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Steering rules, light arcs, day shapes, sound signals, buoys, TVMDC, 60D = ST, tides and the current triangle. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the rules, angles and numbers you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 62 topics.
You're looking at an exam question: a boat coming in from sea, a channel ahead, and you have to say which side the red nun goes on. You've run channels for years, and now you're second-guessing it.
The manual covers it in paragraphs: lateral marks, the conventional direction of buoyage, even numbers, odd numbers, shapes, light colors. Six rules packed into prose, and nothing to look at.
In the book, Red Right Returning is one drawing: a boat heading in from sea, red nuns and triangles to starboard, green cans and squares to port, the numbers climbing as you go.
The light arcs, every day shape, TVMDC, 60D = ST and the current triangle get the same treatment: each one on its own page.
You see it, you understand it, and you answer the question without flipping back to the manual.
The exam and its vocabulary, steering and sailing rules, lights and day shapes, sound signals, buoys, chart plotting and the compass, tides and currents, and a final exam review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's the TVMDC problem on the exam. True course 090°, variation 10° West, deviation 2° East, and you need the compass course before you can move on.
You open the TVMDC page and see one line drawn left to right: T 090° → V 10°W → M 100° → D 2°E → C 098°, with the add-or-subtract rule right underneath.
It works the same way for the light arcs, Red Right Returning, every day shape, 60D = ST and the current triangle: each one on its own page.
Captain's License Illustrated is 8 parts and 62 topics, all drawn, ending with a review of the Inland vs International differences and the most frequent mistakes.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
OUPV or Master, the exam modules, where Inland and International rules apply, and the Rule 3 definitions people mix up.
Who gives way and who stands on, in every encounter: lookout, safe speed, the steady bearing, narrow channels, traffic schemes, overtaking, head-on, crossing, the pecking order and restricted visibility.
Light arcs, power-driven vessels, towing and pushing, sailboats, fishing, NUC, RAM, constrained by draft, pilot boats, anchored and aground, every day shape and the Inland-only lights.
Short and prolonged blasts, maneuvering signals Inland and International, overtaking, bends, leaving the dock, and fog signals underway, at anchor and aground.
Red Right Returning, lateral lights and numbers, preferred channel, safe water, isolated danger, aids on the chart, ICW, Western Rivers and regulatory marks.
Work a chart problem start to finish: lat and long, the compass rose, TVMDC, the deviation table, 60D = ST, dead reckoning, fixes and distance off.
Tide terms and datums, reference and subordinate stations, flood, ebb, slack, set and drift, and the current triangle.
Inland vs International at a glance, frequent mistakes on lights and chart problems, the memory hooks and your exam-day order of work.
At the end of the book: A final review with Inland vs International differences, frequent mistakes and an exam-day checklist.
Practice plotting courses, bearings, distance-speed-time and compass error problems, each worked out step by step so you can see exactly where you went wrong.
Review every vessel's lights, shapes and whistle signals at a glance, with printable cards you can quiz yourself on anywhere.
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Every rule, light and buoy is drawn on its own page, so you learn each topic once, in a fixed order, instead of digging through legal text.
The review section puts Inland vs International, the frequent mistakes on lights and the chart-problem steps on a few pages you can go over the night before.
You already handle the boat. The book covers what daylight boating never asked of you: lights at night, day shapes, fog signals and plotting on paper.
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Yes, for the Rules of the Road and Chart Plot modules and the tides and currents part of Navigation General: lights, shapes, sound signals, buoys, plotting and the current triangle. Deck General & Safety topics (firefighting, first aid, stability, pollution rules) aren't in this book. It's written for people who already spend time on the water and doesn't treat you like a beginner.
It's checked against the USCG Navigation Rules (Inland Rules, 33 CFR Part 83, and COLREGS 1972), the COLREGS demarcation lines, the U.S. Aids to Navigation System, NOAA Chart No. 1 and the National Maritime Center requirements in 46 CFR Parts 10 and 11.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It isn't issued or approved by the U.S. Coast Guard or the National Maritime Center, and it doesn't come with a certificate or count toward a course or sea time.
No. It doesn't replace an approved course, your sea time or the official Navigation Rules. If you're already in a course, it's the same topics drawn one per page, so you can review lights, buoys and TVMDC at night or on weekends without rereading the manual.
No. The practice problems are written for this book and aren't official questions from any exam. They're there so you can practice the method.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as PDFs by email, sent to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment. No subscription.
We don't ship printed copies. You get a PDF by email, laid out to print page by page at home or at a print shop, so you can keep it in a binder or on board.
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Lights, buoys and TVMDC: you see them drawn, and you've got them.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
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