Reeds Nautical Almanac 2011 hits the bookshelves

The 2001 Edition of Reeds Nautical Almanac is now available. This indispensable and trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco and the Azores.

Reeds Nautical Almanac 2011 continues the Almanac's tradition of year on year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea.

Includes: 700 chartlets, Harbour facilities, Tide tables and streams, 7500 waypoints, International codes and flags, Weather, Distance tables, Passage advice, Area planning charts, Rules of the road, Radio information, Communications, Safety, First Aid, Documentation and Customs - as well as a free Reeds Marina Guide.

For the first time, the 2011 edition will come with a downloadable desktop version – the digital service – free to purchasers of the Almanac. Once downloaded, all the information within the Almanac will be available without internet access, so it can be used all over the world, wherever you are – at sea or in your office.

"There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them" Sir Chay Blyth

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Get your copy now from The Online Chandlery - Just £33.99

Imray to release updated edition of North Africa by Graham Hutt

North Africa
By: RCC Pilotage Foundation

The new Edition of Imray's popular pilot guide to North Africa by Graham Hutt will be released in time for Christmas.2011

Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia including Gibraltar, Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands and Malta 

The new 4th edition of this popular pilot has been extended to take in Libya. This country is just starting to become accessible to cruising yachts, and Graham Hutt has visited it several times in recent years to collect information for visiting yachts which appears in this new edition.

Throughout the text has been updated, harbour plans revised and new photos have been added.

 

 

Peter Clarke

Chandlery Online

Admiralty Leisure Products face complete restructuring

UKHO has announced a plan to restructure its Admiralty Leisure product range which will focus its attention and investment on the two Leisure products most valued by its customers; the Admiralty Leisure folios for UK & Ireland, and the ever-popular Admiralty Easy Tide web site. UKHO will focus investment on developing coverage of Admiralty Leisure Folios for the UK coast. A new folio for the North East England will be published ready for the 2011 season, with more folios planned for 2011 to provide further coverage of UK coast. The other Admiralty Leisure products will be subject to a phased withdrawal from September.

Since the first Admiralty Leisure chart was published in the 1940s, countless leisure craft users have relied on Admiralty Leisure products for planning and navigation. The paper chart is still an irreplaceable part of the mix and the UKHO remains committed to the leisure market where it can best serve the customer and support safety at sea.

The current range of Admiralty Paper Leisure Folios for UK and Ireland include:

SC5600 - The Solent and Approaches: 12th Edition
SC5601 - Exmouth to Christchurch: 9th Edition
SC5602 - The West Country, Falmouth to Teignmouth: 9th Edition
SC5603 - Falmouth to Hartland Point, including the Isles of Scilly: 7th Edition
SC5604 - Channel Islands : 6th Edition
SC5605 - Chichester to Ramsgate and Calais to Oostende: 9th Edition
SC5606 - Thames Estuary, Ramsgate to Tower Bridge: 9th Edition
SC5607 - Thames Estuary, Essex and Suffolk Coast: 8th Edition
SC5608 - Bristol Channel: 2nd Edition
SC5609 - North West Wales including Menai Strait: 2nd Edition
SC5610 - Firth of Clyde: 3rd Edition
SC5611 - West Coast of Scotland - Mull of Kintyre to Point of Ardnamurchan: 3rd Edition
SC5612 - Northern Ireland - Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle : 1st Edition
SC5613 - Irish Sea - Eastern Part including Isle of Man : 2nd Edition
SC5614 - East Coast Orford Ness to Whitby : 3rd Edition
SC5620 - South West Wales: 2nd Edition
SC5621 - Ireland - Carlingford Lough to Waterford: 2nd Edition
SC5622 - Ireland - Waterford to Kinsale: 1st Edition
SC5623 - Ireland - Bantry Bay to Kinsale: 1st Edition

Three new chart folios are planned:

SC5615 - North East Coast of England
SC5616 - East Coast of Scotland
SC5617 - North West Coast of Scotland

The schedule for the withdrawal of the remainder of the Admiralty leisure products is:

Admiralty Leisure Editions (Excluding SC2036, SC2045, SC2656, SC2669, SC808) - 4 November 2010

Admiralty Leisure Editions SC2036, SC2045, SC2656, SC2669 & SC808 - Summer 2011

Admiralty Leisure Tough Charts - 4 November 2010

Admiralty Leisure Folios (Non UK & Ireland) - 4 November 2010

Admiralty RYA Chart Plotters - 30 December 2010

Peter Clarke

Chandlery Online

Imray release new Italian Waters chart - M16 Ligurian Sea

Imray chart M16 Ligurian Sea is a brand new chart covering the area from Monaco to the Bay of Naples.

