Tide Tables 2010 - Atlantic Coast of North America
Tidal Current Tables 2010: Atlantic Coast of North America - 268 pages of updated tidal tables for the Atlantic Coast of North America.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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Tide Tables 2010 - East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland
Tidal Current Tables 2010: East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland with 434 pages of updated tidal tables.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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Tide Tables 2010 - West Coast of North & South America including the Hawaiian Islands
Tidal Current Tables 2010: West Coast of North & South America including the Hawaiian Islands with updated tidal tables.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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Tide Tables 2010 - Pacific Coast of North America and Asia
Tidal Current Tables 2010 Pacific Coast of North America and Asia - 270 pages of 2010 updated Tide & Current Tables.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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Tide Tables 2010 - Europe and West Coast of Africa including the Mediterranean Sea
Tidal Current Tables 2010: Europe and West Coast of Africa including the Mediterranean Sea with updated tidal tables.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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Ships Directly from the publisher.
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Tide Tables 2010 - Central & Western Pacific Ocean & Indian Ocean
Tidal Current Tables 2010: Central & Western Pacific Ocean & Indian Ocean - 476 pages of updated tidal tables.
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Includes High and Low water predictions.
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GPS for Mariners
A must for any boater that wants to know what GPS does and how to operate it. The difference between maps on land and charts on the water. Navigation techniques with course, speed, distance, bearings and more. By Robert J Sweet.
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The Weekend Navigator
An easy reference for GPS, Navigation, Navigation Aids, Course, Speed, Distance, Electronic Navigation and more.
By Bob Sweet.
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How to Read a Nautical Chart
A quick and easy way to use your charts for navigating your course. Aids to Navigation, Latitude and Longitude, water depth, hazards to navigation and more.
By Nigel Calder.
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The-One-Minute Guide to Nautical Rules of the Road
What every boater needs to know about steering and sailing rules, Lights and Shapes, Sound and Light Signals, my responsibilities and more.
By Charlie Wing.
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Introduction to Paddling
A great way to know about necessary equipment, the equipment you’ll need especially for you, learning about Kayaks, Canoes, clothing and accessories, real life paddling, safety and taking care of your stuff. Fun for everyone.
By The American Canoe Association.
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WaterSmart from the Start - Instructor Manual
$5.00 $0.00
01-39-108
Books are free and shipping is free.
WaterSmart from the start instructor manual with accompanying CD.
The instructor manual and cd contains the instructor and student manual, a pre-test and a post-test with answers. The instructor manual is designed so anyone can be the facilitator, no knowledge of boating is necessary.
One instructor manual can easily support a class size of 10-20 students
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USPS Guide - Boat Insurance
Do you really know what marine losses are covered by your insurance policy? Don't be blind-sided by exceptions that come to your attention only after you suffer a loss. Know what you're buying. Here is what you need to know when you shop for boat insurance.
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USPS Guide - Compass Adjusting
Can you trust your compass? Will it guide you home safely? Maybe, if it's properly adjusted. If not, it may give you a false sense of security and actually lead you into danger. Don't take chances. Here are the instructions for accurately adjusting your compass.
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USPS Guide - GMDSS and Marine Radio
The new Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is revolutionizing emergency communications and international search and rescue at sea. In recognition of this leap forward, all new marine radios are now equipped with digital selective calling (DSC). The Boatowner's Guide to GMDSS and Marine Radio explains clearly and concisely how this revolutionary maritime 911 equipment works and describes the enormous advantages of digital VHF radio for ordinary communications with fellow boaters. The book comes with an interactive CD-ROM that shows you how to send emergency messages on a Class-D DSC equipped VHF radio, how to communicate with ships you want to avoid or whose assistance you need, how to call specific boats using digital selective calling, and how to set your digital receiver to "ring" so you will be alerted to incoming calls.
