The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation

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Paradise Cay Publications, 2002 - 879 pages
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 commercial edition of Bowditch is a complete copy of the latest Government edition.
 

Contents

PART 2PILOTING
62
SHORT RANGE AIDS TO NAVIGATION
63
COMPASSES
81
DEAD RECKONING
99
PILOTING
105
TIDES AND TIDAL CURRENTS
129
PART 3 ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION
149
PART 4 CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
215
NAVIGATION TABLES EXPLANATION OF NAVIGATION TABLES
556
LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS
565
NATURAL TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
575
COMMON LOGARITHMS OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
598
TRAVERSE TABLES
621
CARTOGRAPHIC TABLES TABLE 5 NATURAL AND NUMERICAL CHART SCALES
666
MERIDIONAL PARTS
667
LENGTH OF A DEGREE OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
672

PART 5 NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS
315
PART 7 OCEANOGRAPHY
332
PART 6 NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY
361
THE OCEANS
425
OCEAN CURRENTS
433
WAVES BREAKERS AND SURF
441
ICE NAVIGATION
453
PART 8MARINE METEOROLOGY
479
WEATHER ELEMENTS
481
TROPICAL CYCLONES
503
WEATHER OBSERVATIONS
519
WEATHER ROUTING
545
PILOTING TABLES TABLE 8 CONVERSION TABLE FOR METERS FEET AND FATHOMS
673
CONVERSION TABLE FOR NAUTICAL AND STATUTE MILES
674
SPEED TABLE FOR MEASURED MILE
675
SPEED TIME AND DISTANCE
676
DISTANCE OF THE HORIZON
679
GEOGRAPHIC RANGE
680
DIP OF THE SEA SHORT OF THE HORIZON
682
DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN SEA HORIZON AND TOP OF OBJECT BEYOND SEA HORIZON
683
DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN WATERLINE AT OBJECT AND TOP OF OBJECT
685
DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN WATERLINE AT OBJECT AND SEA HORIZON BEYOND OBJECT
687
DISTANCE OF AN OBJECT BY TWO BEARINGS
688
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