Emergency Navigation second edition
by David Burch
How to find your position and shape a course to safety with limited or no instruments at all. Second edition, 2008.
Celestial Navigation, Second Edition
by David Burch
The textbook used in our online and home-study celestial nav course. Covers all aspects of ocean navigation. Also available in Hardcover.
Introduction to
Electronic Chart Navigation
by David Burch
A comprehensive guide to electronic chart navigation using vector charts, including an annotated list of ECDIS chart symbols.
Radar For Mariners, Revised Edition
by David Burch
Covers principles and practical use of radar. Used in our online course.
ENC Essentials
by David Burch
A short guide to a quick start use of electronic navigational charts
Electronic Chart Symbols
A compilation of nautical chart symbols used on electronic navigational charts (ENC).
Radar Workbook
By David Burch and Larry Brandt
Question and answers on marine radar. Supplement to Radar for Mariners
Modern Marine Weather, 3rd edition
by David Burch
From time honored maritime traditions to the latest technology. A highly-recommended text on practical marine weather. Also available in Hardcover.
Weather Workbook
Question and answers and resources on marine weather. Supplement to Modern Marine Weather
Inland and Coastal Navigation, 2nd Edition
By David Burch
A thorough, easy-to-read treatment of both traditional and modern small-craft navigation for power and sail.
Emergency Navigation Card
8.5 x 11 in, 30 mil laminated vinyl, printed both sides, water resistant.
Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr
By David Burch and Larry Brandt
Realistic, up-to-date practice exercises in all phases of small-craft navigation, power and sail, with excerpts from all required resources provided. Uses training chart 18465 Tr.
Navigation Workbook for Practice Underway
The next step beyond textbook and classroom.
Navigation Workbook 1210 Tr
By David Burch and Larry Brandt
Realistic, up-to-date practice exercises in all phases of small-craft navigation, power and sail, with excerpts from all required resources provided. Uses training chart 1210 Tr.
Hawaii By Sextant
By David Burch and Stephen Miller
An In-depth Exercise in Celestial Navigation Using Real Sextant Sights and Logbook Entries.
GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
By David Burch
No power? Batteries used up? This book and a Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on.
Starpath Celestial Navigation Work Forms
By David Burch
For All Sights and Tables, with Complete Instructions and Examples
How to use Plastic Sextants
— with Applications to Metal Sextants
and a Review of Sextant Piloting

by David Burch
Optimize your sextant sights, plastic and metal

Stark Tables for Clearing the Lunar Distance
by Bruce Stark
Find GMT from sextant sights and become an expert at cel nav in doing so.
Long Term Almanac
by Dr. Geoffrey Kolbe
Nautical Almanac data for sun and stars valid till 2050
Tidal Currents of Puget Sound
by NOAA, University of WA Dept. of Oceanography,
and WA Sea Grant
Current Charts plus Tide Prints of Puget Sound.
Mariners Pressure Atlas
Worldwide Mean Sea Level Pressures and Standard Deviations for Weather Analysis and Tropical Storm Warning.
Use of the Air Almanac for Marine Navigation
by David Burch
A detailed and comprehensive look at the Air Almanac and how to use it for navigation at sea.
1981 Nautical Almanac
1981 Nautical Almananc for use with USCG celestial navigation exam problems.
We the Navigators
By David Lewis
The classic study of Polynesian navigation and early long-distance voyages by sailing canoe.
Sailors Logbook
Ideal logbook for day sails or ocean passages, racing or cruising.
Secrets of the Viking Navigators
by Leif K. Karlsen
A new look at viking navigation, sun stones, and related topics
The Star Finder Book, 3rd ed.
by David Burch
A complete guide to the many uses of the 2102-D star finder. Turns the Star Finder into a hand-held planetarium.
North Star to Southern Cross
by Ray Lanterman and Wil Kyselka
Enlighten your star gazing underway with some mythology, some astronomy, and excellent monthly star maps.
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
by David Burch
Recommended by Kayak instructors, worldwide. New revised 4th edition, from Starpath Publications. Includes detailed coverage of currents and the Nav Rules.
Portneys Ponderables
by Joe Portney
Brain Teasers for Navigators
The Barometer Handbook
by David Burch
An in-depth look at barometers and applications of barometric pressure.
Robert Peary at the North Pole
By Thomas D. Davies
A Report to the National Geographic Society detailing the first expedition to successfully reach the North Pole.
Burch at the Helm
by David Burch
Articles on Navigation and weather from the pages of Blue Water Sailing Magazine.
Southeast Alaska Current Atlas
by Randel Washburne
The charts in this atlas show scaled arrows marking current speeds and directions at each of the official stations at sequential hours.
Pub. 102, International Code of Signals
Covers visual, sound, and radio communications.
Sea State Forecasting ebooks
Three classic texts on waves, swells, and sea state forcasting. Long out of print, but still very valuable.
Rowing into the Son
By Jordan Hanssen
An epic voyage by Starpath students, with many examples of the challenge of ocean rowing navigation and weather tactics.
Nav Rules Flash Cards
A great way to study the Nav Rules.
Notfall Navigation
von David Burch, Peer Reeh & Heinz Ressel
Navigation De Secours
par David Burch, Jean-Yves Guitton & Jean-Philippe Planas.
Sight Reduction Tables
Pub. 229, Pub. 249 and NAO Tables available.
Mariners Met Pack-South West Pacific
by Bob McDavitt
The Best Book Available on Southern Hemisphere Weather.
Captain James Riley's original Narrative
Capt. James Riley's sad adventures in the Sahara after his 1815 shipwreck.
Navigators Newsletter Archive
From the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation. All 99 issues, from 1983 to 2008.
Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road
by Craig H. Allen, Jr and Sr.
Most important guide to the most important book in Navigation
Canadian Current Atlas
Graphical current data for San Juan Islands, E. Juan de Fuca Strait, and the S. Straits of Georgia. The best source available for these regions.
The Wind Came All Ways
by Owen S. Lange
A 'real' weather book. Specialized, but most excellent.
The Navigation Rules,
US Inland and International Waters
The official USCG wording, publication COMDTINST MI6672.2D.
Nautical Almanac
USNO Edition
Annual list of star and planet locations plus other data needed for celestial navigation.
Oceanography and Seamanship
by William G. Van Dorn
Covers winds, waves, currents, stability, and more.
Chart No.1
Nautical Chart Symbols and Abbreviations
13th edition, April 15th, 2019.
Printed Users Guide for StarPilot Calculators
Printed version of the StarPilot Calculator Users Guide


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