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5 Star Top Professional Book on the Subject

This is a most extraordinary book intended for professional officers and petty officers, not your average day sailor.  Until I was offered this book as a gift, my personal D Skipper collection consisted of three items:

• Captain's Quick Guides Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns by Charlie Wing
• United States Coast Guard Navigation Rules and Regulations Handbook
• US Chart No. 1: Symbols, Abbreviations and terms used on Paper and Electronic Navigational Charts

This book at 542 pages is vastly more detailed, nuanced, complex, and rewarding than my three “cruising skipper” guides as it is intended for professional officers and petty officers with a particular respect for those manning warships and confronting warships in both international waters and inland waterways. It is part of the US Naval Institute Blue & Gold Professional Library that includes such standards as Command at Sea and Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations.

Continue reading “Review: Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road Ninth Edition by Craig H. Allen Sr. & Craig H. Allen Jr.”