Boater's Pocket Reference

Hundreds of pages of boating information on your iPhone,iPod Touch or iPad! The Boater’s Pocket Reference caters to all levels of boating expertise with a wide variety of content including 800 illustrations and photographs and a myriad of charts and graphs. Boater’s Pocket Reference is a popular and useful printed book and the app is even better. Handy, Fact-Filled Boating Guide Boater’s Pocket Reference offers handy, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating. Who needs this book? New boaters: This app provides an extensive introduction to all aspects of boating. Experienced boaters: A great reference and memory jogger. Everyone who wants to make their boating safer and more enjoyable. Features: * Piloting and Navigation—including the use of charts, GPS, radar, and sonar. * Communications—VHF, SSB, satellite. * U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard boating regulations * International, U.S., and Canadian Navigation Rules (Rules of the Road) * Understanding aids to navigation * Understanding weather—air movement, fronts, clouds, weather maps. * Boat types, design, and construction as well as boating terminology * The essentials of good seamanship—the basics of operating a boat. * Marlinespike seamanship—lines and knots—including 50 different knots. * Mechanical—engines and propellers. * Electrical—circuits, DC and AC wiring, batteries, chargers, inverters, lightning. * Boat trailering tips, techniques, maintenance, wiring. * General reference tables—time zones, holidays, weight and volume of liquids, and more. * Extensive unit conversion tables * Boating resources—organizations, phone numbers, web sites, including Coast Guard and Power Squadron. * Glossary of marine terminology. * Over 100 boating-related calculators. No boater can afford to be without this valuable and handy guide. About the Author Thomas McEwen is an avid boater and former mining engineer. Tom is also a member of the Boulder Valley Sail and