"The ninth edition brilliantly updates this classic handbook for today's mariner ... [and] will remain relevant for many years to come."
--Journal of Advanced Military Studies "Recommended for owners of German merchant ships as well as ship owners of smaller, but high seas capable boats or for ships and boats of the German Navy and the coast guard."
--German Maritime Competence Net "This is a most extraordinary book intended for professional officers and petty officers.... There is no other book like this, and this is the one book to have at the professional level."
--Public Intelligence Blog "This book is designed to satisfy seamanship classes such as those at the U.S. Naval Academy and at Naval R.O.T.C., colleges, and serve as a useful handbook for the officers at sea in their professional practice of navigation."
--Maritime Review "I was very pleased to see this cornerstone reference updated to reflect the 2017 collisions involving USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald among the many examples and illustrations. The authors do a great job providing context, history, and using real life experiences to drive home the mandate that professional mariners know these rules cold. They can literally mean the difference between life and death at sea."
--Capt. John P. Cordle, USN (Ret.), Former Commanding Officer of USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) and USS San Jacinto (CG-56) and Navy League John Paul Jones Award Winner "In this new edition of Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road, Professor Allen and Commander Allen have once again preserved and updated the definitive analysis of the collision regulations. It continues to be the essential reference for maritime attorneys litigating collision cases."
--Alan M. Weigel, maritime attorney, Blank Rome LLP
