Provides useful guidance on the transition from paper to electronic charts.

The ECDIS Procedures Guide provides recommendations designed to accompany a ship’s Safety Management System (SMS) regarding the use of ECDIS for navigation and voyage planning. It also provides guidance on how ECDIS should be configured and used as a ship’s primary means of navigation. The 2019 Guide has been fully updated to reflect the latest software and procedural changes, which have been combined with observations on known ECDIS detentions.

This book provides instructions both in the principals of navigation and in the way to use, with speed and accuracy, all the various techniques involved in putting those principals into practice.

A key to the symbols and abbreviations used on Admiralty and International paper charts compiled by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

6th edition 1992, the book is damaged on the front cover.