The practical pilot
Subtitle: coastal navigation by eye, intuition, and common sense
By: Leonard Eyges.
Publisher: International Marine Pub. Co.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Camden, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Coastwise navigation.
First sentence: "You have in all likelihood seen a nautical chart."
Description: From the Introduction, by the Author:
"This book is about coastal navigation (or piloting), the art and half-science of navigating a vessel along a coast, a few yards to a few miles offshore. Coastal navigation is done on a great variety of vessels, from sea kayaks to supertankers, although the techniques of the sea kayaker may be quite different from those of the tanker captain. Somewhere between sea kayak and supertanker is the small cruising boat, sail or power, perhaps 20, 30, or even 40 feet long, making its way on daysailing, weekend, or month-long trips off the shores of Maine, through Chesapeake Bay, near the Florida or California coasts--or wherever. This book seeks to outline practical and tested methods for making the navigation on such trips simple, enjoyable, and efficient."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-241) and index.

"A Brief Guide to the Literature

"This bibliography is meant to provide in one convenient place references to useful publications for the coastal pilot. Most of these publications have been mentioned in greater or less detail in the text. There are two kinds. First are the survivors--"classics" that have been around in many editions for many years and are likely to be around for many more. Second are more transitory books on piloting that appear every year, last a few years, and then disappear. To say this is in no way to disparage them; they are often books of much merit and interest. but it is hard to keep up with which are currently in print, and none emphasizes the kind of piloting techniques that this book endorses; hence none of them really supplements this book. For these reasons the bibliography includes only the enduring publications, the classics."
Table of contents: label: Section I
title: Book Learning, Chart Learning
pagenum: 12; label: 1
title: Charts: a Primer
pagenum: 12; label: 2
title: The U.S. Coast Pilots
pagenum: 18; label: 3
title: Learning from the Light Lists
pagenum: 22; label: 4
title: Other Learning Aids
pagenum: 32; label: Section II
title: Chart Learning and the View on Deck
pagenum: 38; label: 5
title: Landmarks
pagenum: 38; label: 6
title: Navaids
pagenum: 45; label: 7
title: The Shape of the Land
pagenum: 58; label: 8
title: Sailing Among Islands
pagenum: 66; label: Section III
title: Knowing All the Angles
pagenum: 72; label: 9
title: Angles and the Rule of Sixty
pagenum: 74; label: 10
title: Bearings
pagenum: 78; label: 11
title: Measuring Angles on Deck
pagenum: 83; label: 12
title: Angles on the Chart
pagenum: 97; label: 13
title: The Orientation Program
pagenum: 106; label: Section IV
title: Marine Compasses
pagenum: 118; label: 14
title: The Earth's Magnetic Field
pagenum: 120; label: 15
title: Handbearing and Ship's Compasses
pagenum: 126; label: 16
title: Checking a Handbearing Compass
pagenum: 132; label: 17
title: Aiming the Boat
pagenum: 137; label: 18
title: Checking the Ship's Compass
pagenum: 142; label: 19
title: Compensating the Ship's Compass
pagenum: 153; label: Section V
title: Where Is the Boat Now?
pagenum: 162; label: 20
title: Lines and Curves of Position
pagenum: 164; label: 21
title: The Transit Line of Position
pagenum: 170; label: 22
title: Small-Angle Circles of Position
pagenum: 178; label: 23
title: Fixes
pagenum: 188; label: Section VI
title: Getting from Here to There
pagenum: 198; label: 24
title: Can We See It from Here?
pagenum: 200; label: 25
title: Time, Speed, and Distance
pagenum: 210; label: 26
title: Current Affairs
pagenum: 215; label: 27
title: Time and Tide
pagenum: 225; label: 28
title: Avoiding Collision
pagenum: 236; title: A Brief Guide to the Literature
pagenum: 240; title: Index
pagenum: 242