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 3 - 42nd Edition, 2009
Coast Pilot 3 covers the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Cape Henry, including the New Jersey Coast, Delaware Bay, Philadelphia, the Delaware - Maryland - Virginia coast, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Chapter	Description
Front Pages	Title page, Preface, Graphic Index, and Table of Contents
Chapter 1	General Information
Chapter 2	Navigation Regulations
Chapter 3	Sandy Hook to Cape Henry
Chapter 4	New Jersey Coast
Chapter 5	Intracoastal Waterway
Chapter 6	Delaware Bay
Chapter 7	Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Chapter 8	Delaware - Maryland - Virginia Coast
Chapter 9	Chesapeake Bay Entrance
Chapter 10	Chesapeake Bay, James River
Chapter 11	Chesapeake Bay, York and Rappahannock Rivers
Chapter 12	Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River
Chapter 13	Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent and Severn Rivers
Chapter 14	Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore
Chapter 15	Baltimore to Head of Chesapeake Bay
Appendix A
Appendix B	Distances, Meteorological and Climatological Data
Appendix C	Marine Protected Areas
Index

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