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American Practical Navigator (Bowditch) Physical Book

This monumental reference work commonly referred to as "Bowditch," has been continuously updated since it was first published in 1802. During the last 200 years over 75 editions, or a million copies have been published. This new Bicentennial Edition covers the latest advances in electronic navigation and digital charting technology. It also covers traditional navigation like celestial, and piloting and dead reckoning. Bowditch contains numerous tables which have been valued for years by practicing navigators. It is carried on the bridge of every U.S. Navy ship.

This is the latest edition of Bowditch available as a hardcover book.

The included CD has a complete indexed and book-marked pdf version of the book along with many other features such as calculator versions of the many tables that occur in the text. Instead of table interpolation, just type in the values and get out the exact values you need.

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