NP100 The Mariner’s Handbook

Description

Admiralty Publication NP100 The Mariner’s Handbook

Designed to be used in conjunction with Admiralty nautical charts and Sailing Directions, The Mariners Handbook is particularly relevant to the safe, effective use and interpretation of UKHO charts and publications.

Much of the content of the handbook is relevant to navigators of small vessels, with the language and presentation style used being primarily aimed at professional navigators more often operating larger merchant or naval vessels.

Includes comprehensive information on charts and publications and their use, promulgation of navigational information, including chart correcting data, the maritime environment including the sea, operations in ice, maritime meteorology, regulation of the maritime environment, and particular information on military and commercial operations at sea including piracy.It also contains the official text of the International regulations for the Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972), a comprehensive description of the IALA Maritime Buoyage System and a glossary of maritime terminology.