Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition
Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition

Author: Charlie Wing

Publisher: Mcgraw-hill

Published: 2008-07-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780071603690

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Know you’ll pass before you take the exam. If you are planning to take paying passengers on your boat or you want to save money on your insurance, you’ll need to pass the U.S. Coast Guard captain’s ratings exams. Get Your Captain’s License is the quickest, easiest, and least expensive way to prepare for these tests. This complete study tool includes: The six-passenger “Six-Pack,” Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation PEARSoft’s new and improved interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database With its essential advice and unlimited opportunities for exam practice, this book is your sure course to passing the tests and securing your license. Please note: CD-ROM is compatible with PC only.

Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition
Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition

Author: Charlie Wing

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-09-24

Total Pages: 841

ISBN-13: 0071603700

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Know you’ll pass before you take the exam. If you are planning to take paying passengers on your boat or you want to save money on your insurance, you’ll need to pass the U.S. Coast Guard captain’s ratings exams. Get Your Captain’s License is the quickest, easiest, and least expensiveway to prepare for these tests. This complete study tool includes: The six-passenger “Six-Pack,” Master and Mate Inland, Masterand Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation PEARSoft’s new and improved interactive CD-ROM with all14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database With its essential advice and unlimited opportunities for exam practice, this bookis your sure course to passing the tests and securing your license. Please note: CD-ROM is compatible with PC only.

Get Your Captain's License
Get Your Captain's License

Author: Charlie Wing

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 1997-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780079136770

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Accompanying CD-ROM includes the entire 6,215-question database used for the four most popular Coast Guard license examinations, with answers and grading of practice tests.

How Boat Things Work
How Boat Things Work

Author: Charlie Wing

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2007-06-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0071511083

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“Anyone who contemplates any onboard do-it-yourself work should have this book at his or her elbow.”--Cruising World “This book reduces a boat to its most rudimentary parts in simple drawings and clear explanations. Fascinating to read, it’s a perfect teaching tool.”--Ocean Navigator Whether you’re a new mariner or a lifetime veteran, How Boat Things Work is a resource you can’t afford to be without. With intricate two-color cutaway drawings of eighty different systems and devices, as well as detailed explanations of how they’re assembled, how they work, and how they can go wrong, this book covers every primary component of your boat's inner workings. This guided tour “under the hood” of your sailboat or powerboat includes: Engines, transmissions, bearings, stuffing boxes, propellers Steering systems, autopilots, windvanes, compasses Rigging, splicing, line handling, block and tackle, sail controls Anchors and windlasses DC and AC electrical systems Pumps, toilets, seacocks, freshwater systems

Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 69th Edition
Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 69th Edition

Author: Chapman

Publisher: Hearst Home & Hearst Home Kids

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 922

ISBN-13: 1950785505

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Chapman is the foundation reference for all boaters and sailors with essential information on boat handing and seamanship skills on coast and inland waters. With three million copies sold, Chapman Piloting & Seamanship is the one comprehensive resource boaters at all levels of experience trust for everything they need to know to set out on the water. It addresses the best traditions of seamanship with cutting-edge practices, gear, and technology. Along with 1500 color photos, charts and drawings, this edition includes: Navigating by day or night in any weather Trailerboating Getting underway or returning to a marina or mooring under power or sail Anchoring and weighing anchor Operating a gas or diesel engine—inboard, outboard, or sterndrive Using radar and communicating by radio Sharing the water with other boats Handling lines and making them fast Reading the weather and keeping your crew safe with the latest advice on safety equipment The 4,200-entry index makes it easy to quickly access any topic, and the glossary and source information directs the reader to vital information on weather, tides, and aids to navigation. Used and recommended by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, the U.S. Power Squadrons, and other boating educators, Chapman is today—and has been for more than a century—the boating book of record.

Get Your Captain's License, 5th
Get Your Captain's License, 5th

Author: Charlie Wing

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0071844716

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Earning a captain’s license just got easier Whether you are an avid boater seeking to improve your seamanship and get a discount on boat insurance or aspire to start a business running a charter, sightseeing, or whale-watching boat, this revised and updated Fifth Edition is the only resource you need to obtain the captain’s license you want, including the six-passenger “Six-Pack,” Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement. Get Your Captain’s License is thorough enough to replace costly classroom instruction with its 350 pages of seamanship and navigation tutorials and more than 1,500 questions and answers from the Coast Guard exams. Plus, the new associated website simulates taking actual exams and provides instant feedback that lets you pinpoint the areas you need to study.

Powerboat Handling Illustrated
Powerboat Handling Illustrated

Author: Robert J. Sweet

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2011-07-29

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0071788492

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From docking to surviving storm waves, everything you need to know before you hit the water Using hundreds of illustrations and photos, Powerboat Handling Illustrated shows you step-by-step how to do tasks such as docking, trimming, wave handling, and close-quarters maneuvering. These maneuvers are adapted to different types of boats under various conditions.

Mexico Boating Guide
Mexico Boating Guide

Author: Patricia Rains

Publisher: Mexico Boating Guide

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780963847058

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This book and its text, charts, illustrations and photos are to be used for planning and reference purposes only. They are specifically not to be used for navigation. The text has been prepared, based upon personal inspections, official publications and other data deemed reliable, with the objective of making the boating visitor's voyage more enjoyable.