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United States Coast Pilot®

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Book Index

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 5 - 44th Edition, 2016 covers the Gulf of Mexico from Key West, FL to the Rio Grande, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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This publication has been updated through: 12-February-2017

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Coast Pilot 5

  Chapter
Description
Downloads
Front Title page, Preface and Table of Contents
Chapter 1 General Information
Chapter 2 Navigation Regulations
Chapter 3 Gulf of Mexico
Chapter 4 Key West to Tampa Bay
Chapter 5 Tampa Bay to Apalachee Bay
Chapter 6 Apalachee Bay to Mobile Bay
Chapter 7 Mobile Bay to Mississippi River
Chapter 8 Mississippi River
Chapter 9 Mississippi River to Sabine Pass
Chapter 10 Sabine Pass to San Luis Pass
Chapter 11 San Luis Pass to the Rio Grande
Chapter 12 Intracoastal Waterway
Chapter 13 Puerto Rico
Chapter 14 Virgin Islands
Appendix A Appendix A
Appendix B Appendix B
Weekly Record of Updates Weekly Record of Updates
Index Index
   
Updates for 44th Edition, 2016
Date Download
03-Jul-16(PDF)
07-Aug-16(PDF)
21-Aug-16(PDF)
28-Aug-16(PDF)
18-Sep-16(PDF)
04-Dec-16(PDF)
Updates for Previous Edition
Corrections for the previous edition will be available for 60 days after the release of the new edition.

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