Get Your Captain's License: The Complete Study Guide — 4th Edition

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Get Your Captain's License offers the best test-prep resource available for the U.S. Coast Guard captain's exams. This fully updated and greatly expanded new edition covers the exams for the most popular captain's ratings, including the "Six-Pack" charter boat license and the 100-ton Masters license.

This complete study tool includes:

• The six-passenger "Six-Pack," Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement
• 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation
• PEARsoft's new and improved interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

What this Book is About | Using the AutoExam Software | Recommended References

QUALIFYING FOR A LICENSE

Do You Qualify? | Experience Requirements | Completing the Forms | Application Forms

RULES OF THE ROAD

Part A—General | Part B—Steering and Sailing | Part C—Lights and Shapes | Part D—Sound and Light Signals | Rules of the Road Questions and Answers

DECK GENERAL

Ship Handling | Heavy Weather Operations | Docking and Undocking | Mooring and Anchoring | Measuring Depth | Towing Operations | Ship Construction | Stability | Displacement and Load Lines | Marlinspike | Splices | Knots | Block and Tackle | Ship's Business | Pollution Regulations | Regulations (CFRs) | Deck General Questions and Answers

NAVIGATION GENERAL

Weather | Sea Ice | Tides | Tidal Currents | Charts and Publications | Aids to Navigation | Locks and Dams | Compass | Loran | GPS | Radar | Navigation General Questions and Answers

SAFETY

Emergencies | Life Rafts and Floats | Signaling | Fire Fighting | First Aid | Small Engine Operation | Safety Questions and Answers

NAVIGATION PROBLEMS

Latitude, Longitude, Distance and Course | Dead Reckoning | Fixes by Bearings | Running Fixes | Relative Bearings and Distance Off | Current Set and Drift | Current Vectors and Course to Steer | Plotting Sheet to Photocopy | Chart Practice Problems | Navigation Problems Questions and Answers

AUXILIARY SAIL ENDORSEMENT

Auxiliary Sailing Vessels | Sails | Auxiliary Sail Questions and Answers

EXAMINATION ILLUSTRATIONS

Rules of the Road | Deck General | Navigation General | Safety | Auxiliary Sail

APPENDIX: COLREGS

Part A—General | Part B—Steering and Sailing | Part C—Lights and Shapes | Part D—Sound and Light Signals | Part E—Exemptions | Annex I—Positioning and Technical Details of Lights and Shapes | Annex II—Additional Signals for Fishing Vessels Fishing in Close Proximity | Annex III—Technical Details of Sound Signal Appliances | Annex IV—Distress Signals | Annex V—Pilot Rules

INDEX

Minimum system requirements
Windows Vista, XP SP2, or Windows 2003 Server SP1; 400MHz Pentium (1GHz Pentium recommended; 96MB of RAM (246 recommended; CD-ROM or DVD drive; 800 x 600 display, 256 colors (1024 x 768 with 32-bit colors recommended; 30 MB to 500 MB (in rare cases) of free disk space; mouse or similar device.

Get Your Captain's License: The Complete Study Guide — 4th Edition