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USPS Guide - Introduction to Sailing
Ever wonder how a sailboat moves into the wind? Why some sailboats are faster than others? The basics of sailboat handling and performance are here in easy-to-understand language that will pique your curiosity and make you eager to set sail soon.
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USPS Guide - Knots, Bends and Hitches
Published by International Marine/McGraw-Hill and richly illustrated with 200 fine drawings, this handy little how-to has something for every mariner. The essentials of the boater’s repertoire are here—the bowline, the sheet bend, the clove hitch, etc.—but so are such lesser-known gems as the hawser bend, the cow hitch, and many more.
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USPS Guide - Knot Tying: The Basic Knot CD
In cooperation with Beutner Multimedia, USPS now has two CDs available that effectively demonstrate marlinespike techniques: The Basic Knots and Advanced Knotting. The Basic Knots CD is packaged with two different color pieces of light nylon line that help show when a knot (like the square knot) is correctly tied. Learn to tie 21 basic knots with this easy-to-use CD-ROM interactive reference. High quality video shows each and every step clearly. Knots demonstrated include the Square Knot or Reef Knot, Figure Eight, Bowline, Round Turn, Half Hitch and more. The demonstrations are well done and will be a terrific addition to your marlinespike reference library.
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USPS Guide - Marine Amateur Radio
For anyone interested in using amateur radio on-board their boat this guide explains how to study for and obtain a license, how to select equipment and install it on board your boat, how to operate your radio for voice or Morse code communications, how to link up with onshore signal repeaters to extend your range and make personal phone calls, how to find and use ham marine radio nets to make position reports or request assistance, and even how to send and receive e-mail using ham radio. Ham radio offers many advantages to the recreational boater, and this well illustrated guide succinctly explains how to make the most of those advantages. The Marine Amateur Radio Guide is the first USPS book to be published by a commercial publisher and to be offered in commercial book stores world-wide.
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USPS Guide - Navigational Astronomy
Every mariner who ever put to sea has marveled at the millions of tiny lights in the night sky. Can they guide your passage? See what early sailors saw, share their wonders, dream their dreams, all with the help of this fun-packed, non-technical guide to stars, planets, and major constellations of the Northern Hemisphere.
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USPS Guide - Plotting and Labeling Standards
How do you move your boat from here to there? Via the safest route? In the least time? With accurate, consistent, and rock-solid knowledge of your position? And, how can you reconstruct and repeat your passage, or tell the oncoming watch the course to steer, speed to make, and bearings to take? Plotting and labeling your course using standard symbols, labels, and abbreviations is the way to go. In easy-to-understand form, here they are and how to use them.
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USPS Guide - Predicted Log
How does your boat handle and perform? Nobody knows better than you do, if you know how fast it travels at various engine/propeller speeds under different conditions. Predicted log contests pit your knowledge and skippering skills against the clock. How closely can you pre-determine the time it will take to travel each leg of a course? Competing against yourself and comparing your skills to those of other boaters, this fun competition hones your boat-handling skills.
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USPS Guide - Sight Reduction Methods
Celestial navigation using the sun, moon, stars, and planets to plot your position and course is still a vital skill for every ocean-going yachtsman, even in this day of GPS navigation. Here is a guide to five important methods for converting your observations into the meaningful data that tells you exactly where you are.
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USPS Guide - USPS Glossary
You're reading an interesting book about boating and come across a new word or phrase. Where do you find the correct definition? This handy reference provides the definitions of over 1300 nautical words and phrases used by boaters, including those found in USPS courses and publications. It's easy to read and worth keeping handy.
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USPS Guide - Water Sports
Boating is fun, but there’s a lot more you can do on the water! Like skiing and windsurfing, to name a few. But, even these have safety rules, special equipment, procedures, and hand signals. Some seem so basic that it’s hard to find them in writing, but it’s important to know them to enjoy these sports safely. Here they are, in a booklet ready for use by long-time enthusiasts and beginners alike!
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Rack - Discontinued Items
What’s New
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