U.S. Chart No. 1 - 13th Edition: Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms Used on Paper and Electronic Navigational Charts

I bought this as required material in a navigation class at a maritime academy. It’s a great book that shows you what everything means on different charts. It was pretty difficult to navigate the book at first, but after I found out about the index of abbreviations, everything came together.

Nice to have on board when using paper charts

I really like this book because it contains all the details that are on the charts. Perfect to have a book onboard like this as a backup for when you do not have internet connections. I find this easier to read because I can just grab it when I am studying a chart that is up on my computer. So much easier than flipping though screens.

Reasonably priced difficult product to find glad to be able to purchase it

Written an printed by US government; this is the one in print you MUST have available at the chart table. Very well laid out and easy to find what you need, fast. Prints every 5 years or so (last edition was 2013 and "assume" this 2019 edition will go to reprint in 2024 or 2025). Also available "online" or PDF, but I find having this in print, by the chart table, to be very comforting, especially in any harbor I am not especially familiar with. EDC charts are great! But you better know wall all the dots, dashes, lines, etc. mean, or you will be "trading paint" with something.