Get Your Captain's License
by Charlie Wing
Fourth Edition - Bigger and Better
Author(s): Charlie Wing, Jim Austin
ISBN: 0071383158
DOI: 10.1036/0071383158
Format: Softcover, 300 illus. , 832 pages.
Get Your Captain's License offers the best test-prep resource available for the U.S. Coast Guard captains exams. This fully updated and greatly expanded new edition covers the exams for the most popular captain's ratings, including the Six-Pack charter boat license and the 100-ton Masters license.
Includes an interactive CD-ROM for unlimited, random practice testing; written text coving all 9,000 questions/answers that could appear on the Six-Pack and 100-ton exams; and 200 additional pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation.
Know you'll pass before you take the exam.
Here's the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to prepare for the U.S. Coast Guard captains ratings exams required for anyone who takes paying passengers on a boat, and useful for serious boaters who want to save money on insurance. This complete study tool includes:
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The six-passenger Six-Pack, Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement
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Every question and answer on the Coast Guard exams--all 9,000 of them
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An interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database, so you can take an unlimited number of practice exams
This new edition brings the book up-to-date with the Coast Guards expanded and revised database of questions and answers, and provides 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation.
For a list of the Table of Contents, click here.
Author Biography
Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which he obtained his U.S. Coast Guard Captains license. His frustration with available study guides for the Coast Guard exams led him to create International Marines best selling Get Your Captains License. He is also the author of four other International Marine books, including Boatowners Illustrated Handbook of Wiring and How Boat Things Work: An Illustrated Guide.
Dr. Jim Austin, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, served as navigator on a navy destroyer. He has taught Coast Guard license courses for many years. He is an instructor for the Ocean Navigator School of Seamanship and writes Rules of the Road newsletters for the Ocean Navigator Web site.
PEARSoft Corporation, creator of Get Your Captains License AutoExam software, offers a number of test preparation products based on their AutoExam software engine; see them at www.pearsoft.com.
Minimum System Requirements
- 200 Mhz or Better
- 32 MB RAM, 30 MB (min.) free hard disk space
- VGA Monitor
- WIN 95 or later
- 2x CD-ROM
- Mouse or equivalent pointing device.
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