Boater's Pocket Reference app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 3440 ratings )

Reference Navigation
Developer: Double Dog Studios

4.99 USD

Current version: 4.1.6, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 24 Jul 2009
App size: 103.09 Mb

Hundreds of pages of boating information on your iPhone,iPod Touch or iPad! The Boater’s Pocket Reference caters to all levels of boating expertise with a wide variety of content including 800 illustrations and photographs and a myriad of charts and graphs. Boater’s Pocket Reference is a popular and useful printed book and the app is even better.

Handy, Fact-Filled Boating Guide

Boater’s Pocket Reference offers handy, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating.

Who needs this book?

New boaters: This app provides an extensive introduction to all aspects of boating.

Experienced boaters: A great reference and memory jogger.

Everyone who wants to make their boating safer and more enjoyable.

Features:

* Piloting and Navigation—including the use of charts, GPS, radar, and sonar.
* Communications—VHF, SSB, satellite.
* U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard boating regulations
* International, U.S., and Canadian Navigation Rules (Rules of the Road)
* Understanding aids to navigation
* Understanding weather—air movement, fronts, clouds, weather maps.
* Boat types, design, and construction as well as boating terminology
* The essentials of good seamanship—the basics of operating a boat.
* Marlinespike seamanship—lines and knots—including 50 different knots.
* Mechanical—engines and propellers.
* Electrical—circuits, DC and AC wiring, batteries, chargers, inverters, lightning.
* Boat trailering tips, techniques, maintenance, wiring.
* General reference tables—time zones, holidays, weight and volume of liquids, and more.
* Extensive unit conversion tables
* Boating resources—organizations, phone numbers, web sites, including Coast Guard and Power Squadron.
* Glossary of marine terminology.
* Over 100 boating-related calculators.

No boater can afford to be without this valuable and handy guide.

About the Author
Thomas McEwen is an avid boater and former mining engineer. Tom is also a member of the Boulder Valley Sail and Power Squadron in Colorado.

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Pros and cons of Boater's Pocket Reference app for iPhone and iPad

Boater's Pocket Reference app good for

Not only terminology but plenty of technical and theoretical knowledge. All understood and known would make you an expert. Worth five stars with a maintenance program update!

I was impressioned by the graphics and details. I recomend for everyone!

This is better than 5 stars .Handy,quick to use and comprehensive. I would recommend to all boaters. More color and multihulls info would be nice but I know an update is coming Jerry

Amazing detail, wealth of useful information. EVerything you need to know from anchoring to fixing electricl systems. As a new boat owner this app has been an amazing value. Get this and the "Marine: [your location]" app for navigation

No place to provide feedback in app that I can find. Re: ROPE... There is one on a boat... The bell rope.

I must have purchased over a hundred apps over the years. This is the first time I felt it necessary to follow up and post a positive review. So much content that covers Canada and USA. Its loaded with information and a great reference. Its a hidden gem! Thanks for putting all this great information together.

Some bad moments

This is bar-none the best informational boating app on the market...period!!! Written for both the beginner or an expert, this book is perfectly laid out to access any bit of information you may want/need to know about boats.

I have own two boats and I have been boating for some time, and I find myself returning to read this book quite often. It is an excellent source of basic seamanship. Every recreational skipper should have this book as a reference. Very useful.

This is the best app for boating Ive found. If you cant find what you need here, you dont belong on a boat.

This is really a great informational app. Any thing you need to know or brush up on is in this electronic book. Ive been boating for over 25 years and Im steal finding out good info from this app.

Everything you need to know and should know before taking any boat out on the water.

Just learning about boats. This is getting me a great head start before my formal training. In the future I can see this as a good app to go back to for a quick reference.

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