FREE Electronic Tides & Currents Information
NOAA Online Tides & Currents Map
NOAA Current Predictions Online for WA
NOAA Current Predictions Online for WA
NOAA Current Predictions Online for WA
NOAA Current Predictions Online for WA
NOAA Current Predictions Online for WA
NOAA Tides & Currents Online Only in 2021
Downloadable/Printable NOAA Tides and Currents Info
Downloadable/Printable NOAA Tides and Currents Info
" Due to the availability of electronic predictions products, NOAA is ending the production of these printed publications. The final printed edition will provide tide and tidal current predictions for the calendar year 2020. Tide and Tidal Current predictions are available through NOAA online service "
Downloadable/Printable NOAA Tides and Currents Info
Downloadable/Printable NOAA Tides and Currents Info
Downloadable/Printable NOAA Tides and Currents Info
Online Tide Tables for Washington State. Printable/PDF downloadable. Click the station you're interested in. Seattle is under "Puget Sound".
Understand What Buoys and Other Aids to Navigation Mean
FREE USCG Brochure on ATONS
FREE Reference Sheets on USCG Aids to Navigation
FREE Reference Sheets on USCG Aids to Navigation
What You Need to Know About the Markers on the Water.
FREE Reference Sheets on USCG Aids to Navigation
FREE Reference Sheets on USCG Aids to Navigation
FREE Reference Sheets on USCG Aids to Navigation
Download and print, or save to your phone or tablet, to have as quick reference on-board.
FREE pamphlet: U.S. Aids to Navigation System
FREE pamphlet: U.S. Aids to Navigation System
FREE pamphlet: U.S. Aids to Navigation System
This pamphlet is designed to help the recreational boater better understand the principle use and identification of the U.S. Aids to Navigation System. From USCG District 13.
FREE: Rules of Road Quick Reference
FREE pamphlet: U.S. Aids to Navigation System
FREE pamphlet: U.S. Aids to Navigation System
Rules of road, lights, horns etc.
Understand What Chart Symbols Mean: FREE
US Chart #1
Canada Chart #1
Canada Chart #1
The master 'key' to all chart symbols used on US charts. You can download here for free to print or keep with you on an electronic device such as phone, tablet, computer.
Canada Chart #1
Canada Chart #1
Canada Chart #1
The master 'key' to all chart symbols used on Canadian charts. You can download here for free to print or keep with you on an electronic device such as phone, tablet, computer.
Canada Chart #1
Access to FREE Online Charts
NOAA RCN Chart Viewer
From NOAA Office of Coast Survey. Offers features such as being able to overlay satellite images
Navionics Chart Viewer WebApp
You can see basic Navionics Charts from your web browser here. Navionics is a Garmin Company.
NOAA Paper Charts are Being Sunset
Paper Charts are Going Away
NOAA is sunsetting traditional NOAA Paper Charts. This means the end of paper and raster nautical chart Production, and the introduction of NOAA custom charts.
Know the Navigation Rules: FREE
Navigation Rules from US Coast Guard
These are the rules that all vessels must follow, whether on international or inland waters. If you are skipper of a vessel, you are obliged to know, understand, and comply with these rules.
FREE US Government Navigational Resources
Light List: Pacific Coast
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
Volume VI, For Pacific Coast and outlying Pacific Islands.This publication contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation.
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
Published by NoAA. Volume 10 is for the Pacific Coast except California (including Puget Sound). The Coast Pilot supplements the navigational information shown on NOAA nautical charts. The publication is continually updated and maintained...
Washington Tide Tables
US Coast Pilot 10 - Pacific
Washington Tide Tables
Online Tide Tables for Washington State. Printable/PDF downloadable. Seattle is under "Puget Sound".
More navigation information
Local Notice To Mariners for District 13 (WA, OR, ID, MT)
This is released weekly from the Navigation Center of the Coast Guard. Notices cover bridge, buoy and construction and other mariner-related information.
Hand bearing compass recommendations
How to report errors on Nautical Charts
From Ballard-based David Burch of the Starpath School of Navigation
Just for fun: some navigation history
