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This is the 68th edition of Chapman Piloting & Seamanship.

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ABOUT THIS EDITION

The reputation of Chapman Piloting & Seamanship as a unique and authoritative resource for recreational mariners rests on the work of countless organizations and hundreds of people since its first publication in 1917. Their collective wisdom is at the heart of this book, but to name them all would be impossible. The editorial team for the 68th Edition is as follows:

Jonathan Eaton, Co-Editor

Jonathan Eaton developed, edited, and published some 400 boating books in his career as editor and publisher of McGraw-Hills International Marine book imprint. He has developed books and reference guides for the U.S. Power Squadrons, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, the American Sailing Association, and West Marine. As co-owner of Tilbury House Publishers, he has published A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World. A former sailing instructor and intercollegiate dinghy racer, Jon crews aboard a Frers 33 and sails a C & C 24 and a Beneteau First 285 along the coast of Maine whenever he can.

John Wooldridge, Co-Editor

John Wooldridge is a lifelong boater who began writing and photographing boats professionally in 1977. He is Editor-at-Large for Power & Motoryacht magazine and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Yachting and PassageMaker magazines. He is a past contributor to Chapman, wrote the Chapman Boaters Log, edited Chapman Chart No. 1, and holds a U.S. Coast Guard OUPV 50-Ton license. John has cruised both coasts of North America and the waters of Europe and the Western Pacific, and has made a transatlantic voyage.

John Whiting, Consulting Editor

John H. Whiting, a long-standing boater, retired in 2016 from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. His Auxiliary qualifications included Coxswain, Personal Watercraft Operator, and Telecommunications Specialist. He was also an Auxiliary Operational Specialist with training in Coastal Navigation, Seamanship, Search and Rescue, and Weather, and he performed safety patrols on Arizona lakes. John lives in Arizona, where he and his wife, Leanne, enjoy cruising inland waters on their twin SeaDoo personal watercraft.

These editors also thank Charles B. Husick and Dan Fales for their contributions to the 66th Edition; Richard Thiel, Adam Cort, Richard Doc Clinchy, and Peter Janssen for their contributions to the 67th Edition; and Elbert Mack Maloney for piloting the Chapman ship through many editions prior to his passing in 2014.

Contents

Part I Boating Essentials

Part II Seamanship

Part III Safety

Part IV Piloting

Part V On-Board Systems

Part VI Further Aspects of Boating

Part VII Appendices

The dust jacket of the 196465 edition of Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handlingas Chapman Piloting & Seamanship was then calledfeatures a photo of a chart spread out on a desk. Ready for use on the chart are dividers, parallel rules, and a chartplotter, suggesting that someone is planning a coastal passage. In the background are a model square-rigged ship and a globe showing the Americas and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, suggesting that a mariner could go anywhere in the world with this book and a boat.

Recently I searched online for the 196465 edition, and that jacket photo came back to me with the full force of recognition. I looked at that photo every day for months at age 13 while taking the U.S. Power Squadrons entry-level boating course. Chapman was then, and remains today, the foundation text for boating in the U.S. and beyond, and it seemed to me then, with its daydream-inspiring cover photo, like the doorway into a magic kingdom. It still does.

I had joined the U.S. Power Squadrons in 1965 because my dad was teaching a navigation course. It was the same year that Charles F. Chapman met with Elbert Mack Maloney in New York City and convinced Mack to take over the writing, reorganizing, and updating of Chapmanwhich Mack did for 42 years. In 2007, Mack stepped back to a consulting editor role but remained the indispensable member of the Chapman publishing team. He was there to welcome me and keep me on task when I was hired in 2012 to prepare the 67th Edition.

Together with Peter Janssen and other contributors, we reorganized the 67th Edition to more closely relate to boating as it is practiced in todays era of technology. We grouped a new chapter on engines with two existing chapters one on electrical systems and one on electronic communicationsto create a new major subdivision for onboard systems. We integrated the use of GPS and chartplotters for the first time with traditional chart-and-compass navigationbut without any loss of detail or emphasis in Chapmans unsurpassed coverage of the latter. And we added new material in almost every chapter. I knew the time for these changes had come, but without Macks blessing and oversight, I dont know where I would have found the courage to make them.

The 68th Edition of Chapman celebrates the 100th year of continual publication of The Bible of Boating. Mack Maloney passed away in 2014, so I was denied his confidence-inspiring assistance in preparing the revisions and updates for this edition. Fortunately, John Wooldridge and John Whiting stepped forward to help steer the ship watch by watch. Notwithstanding the inevitable occasional confusions of two Johns and a Jon in a team of three (Whos on first?), it has been a great privilege to work with these two fine gentlemen.

It is only fitting that Mack should have the last word. His preface to the 67th edition ended thus: Following in the true Chapman tradition, this edition remains clear, thorough, and always comradelya book designed to help you and everyone on board your boat stay safe, have fun, and become skilled as a boater. Above all, I wish you as much joy from your boating years as I have had from mine.

Jonathan Eaton

F ew books in todays world are used with equal enthusiasm by parents, children, and grandchildren. Few books grow with the changing technology of an age-old art and science. Few books are loved and respectedand at the same time are so authoritative that they are relied upon to set standards in a court of law. One of these rare books is