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Title: Marine Navigation Workbook: Piloting and Celestial and Electronic Navigation by Richard R. Hobbs ISBN: 1-55750-385-0 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A companion for all deck officers
Comment: This is a companion workbook to the Marine Woorkbook by the same author. The workbook contains a chapter-by-chapter compendium of supplemental queries and problems designed to assist the student to master the material presented in the textbook--complete with a handy three-ring binder. An appendix provides complete answers and solutions to all odd-numbered problems along with plotting sheets and forms. For all practice mariners(all third deck officers)this is like a "bible". For me it is an amazing book and it is a companion in my studies.

Rating: 1
Summary: Pass this one by
Comment: As a former instructor of Navigation at the U.S. Naval Academy, I am intimately familiar with this work. It was (and is, presumably) the official text for piloting and celestial navigation at USNA. That said, my fellow lieutenants and I roundly despised this book. The author, Captain Hobbs, fails to explain simple navigational concepts with any clarity. His homework and example problems require the attendant workbook. This may seem a boon, but the arrangement precludes the use of actual navigational publications (sight reduction tables and the nautical almanac, published by the Naval Observatory), limiting Hobbs' use in practical navigation. When I was preparing for class, I would invariably use Bowditch's American Practical Navigator to refresh my memory or answer the midshipmen's tougher questions. After my first semester of instructing, I never opened Hobbs' book again, and did not assign readings from it to my midshipmen. If you are serious about navigation, pick up Bowditch. If you are a navigational neophyte, start with Dutton's.

Rating: 2
Summary: Marine Navigation
Comment: Today I decided to read the section on Sextants. Much to my surprise, the first two pages of the section were fine, but the next two were blank. When I turned to the next two, they were printed but the previous two were skipped. The entire chapter on sextant was in this "pattern". A little hard to gain any understanding of sextants with this as a source.