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 enlarge | Author: Charlie Wing
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
List Price: $64.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 289990
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 832
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0071383158
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.88076
UPC: 639785802853
EAN: 9780071383158
ASIN: 0071383158
Publication Date: September 16, 2003
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Condition: new condition, cd included, ships from TX.
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 Get Your Captain's License Ed. 3 October 15, 2004
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I received this volume in the mail about two weeks ago and have been hard at work using it to prepare for my exam. While not yet licensed, I have boated and sailed much of my life and am familiar with most of the material in it already.
The new edition is quite thorough. It not only presents all the questions, but has substantial guides preceding each section to help you understand the principles, which I find to be the most helpful feature of all. The volume's only weakness is it is written in a very dry, technical manner making it somewhat laborious to read. Also, if you are not already familiar with some of the concepts, you need to read more basic, outside resources to prepare you to study them in this book, otherwise it will leave you behind. However, if you are not familiar with the material in this text, you probably should not be applying for licensure yet either.
Finally, the new version of the software is very good. It still does not offer to test on the navigation problems. The author correctly states it cannot do this because one cannot plot with compass and parallel ruler from charts on a computer screen. However, I wish the software offered the tests anyway so that I could at least put my answers down and have it confirm them. It would just be more convenient for practicing.
Cliff
 Don't be tempted by the included CD April 6, 2003
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
The software not only is simplistic, but also is unstable.
 A Good Start January 8, 2003
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
No single text is going to allow you to ace the test, but this should be one of the ones you use. This is the second edition and supposedly updated as of 2000. While much of the information is available on the Coast Guard web site, Wing does a good job of "packaging it" to make it much more readable. I found the light and signal summaries worth the price of the book. Without these two summaries, memorization of the many, many lights and signals would be much harder. Another plus is a "plain english" version as well as the original rules - much more readable and easier to learn.
Truth in advertising December 10, 2001
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
From the intro: "The instructional text and illustrations provide an answer to an estimated 95% of the questions". Nonsense. Maybe 65%, in sketchy outline at that. But either you're just cramming answers to the questions, (which are available online for free) and can use the somewhat awkward CD or you are a serious student of the sea and will have or want a complete reference library to back this volume up.
So, it's a valuable book, but not as valuable as they say it is or as it could be.
Don't Buy This Book September 19, 2001
8 out of 19 found this review helpful
"Get Your Captain's License" is wholesale disaster from McGraw-Hillunder the International Marine label. From their web site International Marine cannot be reached by phone or email. The CD, supposedly generic, runs on Windows, not on Mac and if you dont like it,according to McGraw-Hill dont buy this hyped up book (ALTHOUGH this discrepancy does not appear in any of the ads). The text is rife with errors and misprints. Surly people at McGraw-Hill admit that if you bought the book you can send it back postpaid, a process that takes weeks for a refund on a book you bought to use, not to bicker over.It just ain't worth it!
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