Plans included:

San Remo
Approaches to Genoa
Golfo Marconi
Approaches to La Spezia
Viareggio
Approaches to Livorno
Livorno

New Admiralty Leisure Tough Chart- SC5913 Plymouth Sound and Rivers

New Admiralty Leisure Tough Chart- SC5913 Plymouth Sound and Rivers

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Admiralty Leisure has launched the latest in its series of ever-popular Tough Charts in the form of a brand new Tough Chart for Plymouth Sound and Rivers.

The new Tough Chart (SC5913) provides various scale coverage from Plymouth Sound to Gunnislake, including major rivers and estuaries, in the form of 10 robust and durable pages. Also included is a comprehensive index diagram detailing coverage of this product.

Designed specifically for the Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB), dingy and wet boat enthusiasts, Admiralty Tough Charts are also great for use on deck on any vessel. Admiralty Tough Charts are completely waterproof, A3 sized, spiral bound booklets containing approximately 16 charts of the specific area as well as approach plans covering popular harbours. Tough Charts aren't just designed to get wet: they positively love it!

The Tough Chart contains charted detail of Plymouth Sound Marinas and local Rivers in the area at various scales; all charts are referred to WGS84 datum. This Tough Chart, along with SC5904, Falmouth to Plymouth, SC5903, Plymouth to Bill of Portland, SC5914, Rivers and Harbours of South Devon and SC5912, Rivers and Harbours of South Cornwall, now completes Leisure Folio coverage of the South Western Coast of England. SC5913 is priced at £30.00 (UKRRP).

Admiralty Charts - designed for sailors!

Cruising Anglesey and Adjacent Waters by Ralph Morris

Cruising Anglesey and Adjoining Waters
By: Ralph Morris

Ralph Morris's guide to the island of Anglesey and coast from Liverpool to Pwllheli was first published over 20 years ago and has always been closely associated with The Northwest Venturers Yacht Club based in Beaumaris.

It is the definitive pilot to Anglesey and the Menai Strait, an area that provides fine cruising and wonderful anchorages.

This new (2009) edition of Cruising Anglesey and Adjoining Waters, the third to be published by Imray, is now in full colour. Throughout the text has been updated and the charts revised. The authors clear sailing directions are now illustrated with new photographs many of which are from the air.

The area is now also covered by Imray's new chart pack 2700 North and West Wales.

The perfect companion to Imray Charts and Admiralty Charts alike.

Imray publishes new 6th edition of Tom Cunliffe's best-selling Shell Channel Pilot

The Shell Channel Pilot
South coast of England, the North coast of France and the Channel Islands
By: Tom Cunliffe

The Shell Channel Pilot stands alone as the ultimate authority on cruising both sides of the English Channel. Ever since the 1930s, when Adlard Coles published the original version, it has been steadily upgraded and updated. The work never ceases. Under the Imray / Cunliffe house flag since 1992, it represents more than eighty years of effort.

This is the sixth (2010)Imray edition, indicating that the book is re-issued every three years in the untiring endeavour to keep it up to date. This time, the text has been organised into defined sections. Each is prefaced by passage notes which are more comprehensive than previously, lifting the work far above any simple harbour guide. Also included is advice about Channel-crossing navigation, regulations, health and paperwork on both sides of the water. Best of all remain the pilotage notes, the plans, the aerial and approach shots for harbours great and obscure, plus the author's frank remarks about shoreside facilities. The net result is unique - rigorous navigation advice to pilot you safely through the rocks, spiced with a light touch guaranteed to raise a salty chuckle on winter evenings while you plan next summer's voyaging.

As a guide and a shipmate, there is nothing like it.

The perfect companion to Imray Charts and Admiralty Charts alike.