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What's New - Additions & Editions
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New books, new charts, new
instruments, new software – every day brings something new. We will present
the highlights in this column. Check in with us often, so as not to miss
anything. |
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September 26,
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November 23, 2011 |
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Nav Rules Trainer, Starpath.
Interactive CD with Inland, International and Canadian Rules, all
Coast Guard test questions, citations, explanations. $89.00 T
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Ship
Knowledge, Covering
Ship Design,
Construction, and Operation.
K. Van Dokkum 7th ed., 2011. HC, 9 x 12,
383 pp.
$120.00 T4352
click here
for more information about Ship Knowledge |
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November 14, 2011 |
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2012 Tides and
Currents Now Available $9.95 each |
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2012 Eldridge Now
Available
Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book 2012 Published in Boston every year since
1874, and seen aboard thousands of boats in New England. Small and handy.
$14.00 T16469 |
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June 6, 2011 |
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More and more offshore wind farms are
being planned. They'll bring us pollution-free energy, but they may also
have an impact on our shipping lanes. Offshore Windpower,
just released by Schiffer Books, is a good-looking and readable account of
this phenomenon.
click
here for more information |
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April 15, 2011 |
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Michael Adams, author of Shipboard Bridge
Resource Management, has chronicled a little-known piece of Coast
Guard history - the far-flung cutters that stayed on station in the
fiercest storms to make weather observations and to provide navigation,
communications and search-and rescue services. Ocean Station-
Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977.
click here for
more information |
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March 24, 2011 |
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Celestial navigation buffs - yes, we know
you're out there! - will get some interesting new insights from David
Burch's How to Use Plastic Sextants (with Applications to
Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting)
click here for more
information |
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March 17, 2011 |
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When the new editions of the venerable annual
Waterway Guides come out, can spring be far behind?
We've now received the 2011 Northern, Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic ICW,
Southern, and Bahamas volumes, everything but the Great
Lakes, and they're coming soon. They are ready for cruisers to
plan their 2011 season.
click
here for Destinations |
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March 12, 2011 |
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Every time we look through the Casualties
section in the back of Professional Mariner magazine we're reminded
that there's more to running a ship than navigation and ship-handling --
good seamanship also involves good management. We have two new books on
the subject. Mike Adams' Shipboard Bridge Resource Management,
originally published in 2006 has been brought back in an updated second
printing. For smaller ships we've just received from International
Marine Publishing (McGraw-Hill) Dan Parrott's Bridge Resource
Management for Small Ships.
click here for
Shipboard Bridge Resouce Management
click here for
Bridge Resource Management for Small
Ships |
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March 8, 2011 |
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If you want to try your hand at building
boat models from scratch, here's a book that will give you a good start:
Fundamentals of Model Boat Building by John Into and Nancy
Price, just released by Schiffer Publishing. It's thorough, clear, and
well illustrated.
click here for more information
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February 24, 2011 |
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DMA (NIMA) charts of foreign waters
are available again. NIMA and NOAA have license OceanGrafix to print the
charts for use by the general maritime public, and we are pleased to offer
them to our customers.
Click here for more information |
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February 14, 2011 |
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Azimuth drives have changed the way tugboats
are used and how they are operated, and they require a whole new set of
skills. Captain Jeff Slesinger’s “ASD Tugs: Thrust and Azimuth,
Learning to drive a Z-drive” will help tug masters and mates
develop those skills.
click here for
more information |
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It’s back! For many years the old DMA (or
NIMA, or NGA) Chart Correction Template has been
unavailable, but now Weems and Plath has brought out theirs, using the
familiar tried and true NIMA pattern. (Navigator, Plotting Instruments).
click here for more
information |
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Our NoticesPlus CD subscription
service has some exciting new features – Light Lists corrected
every month, BA (British Admiralty) Notices to Mariners, and an economical
monthly option. click here for more
information |
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Ready or not, ECDIS is coming! Ships’ masters
and their bridge teams will need to learn new skills and form new habits.
A short but authoritative paper by the Nautical Institute, From Paper
Charts to ECDIS, A Practical Voyage Plan gives the shipping
industry guidance to help through the transition.
click here for more
information |
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Our “Oil and Water” friends will be
interested to learn that we have received the fifth edition of Tanker
Operations, A Handbook for the Person-In-Charge (PIC). This is the first
new edition since 2001, and in this fast-changing field that’s a long
time.
click here for more information |
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November 30, 2010 |
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Tugboat enthusiasts will welcome the news
that Virginia Thorndike's popular On Tugboats is now back in print.
