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Drill and code book of United States Power Squadrons

United States Power Squadrons. [from old catalog] · 1916 · [Boston?] · 12 pictures

A 1916 drill and code manual issued by the United States Power Squadrons in Boston for civilian motorboat owners practicing naval-style formation maneuvers and signaling. Diagrams reduce boats to numbered hatched ovals, with dotted outlines marking prior positions and dashed arcs tracing turns dash usable as abstract movement notation, numbered marker shapes, and hand-drawn arrow and path motifs.

Signals and signaling · Yachts and yachting

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0