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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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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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February 2, 2010 |
Operators of commercial vessels need to keep
up with the changing regulatory environment. The Code of Federal
Regulations is published annualy, and we have received the new
2009 edition of CFR33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.
For more details, see Code of Federal Regulations. |
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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 30, 2009 |
The annual publications for the year 2010 are
coming in. First we have the Nautical Almanac 2010, both the
GPO version and the Commercial Edition.
For details, see The Navigator
We have also received the 2010 Tide and
Current Tables. They will be part of your November standing order,
if they are on your Master List. We will be updating our various
destination pages during the next few weeks.
| NOS 2010 Tide Tables East
Coast of North and South Amercia |
$13.95 T15312 |
| NOS 2010 Tide Tables West
Coast of North and South America |
$13.95 T15314 |
| NOS 2010 Current Tables
Atlantic Coast of Nortth America |
$13.95 T15316 |
| NOS Current Tables
Pacific Coast of North America |
$13.95 T15317 |
| Eldridge's 2010 Tide and
Pilot Book (East Coast) |
$14.00 T16469 |
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Unfortunately we did not receive the
2010 Reeds Almanacs. We must report that they will not be
published this year. |
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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
Below. |
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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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The 2009 Waterway Guides are
here! For details on Waterway Guide Great Lakes see
Destinations, Great Lakes. For the Waterway Guide Northern, see
Destinations New York to Nantucket
or Down East.
Note - the Northern
no longer covers the Delaware River and Bay, which are now
included in Waterway Guide Chesapeake Bay.
See Destinations Delaware Bay and River.
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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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Waterway Guides
These popular annuals from Dozier have been reconfigured.
For detail,
click on Destinations.
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| The Mid-Atlantic edition has been split into two volumes,
“Chesapeake 2009” and “Atlantic ICW 2009,” both available now. |
The Southern Edition has been
split into “Southern 2009” covering Florida, the Keys, and the Gulf
Coast, available now, and “Bahamas 2009” available next year. |
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Tide and Current Tables.
We have received from NOS the following:
| Tidal Current Tables 2009 --
Atlantic Coast of North America |
Tide Tables 2009 – East Coast of
North and South America |
Tidal Current Tables 2009 –
Pacific Coast of North America and Asia |
Tide Tables 2009 – West Coast of
North America and South America, including the Hawaiian Islands and the
Alaskan Supplement |
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If you are a subscriber to
Pilothouse SOS and have any of these books on your Master List they will be
sent to you automatically as part of your November shipment.
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“Get Onboard With Electronic
Charting.” Nautical charts have gone digital, and most navigators
can use a guide to the fast-moving developments in this field. Mark and
Diana Doyle, of Semi-Local Publications, have produced a clear and
comprehensive manual, “intended as a practical guide to the background,
advantages, resources, weaknesses, and choices in e-charting today.” It is
relevant to both recreational boaters and commercial captains.
Click here for more information |
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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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