Navigational information about local waters
When the Navigator is appraising his passage plan, he/she should be prepared to look for the relevant information in the appropriate reference books. The British "Pilot Books" cover the entire globe in 72 volumes. The electronic version is called e-NP (Nautical Publication). All sorts of information can be collated, stored digitally and presented in an appropriate manner as needed on an electronic chart. Never the less, these charts still don 't contain so much information as to make Pilot Books/eNP superfluous: they should still be consulted.
In a privately-published sailing directions, one can find the following informative text about Rio Gallegos in Patagonia:
The Amirality List of Radio Signals gives a description of all forms of radio signals in six volumes:
- NP281 (Parts 1 & 2) - Maritime Radio Stations
- NP282 - Radio Aids to Navigation, Satellite Navigation Systems, Differential GNSS (DGNSS) Legal Time, Radio Time Signals and Electronic Position Fixing Systems
- NP283 (Parts 1 & 2) - Maritime Safety Information Services
- NP284 - Meteorological Observations Stations
- NP285 - Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
- NP286 (Parts 1- 7) Pilot Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations
Navigational handbooks common'y set out traffic rules, but one can aho encounter special publications such as this one from Finlan
Regulations for the Kiel Canal in pdf format, downloaded frum the Interne