Get Your Captain's License: The Complete Study Guide, Second Edition - Softcover

Wing, Charlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071358196 ISBN 13: 9780071358194

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 captain's ratings exams required for anyone who takes paying passengers on a boat, and useful for serious boaters who want to save money on insurance. Included are the six-passenger "Six-Pack," Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement. Every question and answer on the Coast Guard exams--all 6,215 of them--is provided. The interactive CD-ROM allows you to take an unlimited number of practice exams, randomly selects questions from the database, simulating a real exam, grades you, tells you which questions you got wrong, and keeps a log of your test results. This new edition brings the book up-to-date with the Coast Guard's expanded and revised database of questions and answers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 captain's 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:

• The six-passenger "Six-Pack," Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement
• Every question and answer on the Coast Guard exams--all 9,000 of them
• 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 Guard's expanded and revised database of questions and answers, and provides 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows 95 or later
• 200MHz or higher
• 32MB of RAM
• VGA Monitor
• 2x CD-ROM
• 30MB (minimum) of free disk space
• Mouse or equivalent pointing device

About the Author:

Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin College, founding Americas first two do-it-yourself house-building schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071358196
• ISBN 13: 9780071358194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 520