
CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENTS FOR CELESTIAL NAVIGATION.
CHAPTER 17. AZIMUTHS AND AMPLITUDES.
CHAPTER 18. TIME.
CHAPTER 19. THE ALMANACS.
CHAPTER 20. SIGHT REDUCTION.

PART 5 — NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS

CHAPTER 21. NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS.
CHAPTER 22. CALCULATIONS AND CONVERSIONS.
CHAPTER 23. NAVIGATIONAL ERRORS.
CHAPTER 24. THE SAILINGS.

PART 6 — NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY

CHAPTER 25. NAVIGATION PROCESSES.
CHAPTER 26. EMERGENCY NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 27. NAVIGATION REGULATIONS.
CHAPTER 28. MARITIME SAFETY SYSTEMS.
CHAPTER 29. HYDROGRAPHY.

PART 7 — OCEANOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 30. THE OCEANS.
CHAPTER 31. OCEAN CURRENTS.
CHAPTER 32. WAVES, BREAKERS AND SURF.
CHAPTER 33. ICE NAVIGATION.

PART 8 — MARINE METEOROLOGY

CHAPTER 34. WEATHER ELEMENTS.
CHAPTER 35. TROPICAL CYCLONES.
CHAPTER 36. WEATHER OBSERVATIONS.
CHAPTER 37. WEATHER ROUTING.