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- A Navigator’s Most Trusted Companion 1 Chart and Publication Secrets
- Chart Tints and Coloring
- Flat Beach, High Cliff s, or Soaring Peaks?
- How to Interpret Water Depths and Seabed Characteristics
- Height Measurements for Safe Passage
- Symbols Th at Shout “Danger!” and “Beware!”
- Solve the Mystery of Aid-to-Navigation Symbols
- Ranges Lead You to Safety
- Th e Five Secrets for Visualizing Any Aid to Navigation
- Chart Notes: Nuggets of Hidden Gold
- Are Your Charts Up-to-Date?
- Free Code-Breaker for 36,000 Mariners’ Friends
- Free Cruising Guides to Take You Anywhere
- Skipper’s Navigation Tools 2 Chart Plotting and Preparation
- Quick-and-Easy Review of Latitude and Longitude
- How to Choose the Chart Scale You Need
- Box-Plot Your Position
- How to Convert Minutes, Seconds, or Degrees to Miles
- True versus Magnetic Directions and Two Ways to Find Variation
- Check Your Steering Compass in Th ree Easy Steps
- Bulletproof Your Charts for Longer Life
- Paper Chartlets for Cockpit Ease
- Complete 90% of Your Navigation by Annotation
- Save Time with Custom Distance Scales
- Invaluable Copilot: Th e Navigator’s Log
- Lightning Fast Arrival Time Estimates 3 E a s y Calculations and Adjustments
- How to Make a Speed Graph in Th ree Easy Steps
- Navigation Solutions in Less than 5 Seconds
- Harness the Power of the 3-Minute Rule
- How to Select and Calibrate a New Compass
- How to Choose and Adjust Marine Binoculars
- How to Adjust a Sextant in Th ree Steps
- How to Adjust Your Radar for the Best Picture
- DR Plotting and the Boat-Trackline Connection 4 Piloting Tips and Techniques
- How to Become Piloting Sequence Savvy
- How to Determine When You Will Make Landfall
- Secrets of the Most Accurate LOP on Earth
- A Simple Solution to Running-Fix Confusion
- Longshore Piloting When Landfall Is in Doubt
- How to Avoid Hazards with Danger Bearings
- How to Clear Hazards without Plotting on a Chart
- Depth Contour Secrets
- Magic Boat Markers for Distance Off
- Make a GPS Grid Highway to Avoid Dangers
- How to Plot a GPS Position in Less than 5 Seconds
- Sail a Tacking Cone to a Windward Destination
- ICW Secrets: Channel Jogs and Marker Silhouettes
- How to Predict Tides Anywhere in the World 5 Tides, Currents, and Leeway
- Th e Secret to Understanding Tidal Currents
- Tap the Magic of the 50-90-100 Rule
- Slack Intervals: Nature’s Gift to Mariners
- How to Measure the Eff ect of Current in Th ree Easy Steps
- How to Cross the Gulf Stream or Any Other Ocean Current
- How to Correct for Leeway Wind Drift
- Cracking the Mystery of Bridge Lighting Navigation Situations
- Use the Secret of “Triple Timing” to Verify a Lighted ATON
- How to Use S.T.O.P. for Easy Orientation
- Range Sector Strategy Secrets
- Red Sectors Give Instant Danger Bearings
- Bearing Drift : A First Sign that Danger Exists 7 Avoiding Collision by Eye or Radar
- Use Sectoring to Track a Crossing or Overtaking Vessel
- Caught in a Ship’s Blind Spot!
- How to Identify Motionless Contacts on Your Radar
- Avoiding Collisions the E.A.S.A. Way
- How to Cross behind a Stern-Towing Tug
- Identify Vessels Towing Barges Alongside or Pushing Th em Ahead
- Quick Guide for Sailboat-to-Sailboat Situations
- How to Become Sound Signal Savvy
- How to Use the Th ree Factors of the Lookout
- Radar Scope Plotting
- A Simple User’s Guide to Inboard Diesel Engine Maintenance Seamanship
- How to Manually Shut Down a Diesel Engine
- How to Stop a Runaway Engine
- Fighting Engineroom Fires by Remote Control
- Stay Safe When Hooking Up Shore Power
- Wake Control and Emergency Wake Breaking
- Decisions to Make Before Running an Inlet
- How to Make a Fuel Consumption Graph
- Th e Sailing Skipper’s Eight-Component Inspection 9 Sailboat Seamanship
- Clearing Up the Mystery of Apparent Wind
- How to Determine Wind Forces
- Main Propulsion Unit How to Shape the Mainsail, a Sailboat’s
- How to Shape Headsails for Power or Speed
- Th ree Easy Steps for Heavy Weather Control
- How to Remove a Jammed Sheet from a Winch
- How to Sail Home if the Steering Fails
- How to Prevent an Accidental Jibe
- How to Short Tack in a Narrow Channel
- Single-Screw Boat-Handling Secrets 10 Docking Seamanship
- Twin-Screw Boat-Handling Secrets
- Docking and Undocking with One Spring Line
- Working into a Slip under Main or Headsail
- How to Parallel Park between Two Boats
- How to Warp a Boat around a Pier or Piling
- Engine How to Dock a Twin-Screw Boat with One Working
- How to Choose the Right Anchors for Your Boat 11 Anchoring and Marlinspike Seamanship
- Choose the Proper Anchor Rode for Safety
- Horizontal Loading: Th e Secret to Drag Prevention
- Th e Five-Factor Guide to a Secure Anchorage
- How to Increase an Anchor’s Holding Power
- How to Rig a Two-Anchor Mooring System
- Secrets to Anchoring under Power
- Anchoring under Mainsail or Headsail
- How to Use Casting Kedges for Ungrounding
- How to Make a Snubber Bridle for an All-Chain Rode
- Th e Five Kings of Marlinspike Seamanship
- A Mariner’s Most Essential Weather Predictor 12 Weather and Water Wisdom
- Using a Weather Pattern Log
- Weather Information Resources for Mariners
- How to Predict Wind Shift s in Low-Pressure Systems
- Meeting a Line Squall
- Lightning Timing and Protective Strategies
- How to Predict Wave Heights for Cruising
- Swell Secrets
- How to Use Terrain Eff ect in Cruise Planning
- Fuel-Fire Prevention Techniques 13 Preventing and Handling Emergencies
- Galley Stove Safety Secrets
- Overboard Recovery and Reality Checks
- Use N.O.W. and Keep Crewmembers Alive and Well
- Handle Flooding Emergencies with M.A.T.E.
- How to Use Your Engine as a Dewatering Pump
- Other Strategies for Staying Afl oat when Damaged
- Signs of Hypothermia and Cold-Water Shock
- Skipper’s Immersion Survival and Treatments Guide
- Useful Tables Appendix I
- Additional Concepts and Formulas Appendix II
- Bibliography
- Index