15 results for "How to Read a Nautical Chart" between $5.00 and $25.00

Pages: 16, Edition: 1, Pamphlet, International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

A complete guide to the symbols, abbreviations and data found on nautical charts. Includes the complete text of Chart No. 1 plus much-expanded explanations of what all those symbols mean in real-life navigation situations.

Nautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them. But without a key to the symbology, a chart can be bewildering. Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors, helps you make sense complex system of signs, symbols, and graphic elements with this compact, waterproof, and nearly indestructible guide.

Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the shorthand notations used on nautical charts... Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors, helps make sense of all the graphic elements with this compact, waterproof, and nearly indestructible guide.

A quick reference, on-board guide to the symbols and notations used on U.S. nautical charts. The key to the complex system of signs, symbols and graphic elements of the nautical chart. Compact, waterproof and nearly indestructible.

Fundamental chartmaking concepts in plain language. The limits of accuracy of modern charts (paper and electronic). Dozens of full-scale illustrations from actual charts. Expanded versions of U.S., British, and international chart symbology descriptions contained in NOAA's Chart NO. 1, the British Admiralty's Chart 5011, and the IHO's INT-1. And much more essential information designed to improve vital chart-reading skills.