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with coast pilot requirements, and with the purposes of other nautical publications. 

 He should avoid entering in the record a mass of information that will never be used, 

 but which will have to be sorted over and only delays the writer of the manuscript. 



a. Field Record Books.— T\\ese books are prepared for the convenience of the 

 reviser and writer; they also constitute the permanent record which is retained in the 

 files of the Coast Pilot Section for reference during the life of the edition. Large blank 

 record books, about 10 by 14 inches in size, are most suitable for this purpose. Stock 

 No. 50187 is satisfactory. 



The printed pages are cut from two Coast Pilots and mounted on the left-hand 

 pages of the record books. This leaves a wide margin on the left-hand page and the 

 entire right-hand page for the entry of notes and corrections. It is advantageous to 

 mount the text in separate paragraphs, with spaces between them. Then the informa- 

 tion selected from the coast pilot files should be entered, with a reference to the authority 

 in each case. Some of this can be pasted, and some written in ink, using ink of a differ- 

 ent color from that to be used by the reviser in the field. 



Each entry written in these record books should be referred to the exact place in 

 the text of the Pilot to which it refers, by a leader or arrow, by corresponding numbers, 

 or by some other unmistakable means. With a little care the reviser, at the end of his 

 field work, will have a nearly complete rough manuscript, thereby reducing consider- 

 ably the time required for preparing the manuscript for the printer. 



In one of the record books a definite section should be set aside for the assembly 

 of tables for the appendix of the Coast Pilot (see 9135B(5)). As far as possible the 

 tables should be prepared in the Office and checked in the field. 



h. Publications, instruments, etc. — The following publications, instruments, and 

 other material are required for a field inspection: 



Publications 



Charts of the area, corrected to date— two complete sets (three copies of some) will be needed. 



Coast Pilot, extra copies. 



Current Tables and other publications on currents, such as Current Charts. 



Latest Coast Pilot Supplement, extra copies. 



Light Lists. 



Notices to Mariners (arrange to have them mailed to reviser in the field). 



Pamphlets and maps from oil companies. 



Privately published coast pilots. 



Radio Navigational Aids, H. O. 205. 



Radio Weather Aids to Navigation, H. O. 206. 



Style Manual (Government Printing OflBce). 



Tide Tables. 



United States Corps of Engineers publications: 



Port Series. 



Port and Terminal Charges. 



List of Bridges over Navigable Waters. (Have a copy corrected to date for the region involved.) 



Annual Report. 



Rules and Regulations. 



Instruments 

 Binoculars. 

 Boat compass. 



Boxes for stationery, books, and instruments. 

 Brief case. 

 Chart cases. 



Ditty box with pencils, dividers, erasers, ink, clips, rubber stamps, triangles, ruler, etc. 

 Drawing instruments. 

 Field desk. 

 Fountain pens. 

 Leadline. 

 Parallel rulers. 

 Planetable (see theodolite) . 

 Prismatic compass. 



