Contents
- Part I
- Fundamentals, includes an overview of the types and phases of marine navigation and the organizations which support and regulate it. It includes chapters relating to the structure, use and limitations of nautical charts; chart datums and their importance; and other material of a basic nature.
- Part II
- Piloting, emphasizes the practical aspects of navigating a vessel in restricted waters.
- Part III
- Electronic Navigation, covers the primary means of positioning of the modern navigator. Chapters deal with each of the several electronic methods of navigation, organized by type.
- Part IV
- Celestial Navigation, contains techniques, examples and problems and a chapter on sight reduction.
- Part V
- Navigational Mathematics, includes chapters relating to such topics as basic navigational mathematics and computer use in the solution of navigation problems.
- Part VI
- Navigational Safety, discusses aspects of the new distress and safety communications systems now in place or being implemented in the next several years, as well as navigation regulations, emergency navigation procedures, and distress communications.
- Part VII
- Oceanography, contains chapters on practical oceanography of use to the mariner.
- Part VII
- Marine Meteorology, incorporates weather routing and forecasting methods as well as color plates of the Beaufort Sea States.
Bowditch's navigator was made so that everyone could read and understand it. He did this because he taught the members of his crew on board his ship how to navigate.
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