Navigation Rules: incl. NTM 24/13: International-Inland Author: U.S. Coast Guard | Language: English | ISBN:
B00422LH0O | Format: EPUB
Navigation Rules: incl. NTM 24/13: International-Inland Description
Includes Notice to Mariners (NTM) 22/14.
This Navigation Rules book contains a complete copy of the Inland and International Navigation Rules as presented by the United States Coast Guard. In addition, all Notice to Mariners updates to date are incorporated within the text. This edition already includes the revisions added to the online Coast Guard version October 19, 2009.
- File Size: 3306 KB
- Print Length: 232 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0939837498
- Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications, Inc. (November 30, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00422LH0O
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
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The official navigation rules are something that every boater should own. If your vessel is large enough or operating in international waters, you are legally required to have it aboard and understand its contents. Regardless of whether you have to have it aboard, if you go out on the water you have to understand what the rules are and what your obligations are to avoid collisions.
Think you don't need it? Collisions are the most serious boating accident, and virtually every collision is later determined to be avoidable by later investigation, had the operators been closely following the Nav Rules.
Here's the problem, though, if you rely on the Official Navigation Rules as your only reference: this edition of the rules is technical, and illustrated, but is often incomprehensible. The diagrams are schematic by necessity, but they are not useful if you're trying to decide what to do out in the real world. New boaters will be easily confused by the situations, since there's no perspective on what is a typical or atypical scenario. Experienced boaters will be perplexed by the eccentricities of the wording. It is not a tutorial on the rules, and as a reference is decipherable basically if you already know the rules.
So what are you to do, if you have to know the Navigation Rules? You have to own this book. And then you have to learn the rules. There are numerous other sources for the knowledge. You should have a basic seamanship reference, such as Chapman's or the Annapolis Seamanship book. You should probably also take a boating safety class at your local US Coast Guard Auxiliary or US Power Squadron, both of which cover the navigation rules.
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