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 - 46th Edition, 2013
covers the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook, NJ to Cape Henry, VA, including Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay.

This publication has been updated through: 19-MAY-13

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Coast Pilot 3

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	Sandy Hook to Cape Henry	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 4	New Jersey Coast	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 5	Intracoastal Waterway	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 6	Delaware Bay	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 7	Chesapeake and Delaware Canal	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 8	Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Coast	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 9	Chesapeake Bay Entrance	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 10	Chesapeake Bay, James River	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 11	Chesapeake Bay, York and Rappahannock Rivers	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 12	Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 13	Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent and Severn Rivers	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 14	Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore	[XML] [HTML]
Chapter 15	Baltimore to Head of Chesapeake Bay	[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 46th Edition, 2013
Date	Download

26-Jan-13	(PDF)
02-Mar-13	(PDF)
17-Mar-13	(PDF)
24-Mar-13	(PDF)
12-May-13	(PDF)

Updates for Previous Edition

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