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| Introduction | |
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| Nautical Charts | |
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| The Mercator Projection | |
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| The Nautical Chart | |
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| Basic Chart Information | |
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| The North American Datum of 1983 | |
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| Symbols for Aids to Navigation | |
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| Other Charted Features | |
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| Metrification of Nautical Charts | |
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| Multibeam Survey Maps | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| Navigational Reference Publications and Almanacs | |
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| Nautical Chart Catalogs | |
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| Dates of Latest Editions | |
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| Chart No. 1 | |
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| Light List | |
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| United States Coast Pilot | |
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| Notice to Mariners | |
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| Tide Tables | |
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| Tidal Current Tables | |
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| Tidal Current Charts | |
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| Tidal Current Diagrams | |
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| Rules of the Road | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| The IALA-B Aids to Navigation System | |
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| Port Side Marks or Lateral Marks | |
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| Starboard Side Marks or Lateral Marks | |
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| Safe Water Marks | |
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| Preferred Channel Marks | |
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| Special Marks | |
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| Intracoastal Waterway Aids to Navigation System | |
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| The Uniform State Waterway Marking System | |
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| Reporting Defects and Discrepancies to Aids to Navigation | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| How to Use the Basic Navigational Instruments | |
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| The Magnetic Compass | |
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| Dividers | |
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| Pencils | |
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| Paraglide Plotters | |
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| Parallel Rules | |
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| A Stopwatch | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| Measuring and Plotting Latitude and Longitude | |
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| Latitude | |
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| Longitude | |
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| Technique for Measuring Latitude on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Technique for Measuring Longitude on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Writing and Expressing Latitude and Longitude | |
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| The Safety Aspect of Knowing Latitude and Longitude | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| How to Plot a True Course on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Selecting a Proper Course Line | |
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| How to Measure a Course Line Angle with a Paraglide Plotter | |
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| How to Measure a Course Line Angle with Parallel Rules | |
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| How to Walk Parallel Rules on a Chart | |
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| Labeling Your Course on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| How to Measure Distance on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Dividers: Your Measuring Tool | |
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| Technique for Measuring a Short Distance on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Technique for Measuring a Long Distance on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Labeling Distance on a Nautical Chart | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| Military Time | |
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| How to Add Time | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| How to Subtract Time | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Calculating Your Dead Reckoning Position | |
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| The Piloting Worksheet | |
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| Terminology | |
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| The Dead Reckoning Formula: 60D = ST | |
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| How to Calculate Distance | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| How to Calculate Speed | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| How to Calculate Time | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Labeling Your DR Position | |
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| When You Should Plot Your DR Position | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Converting True Courses to Compass Courses | |
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| Variation | |
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| Deviation | |
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| The Course Conversion Formula | |
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| Course Conversion Techniques | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| Taking and Plotting Bearings | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Taking Bearings | |
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| Labeling Bearing LOPs | |
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| Relative Bearings | |
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| Doubling the Angle on the Bow | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Reader Study Note | |
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| Reader Progress Note | |
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| Review Questions and Answers | |
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| Dead Reckoning | |
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| Piloting Exercise: A Typical Day Cruise | |
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| Electronic Navigation Systems | |
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| LORAN-C | |
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| Global Positioning System | |
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| Screens and Readouts of Electronic Navigation Equipment | |
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| How to Use Electronic Navigational Systems | |
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| The Height of the Tide at Any Time | |
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| Terminology | |
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| The Tide Tables | |
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| Tide Graph: "One-Quarter/One-Tenth Rule" | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| The Rule of Twelves | |
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| Practice Problems and Answers | |
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| Height Available under a Bridge | |
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| Summary | |
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| Compensating Your Course for Current and Other Elements | |
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| Correcting Your Course for Current | |
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| Where Do You Find Information about Tides and Currents? | |
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| The Effects of Current | |
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| The Before and After Current Problem | |
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| Using Tables to Correct for Current | |
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| Correcting Predicted Speed for Weight Change | |
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| Correcting Predicted Speed for Depth of Water | |
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| Correcting Predicted Speed for Wind | |
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| Estimating the Set and Drift of a Current from Buoys | |
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| Summary | |
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| How to Check the Installation Accuracy of Your Compass and Install an Aiming Post | |
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| How to Check Your Compass for Built-in Error | |
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| How to Develop Data for a Deviation Table Using Multiple Ranges and Your Boat's Compass | |
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| How to Develop Data for a Deviation Table Using One Range and a Pelorus | |
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| How to Plot Deviation on a Deviation Plotting Sheet | |
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| How to Plot Magnetic Heading Deviations | |
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| How to Plot Compass Heading Deviations | |
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| How to Develop a Speed Curve | |
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| Equipment You Will Need | |
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| How the Data Collection Process Works | |
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| Use of a Speed Curve or RPM Table | |
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| Navigation Forms | |
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| Piloting Practice Chart | |
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| Piloting Worksheet | |
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| Tide Graph | |
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| Deviation Planning Sheet | |
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| Deviation Plotting Sheet | |
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| Deviation Table | |
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| Speed Curve Worksheet | |
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| Trip Log | |
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| Coast Guard Districts and Addresses of District Commanders | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |