United States Coast Pilot®

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The United States Coast Pilot® consists of a series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes. Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart.

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Coast Pilot 1 - 42nd Edition, 2012
covers the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and part of Massachusetts, from West Quoddy Head in Maine to Provincetown in Massachusetts. Major ports are at Portsmouth, NH and Boston, MA.

This publication has been updated through: 10-FEB-13

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Coast Pilot 1

Chapter	Description	Alternate Downloads (Beta)*
Front	Title page, Preface, Graphic Index, and Table of Contents	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 1	General Information	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 2	Navigation Regulations	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 3	Eastport to Cape Cod	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 4	Quoddy Narrows to Calais, Maine	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 5	Quoddy Narrows to Petit Manan Island, Maine	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 6	Petit Manan Island to Jericho Bay, Maine	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 7	Jericho Bay to Penobscot Bay, Maine	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 8	Muscongus Bay to Cape Elizabeth, Maine	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 9	Cape Elizabeth, Maine to Cape Ann, Massachusetts	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 10	Cape Ann to Boston Harbor, Massachusetts	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 11	Boston Harbor and Approaches	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 12	Minots Ledge to Provincetown, Massachusetts	[XML] [HTML]
Appendix A	Appendix A	[XML] [HTML]
Appendix B	Appendix B	[XML] [HTML]
Weekly Record of Updates	Weekly Record of Updates	[XML] [HTML]
Index	Index
		*Not for Navigation

Updates for 42nd Edition, 2012
Date	Download

25-Aug-12	(PDF)
16-Oct-12	(PDF)
28-Oct-12	(PDF)
08-Dec-12	(PDF)
12-Jan-13	(PDF)
26-Jan-13	(PDF)
02-Feb-13	(PDF)
09-Feb-13	(PDF)

Updates for Previous Edition

Corrections for the previous edition will be available for 60 days after the release of the new edition.