Hiroaki Kobayashi has trained 1500 mariners in ship handling over twenty years and he has systematized the methods of safe navigation into nine elemental techniques. Taking a rigorous and scientific look at good practice and attitudes, good seamanship can be viewed as a series of concrete technical functions, which can be in terms of competencies.

It provides the reader with a detailed introduction to both the UK maritime environment and UK shipping industry.

Provides useful guidance on the transition from paper to electronic charts.