books about: navigation     books:     Navigation      How to Read a Nautical Chart : A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical ... Nigel Calder International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2002 "What does 'rky' mean? Oops!" Since the current U.S. Administration saw fit to cease publication of CHART NO. 1, the government's own guide to reading maritime maps, back in 2000 (maybe they figured Dubai might pick up the slack around our harbors), HOW TO READ A NAUTICAL CHART is an absolutely ...             Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 65th Edition (Chapman Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling) Elbert S. Maloney Hearst, 2006 Must have! This book Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 65th Edition (Chapman Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling) was recommended to us when we bought our first boat some 14 years ago, and has become a bible for boating to us. We've given it ever since to good friends in ...             The King James Bible (with book and chapter navigation) Diana Mecum DianaDoesIt.com, 2008 Fantastic Navigation Feature! This was one of the easiest books to navigate through that I have ever seen because it emulates the hardcopy. In fact, it's better because I don't have to keep paging and paging to get to where I want to read. Instead, each chapter or individual book is just a click ...             World Cruising Routes Jimmy Cornell International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008 World Cruising Routes When planning a circumnavigation one has three choices: 1) Do not plan and accept the extreme dangers of circumnavigation; 2) take a year or more and plan using all available nautical publications, charts, electronic navigation systems; and 3) read and use the ...             Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 A lifesaver As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, ...             Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham Houghton Mifflin, 2003 A review for parents and gift-giving adults (some spoilers here) Another fine Newbery-winning historical novel. This one is actually a fictionalized biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, innovative navigator and author of The American Practical Navigator, apparently still a standard book on navy vessels. Latham's fast-paced book takes ...             Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Dava Sobel Walker & Company, 2007 Fascinating subject in the hands of Sobel One of the most pressing issues for early sailors was the problem of longitude. Because it was impossible to determine longitude, many ships and sailors died. Also, captains used the same routes as pirates or enemies of the state, which made it easy to lie in wait for ...             The Annapolis Book of Seamanship: Third Edition, Completely Revised, Expanded and Updated John Rousmaniere, Mark Smith Simon & Schuster, 1999 One Hand For Yourself, One Hand For The Ship THE ANNAPOLIS BOOK OF SEAMANSHIP by John Rousmaniere is the ur-text on sailing used by virtually every sailing school as its primary educational source. Now in its third edition, this eminently readable and well illustrated book is encyclopedic in its scope, crammed ...             The Douay-Rheims Bible (with book and chapter navigation) Diana L. Mecum DianaDoesIt.com, 2008 Excellent Kindle Formatting! I was very happy to see this in the Kindle store. This is the Gutenberg Project's Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, formatted VERY nicely for the Kindle!!! I've been using the version from [...] that is "formatted for Kindle" but isn't really. As another reviewer said, ...             Navigation Rules U. S. Coast Guard Paradise Cay Publications, 2001 Nav Rules of the Road I was looking for the latest copy of the Rules of the Road and I found them; exactly what I wanted. This is a must-have for Navigators, Naval deck watchstanders and 3rd Mates.             Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience James Kalbach O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Your users will thank you for reading this... The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links ...             Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time Dava Sobel Walker & Company, 2005 A Window Into a Fascinating Episode Prior to 1773 navigation and mapping were hampered by the difficulty of determining longitude on open sea. Determining latitude, the angular distance north or south of the equator, was easy; it only required being able to measure the angle of a star above the horizon. ...             Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors Nigel Calder International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2001 Gotta Get It! My husband and I currently own a CS30 that we race and cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. We have been seriously considering moving up to a 37-40 ft cruiser. We bought this book (among several others) to prepare for cruising. It is fantastic. He covers every topic ...             Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear John Vigor International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2001 Buy This Book Even if you do not plan to sail shorthanded thousands of miles offshore it's a very good idea to understand in detail what makes your boat seaworthy in difficult circumstances and to make it so. This book is a very thorough and very readable treatment of the subject of ...             Basic Keelboat (U.S. Sailing Certification) (U.S. Sailing Certification) Monk Henry U.S. Sailing Association, 2003 Used by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club This was a great book to learn from. It made the whole learning to sail process easy.          products you might be interested in search for books abbreviations, architecture, certification, douay-rheims, information, large-scale      geepe.com    web randomly chosen VHS: Deadman's Curve