This edition of The American Practical Navigator, Bowditch, is offered by Celestaire and Paradise Cay Publications. This is the most recent update of Bowditch, the definitive work on navigation. Nathanial Bowditch first published this encyclopedic work in 1802. During the last two centuries over 75 editions, almost 1,000,000 copies, of Bowditch have been published by the US Government. It has lived because it has combined the best technologies of each generation of navigator. This edition includes the latest advances in electronic navigation and digital charting technology. It also covers nonelectronic navigation such as celestial, plotting and dead reckoning. Bowditch contains numerous tables which have been valued for years by practicing navigators. Bowditch is carried on the bridge of every U.S. Navy ship and should be the mainstay of any serious navigator's library. Paradise Cay and Celestaire's present this commercial edition of Bowditch which is a complete copy of the latest Government edition.
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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 should own a copy.But (a) it's enormous in both physical volume and weight and (b) it does get updated. What to do? ... A search on "nga bowditch" will provide you with the current pdf version, chapter by chapter on the web.
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Weighing in at a hefty five pounds plus and almost 1000 pages long, this book is as important to your boat as its keel, and almost as dense. First published by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1802 and carried on board every U.S. Navy vessel, THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR ("BOWDITCH") is the quintessential seafarer's reference.
Exhaustively encyclopedic in scope, BOWDITCH is the sailor's mentor on just about any nautical subject, and it is also simply fascinating to read. Although online editions of BOWDITCH are constantly updated, a hardcover edition never crashes and has to be rebooted, and is never subject to the vagaries of battery failure. Despite its heftiness, every confirmed boat handler should have a copy of THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR.
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Great classic book! Even if you hardly read it this can be a good book for your personal nautical library. However, if you just want to get some technical knowledge from the book free on-line version in pdf format is available at http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/
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less dangerous semicircle, celestial equator system, water lunitidal interval, chart sounding datum, tabulated declination, control tide station, primary great circle, fictitious equator, light phase characteristics, sextant altitude correction, transverse equator, high water interval, low water interval, angular distance west, endless tangent screw, heeling magnet, high water inequality, upper meridian passage, darker limit, conic chart, degaussing compensation, horizontal parallax correction, relieving watch officer, tropic higher high water, geodetic equator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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less dangerous semicircle, celestial equator system, water lunitidal interval, chart sounding datum, tabulated declination, control tide station, primary great circle, fictitious equator, light phase characteristics, sextant altitude correction, transverse equator, high water interval, low water interval, angular distance west, endless tangent screw, heeling magnet, high water inequality, upper meridian passage, darker limit, conic chart, degaussing compensation, horizontal parallax correction, relieving watch officer, tropic higher high water, geodetic equator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Air Almanac, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Gulf Stream, Natural Trigonometric Functions, Common Logarithms of Trigonometric Functions, New York, North Pacific, National Ice Center, National Ocean Service, Ursa Major, Department of Defense, Light List, Naval Observatory, South Equatorial Current, World Geodetic System, Logarithms of Numbers, San Francisco, South America, Puget Sound, International Ice Patrol, Pacific Ocean, Equatorial Countercurrent, Global Positioning System New!
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