For details, click here. |
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You've found a beautiful but beat-up old
sextant in a garage sale, and you'd like to bring it back into working
condition -- so where do you begin? Your first step is to get your
copy of The Nautical Sextant, by W.J. Morris. The publishers, Paradise Cay
and Celestair, the celestial navigation experts, call this book "the most
in-depth exposition on marine sextants ever written." It is directed at
collectors, curators, instrument dealers, and restorers.
For details, click here. |
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September 14,
2010 |
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Planning and navigating the route from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico has just gotten easier. "Great Loop"
cruisers will welcome the "Managing the Waterways" chart guide from
Semi-Local, Chicago, IL to Paducah, KY. It's a
combination chart atlas and cruising guide that's just loaded with
information. For ordering details, see
Western Rivers. You'll aslso find there information about
the Barway Pilot Guides Lower Mississippi River and
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. |
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August 13, 2010 |
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"Coasties" and their
families and friends will enjoy - and get alot of insights from - a new
arrival, Rescue Warriors - The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten
Heroes. David Helvarg has written a vivid panorama of the
service as it is today, with emphasis on individual personalities and
post-911 events and developments.
For more information, click here. |
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August 4, 2010 |
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Linda Greenlaw strikes
again! After ten years of inshore lobstering, Linda returns to offshore
swordfishing. Her new book is called Seaworthy, A Swordboat Captain
Returns to the Sea.
For details, click here. |
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If you're involved in the important job of
bunkering, you'll be interested in the four new books books we've brought
in from Petrospot, the English publishing and training
organization specializing in the maritime, energy, and transportation
industries. The latest one is An Introduction to Bunkering
Operations, by Nigel Draffin.
For details, click here, and scroll down to
the Bunkering section. |
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February 5, 2010 |
If you take your laptop on board to use in PC
Navigation, you will welcome the brand new 2010 Edition of Raster &
Vector Charts for United States Waters, a two-DVD set from
Semi-Local.
Click here for more information. |
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January 13, 2010 |
If you are ready to plan next summer's cruise
to the St. Lawrence area, we have good news. The St. Lawrence River
and Quebec Waterways Cruising Guide is back in a new 2009 edition,
better than ever.
See Destinations, From the Hudson River to the St.
Lawrence |
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January 7, 2010 |
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We have an unusual addition to our
Women and the Sea shelf.
A career woman frustrated with the way
her life is going, enters the Atlantic Rowing Race, the first woman to do
so, and has life transformed by the experience. Rowing the Atlantic,
by Roz Savage.
For details, click here. |
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Green-minded sailors who care for the
environment and want to reduce their carbon footprint can find much to
think about in a recent arrival, Sustainable Sailing, by Dieter
Loibner. We can put it on our "uncategorizable" shelf , and
you can get more information by clicking
here. |
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December 14, 2009 |
New Jersey fisherman will be glad to learn
that the old NOS bathymetric charts, which for a long time
were out of print, have no been brought back by Oceangrafix under license
from NOS. These charts show selected portions of the ocean floor in great
detail with closely-spaced depth curves to give the fisherman a good feel
for underwater topography. At this point, we will be stocking Block
Canyon, Wilmington Canyon and Hudson Canyon, and we hope to add
more in the future.
To order, see Destinations - The Jersey Shore. |
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December 5, 2009 |
Piloting the Western Rivers has just gotten
easier. We have received two new Barway Pilots Guides, by
towboat pilot Jimmy Leggett. There is one for the Lower Mississippi
and one for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
For details, see Destinations -Western
Rivers |
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November 11, 2009 |
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Chesapeake Bay mariners take note: we
have received the 2009 edition of the popular Chesapeake and
Delaware Bay ChartKit, and the 2010 edition of Chesapeake Bay
Magazine's Guide to Cruising the Chesapeake Bay. |
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October 6, 2009 |
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We have three new arrivals for our Delaware
River mariners. Along the Schuylkill
River, Delaware River Port Authority and Delaware Lighthouses and Range
Lights are just a few of the local maritime history books that we offer.
Click here for
more information
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September 10,
2009 |
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Last month we inaugurated a new section
of this website, The Watch Below,
dedicated to leisure time reading. Today we are adding a new
sub-section to The Watch Below, Women and
the Sea. Check it out by clicking here. |
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September 9,
2009 |
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Yes, the new Chapman's is here. For nearly a
century Chapman's Piloting & Seamanship has been a leading
reference for both power and sail boaters, and now the 66th edition,
published this month, improves and updates it.
