United States Coast Pilot
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United States Coast Pilot is a ten-volume American navigation publication distributed yearly by the Office of Coast Survey, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Oce
The front cover of Coast Pilot Volume Five
Sailing Directions
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Sailing Directions are volumes published by various National Hydrographic Offices or Coast Guard Agencies which provide essential information to support port entry and coastal navigation for all class
United States Coast Pilot
…weekly Notice to Mariners. Coast Pilot volumes provide more detailed information than the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency-produced multi-volume Sailing Directions publication because Sailing Directions is intended exclusively for the oceangoing mariner. Various charts and pilot books for North American waters…
Portolan Chart by Albino de Canepa, 1489.
Part of the Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques, 1375, National French Library.
Portuguese Portolan by Jorge de Aguiar (1492), Yale University.