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Marine Navigation Workbook: Piloting and Celestial and Electronic Navigation | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard R. Hobbs
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1975069
Media: Loose Leaf
Edition: 4 Lslf
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 10.5 x 2.1
ISBN: 1557503850
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9781557503855
ASIN: 1557503850
Publication Date: November 1997
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 A companion for all deck officers January 17, 2001
This is a companion workbook to the Marine Woorkbook by the same author. The workbook contains a chapter-by-chapter compendium of supplemental queries and problems designed to assist the student to master the material presented in the textbook--complete with a handy three-ring binder. An appendix provides complete answers and solutions to all odd-numbered problems along with plotting sheets and forms. For all practice mariners(all third deck officers)this is like a "bible". For me it is an amazing book and it is a companion in my studies.
 Pass this one by December 18, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a former instructor of Navigation at the U.S. Naval Academy, I am intimately familiar with this work. It was (and is, presumably) the official text for piloting and celestial navigation at USNA. That said, my fellow lieutenants and I roundly despised this book. The author, Captain Hobbs, fails to explain simple navigational concepts with any clarity. His homework and example problems require the attendant workbook. This may seem a boon, but the arrangement precludes the use of actual navigational publications (sight reduction tables and the nautical almanac, published by the Naval Observatory), limiting Hobbs' use in practical navigation. When I was preparing for class, I would invariably use Bowditch's American Practical Navigator to refresh my memory or answer the midshipmen's tougher questions. After my first semester of instructing, I never opened Hobbs' book again, and did not assign readings from it to my midshipmen. If you are serious about navigation, pick up Bowditch. If you are a navigational neophyte, start with Dutton's.
 Marine Navigation November 30, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Today I decided to read the section on Sextants. Much to my surprise, the first two pages of the section were fine, but the next two were blank. When I turned to the next two, they were printed but the previous two were skipped. The entire chapter on sextant was in this "pattern". A little hard to gain any understanding of sextants with this as a source.
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