More... |
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September 1,
2009 |
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Really gung-ho kayakers will welcome a
new offering : Paddling Alaska.
See the Gulf of Alaska section of Destinations. You'll also see
there a fascinating history, Alaskan Maritime and a few
updates. |
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August
31, 2009 |
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Antique collectors will have a feast looking
over W.D. Ball's Nautical Antiques, with it's hundreds of illustrations
and descriptions of old-time sailor's tools and keepsakes.
For more, see Uncategorizable. |
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For our friends who work on or about
tugs, there’s a new edition of M.J. Gaston’s The Tug Book.
For more information, click here. |
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August 19, 2009 |
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Readers who have enjoyed Robb White’s
many magazine pieces over the years will be pleased to learn that his
works have been gathered together into the book Flotsam and Jetsam.
For more information, see The Watch
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If you are planning a cruise in the
Bahamas, consider the new chart atlases published by Caribbean
Yachting Charts (Nautical Publications USA). There are three:
Northwest Bahamas, Central Bahamas, and Southeast Bahamas.
For details, see
Destinations – Bahamas.
CYC now also has four chart atlases for
the Lesser Antilles: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Leeward
Islands, and Windward Islands.
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Bahamas Guide 2010 and the
Turks and Caicos Islands
is the indispensable cruising guide
for boaters exploring the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
For more information, see
The Bahamas |
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May 2009
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From the same publisher who brought
us Ship Knowledge, with its marvelous graphics, we are now
stocking two more professional texts,
Ship Stability, and The Colregs Guide. For more, see The
Professional Library. |
March 2009
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Navigators who use a laptop PC as a
charting aid know that they can download charts from the internet
free. If they use a large number of charts, however, that can be
an arduous task. They will be glad to learn that we have received
from Semi-Local Publications their updated DVD Electronic Charts
2009. What’s more, we have received from Rose Point Navigation
their acclaimed Coastal Explorer 2009 charting
software. For details, see Navigator. |
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Engineroom hands will be
interested in two CDs from Starpath School of Navigation.
“CD Starpath Engineering Examiner” simulates the REC
process by feeding the license candidate with questions from the
USCG Engineering exam data base, while allowing the student to
filter and control the type of question. “CD Starpath
Engineering Library” gathers together over fifty books and
self-study courses in an easily searchable format. See
Professional Library, Engine Room. |
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January 2009
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Professional
masters and mates will welcome the new edition of Robert Meurn's "Watchstanding
Guide for the Merchant Officer" .
Click here for more information |
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For our
readers with an interest in New York Harbor or in the art and trade of
the harbor pilot we now have Francis J. Duffy's "Always on
Station - The Story of the Sandy Hook Ship Pilots". This
informal account tells the story of the Pilots from 1694 to the
present.
To
learn more, click on Destinations - New York to Cape Cod |
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Our Western
Rivers cruisers will be pleased to learn that Fred Myers' "Cumberland
River Cruising Guide" is now available on disk. It has been made
part of "CD Cruising the Cumberland River."
For details, click on Destinations - Western Rivers |
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Many of you
who are interested in tugboats or the Chesapeake Bay enjoyed reading
Emily Lambert's "Tugging on a Heartstring." You'll be glad to hear
we have received its continuation, "Tugging on a Heartstring - The
Sequel."
For details see Professional - Tug & Barge - Tugboat Yarns |
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October 2008.
We have received four new editions of cruising guides for the Chesapeake and
the ICW to Florida. We are beginning to get our annuals, such as Tide and
Tidal Current Tables and the Nautical Almanac. |
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Shiphandling With Tugs”
second edition. Cornell Maritime Press has released a new edition of the
classic text originally written by Gorge H. Reid. This update was developed
and rewritten by Captain Jeff Slesinger, a Pacific Northwest tug skipper
with experience in teaching and the creation of simulators. It includes
information on escort work, and goes deeply into the changes brought about
by the new tractor tugs.
Click here for more information |
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Bahamas Overview Chart.
Monty and Sara Lewis, of Lewis Offshore, the creators of Explorer Chartbooks,
have made the Bahamas their own special territory. Their latest offering is
an overall chart of the Bahamas, from the Florida East Coast to the Turks
and Caicos. The chart is good looking, suitable for framing, and can serve
both as a planner and a memento.
Click here for more information |
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Barway
Pilots Guides. Pilothouse has become a dealer for Barway and
their set of annotated chart books for the inland waters of the Gulf of
Mexico. Over the past few years Barway has become the standard by which
towboat pilots judge all other charts, and we are pleased to be able to
offer them to our customers.
Click here for more information |
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