Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Plastimo Iris 50 Compass - Simply the Best!
The Plastimo Iris 50 compass is clear evidence that a sturdy marine compass no longer needs to look austere. It offers:
• Good protection against hard knocks: the smooth finish feels soft in your hand, and it will not slip, even if it is wet.
• Outstanding legibility of the card, with one-degree graduations:
• No parallax error: a prism projects the reading of the bearing to infinity. This also contributes to a more comfortable operation, as you do not need to alternate close-reading to read the card and infinite-reading to take bearings.
• Optimum conditions to take bearings: thanks to the superb card stability and the wide 20° field of view, which will accommodate the roughest sea conditions.
• Most accurate bearing: the pivot and very hard stone are a guarantee of long life and shock resistance of your compass.
• Soft bottom cell: engineered using ultra-sonic welding, it acts like an expansion diaphragm, preventing the formation of bubbles and leaks.
• Built-in photoluminescent lighting: so it's completely maintenance-free, impervious to corrosion, and operates without batteries or radio-active tritium.
• Course reading from above the compass: you can read your compass like a standard compass, with no need to look through the prism.
Although the Iris 50 has a UK RRP of £57.40 (£47.83 ex vat) lower prices can be found online.
Click here to buy your Plastimo Iris 50 Compass from Chandlery Online now - Plastimo Iris 50
Monday, 18 October 2010
Imray to release new Atlantic France Pilot Guide for Christmas
Atlantic France
North Biscay to the Spanish border
By: RCC Pilotage Foundation
'North Biscay' has been renamed Atlantic France to reflect the extended coverage to the Spanish border.
Jeremy Parkinson has revisited the West coast of France and, from his research over the past two years has produced this new renamed edition. Throughout, the harbour plans have been revised and in many case improved. In particular, the coverage of Brest now includes the new Marina du Chateau, large scale plans of the marinas at Lorient have been added and plans are provided of the small harbours in the Gironde.
At the north end the Brittany harbour of L'Aberwrac'h, the key to entering the Chenal du Four, is now included and in the south Arcachon, Capbreton, Bayonne, St Jean de Luz and the Rada de Higuer up to the Spanish border are included.
Many of the photographs are new and at the end of 2009 Patrick Roach was commissioned to produce a new set of aerial photos and amongst these is unique coverage of Brest.
Atlantic France is the authoratitive cruising companion for this long and varied coastline and its publication will be welcomed by both first time visitors and old West coast of France hands.
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.
Imray release The Cruising Almanac 2011
The Cruising Almanac 2011
Imray have now released to new 2011 edition of their popular Cruising Almanac.
For 2011 The Cruising Almanac has been redesigned as an annual publication.
Compiled by The Cruising Association and Imray, it covers Northwest Europe from the Shetlands to Gibraltar and West Ireland to the Baltic. In this edition the fully revised and corrected text, includes an improved introduction with 22 plans which have been redawn to show major changes, three additional plans, and details of five new marinas. The section on the Approaches to the Baltic has been carefully overhauled.
The Cruising Almanac 2011 comes with 2011 tide tables with data on 47 standard ports.These are in their own section at the end of the book
Saturday, 16 October 2010
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
Friday, 12 March 2010
Shell Channel Pilot by Tom Cunliffe (6th Edition)
The Shell Channel Pilot
By: Tom CunliffeSouth coast of England, the North coast of France and the Channel Islands
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 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.
A4. Hardback, full colour plans & photographs throughout.
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