Know you'll pass before you take the exam. Here's the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to prepare for the U.S. Coast Guard captain's ratings exams required for anyone who takes paying passengers on a boat, and useful for serious boaters who want to save money on insurance. This complete study tool includes: the six-passenger Six-Pack, Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement.It contains every question and answer on the Coast Guard exams - all 9,000 of them alongwith an interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database, so you can take an unlimited number of practice exams. This new edition brings the book up-to-date with the Coast Guard's expanded and revised database of questions and answers, and provides 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation. Minimum System Requirements are: Windows 95 or later 200MHz or higher, 32MB of RAM, VGA Monitor, 2x CD-ROM 30MB (minimum) of free disk space, Mouse or equivalent pointing device.