BOOKS
Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 64th Edition: The Boating World's Most Respected Reference, Completely Updated & Revised with New Charts, Photographs & Illustrations
by Elbert S. Maloney (Author), Hearst Books, September 2003, ISBN 1-58816-89-0.

Dutton's Navigation and Piloting by Benjamin Dutton, revised by Thomas J. Cutler, Naval Institute Press; 15th edition, January 2003, ISBN 155750248X.

The American Practical Navigator: Bowditch by Nathaniel Bowditch, National Imagery and Mapping Agency Staff, United States Government Printing Office, October 2002, ISBN 0-93937-54-4.

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Catalog of Charts and Publications – Free catalog available where charts are sold, or on-line at http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/ccatalogs.htm

Dates of latest editions of NOAA charts – Pamphlet available where charts are sold. For the most up-to-date information (updated daily) reference http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/dole.htm

On-Line Chart Viewer published by the Office of Coast Survey View NOAA’s 1000+ coastal and Great Lakes charts up-to-date with the most recent Local Notice to Mariners; great reference and planning tool found at www.nauticalcharts.gov/viewer.

Local Notice to Mariners is published by the United States Coast Guard by district (the Great Lakes are District 9). It provides updates to charts, aids to navigation, hazards to navigation and other up-to-date information of use to mariners. It can be obtained at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/d9/default.htm. Register for e-mail notification; no mail copies effective 4/1/2004.

The United States Coast Pilot® consists of a series of books covering a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes (Coast Pilot 6). Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart. Coast Pilots are now available for download at http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm. Next scheduled edition, March 2006.

Water Level Station Monitoring is an on-line link to the Great Lakes water level monitoring stations and is updated every six minutes http://www.glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/monitor.

CLASSES
United States Power Squadrons offers classes both to the public and to their members. For information on the public classes go to http://www.usps.org/d_stuff/classes.html and enter your zip code.

USCG Auxiliary offers classes to the public and their members. For information go to http://www.cgaux.org

Chart No. 1: Nautical Chart Symbols Abbreviations and Terms  Current Edition: 10  
Corrected through U.S. Notice to Mariners No. 50/2003 (13 December 2003)
Can be viewed and/or downloaded from http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/chartno1.htm

Local Notice to Mariners is published by the United States Coast Guard by district (the Great Lakes are District 9). It provides updates to charts, aids to navigation, hazards to navigation and other up-to-date information of use to mariners. Although this publication is available via mail, it is easily obtained at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/d9/default.htm.

The United States Coast Pilot® consists of a series of books covering a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes (Coast Pilot 6). Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart. Provisional versions of the Coast Pilots are now available for download at http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/nsd/ecp.htm

Water Level Station Monitoring is an on-line link to the Great Lakes water level monitoring stations and is updated every six minutes http://www.glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/monitor.

Coast Guard Boating Safety
Official website of the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety! Learn how to prevent accidents, injuries, and fatalities while boating. Review safety tips, news, recalls, defects, and laws and regulations you should know.  http://www.uscgboating.org/

CLASSES
United States Power Squadrons offers classes both to the public and to their members. For information on the public classes go to http://www.usps.org/d_stuff/classes.html and click on Boat Course Schedules at the bottom of the home page.

USCG Auxiliary offers classes to the public and their members. For information go to http://www.cgaux.org/.