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.

4th edition published October 2019 is for trainee pilots and ships' officers who aspire to be pilots.

Second Edition by Captain Johan Buysse. A practical guide to handling 1A and 1AS classed ships.

Suitable as a training manual and a day-to-day reference.