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Recommended Reading
For additional instruction check out these two books and a U.S. gov-
ernment manual:
The Radar Book: Effective Navigation and Collision Avoidance, by
Kevin Monahan. ISBN 1-932310-05-3, 235 pages, paperback. Published
in 2003 by FineEdge.com LLC, 14004 Biz Point Lane, Anacortes, WA
98221 USA.
Radar for Mariners, by David F. Burch. ISBN 0-07-139867-8, 248
pages, paperback, includes CD-ROM with a radar simulator and other
radar resources. Published in 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Co. To order,
write Customer Service Dept., P.O. Box 547, Blacklick, OH 43004 USA.
Navigation Rules, International-Inland, by the United States Coast
Guard. COMDTINST M16672.2D; ISBN 0-16-050057-5, 229 pages.
Published in 1999 by U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent
of Documents, Mail Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328 USA.
Navigation rules are for sale at U.S. government printing offices, or
can be downloaded free from the U.S. Coast Guard web site.
This manual contains the International Regulations for Prevention of
Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS). It also contains the Inland
Navigation Rules, which govern all inland U.S. waters. Several of these
rules address the use of radar in collision avoidance.
The document is available free in PDF format at the Coast Guard's
Navigation Center web site. Log-on to
www.navcen.uscg.gov and click the
Nav Rules link near the top of the page.