Lady Martina - Guides & Information

Chart database

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My Paper Charts: It has been my custom, since starting sea cruising over 20 years and 6-7,000 nautical miles ago, to use the latest paper charts, corrected with Notices to Mariners.

Upon these charts, and with the use of a Yeoman, I have plotted my course manually and this technique has suited me well.

This Chart Database, detailed from the link above, lists those I keep in my capacious Broom Ocean 42 chart table, and shows their status at any moment in time. ** Last Updated 26th June 2015**

Beyond this, I have forsaken the modern expedient of GPS plotters, whose screens and viewability I have always found to be too small for my taste; just using their positioning and auto-pilot driving functions

My Computer Navigation:

Whilst sporting two fixed SatNav sets for choice (and onother hand-held one for good measure, all with common plugs and sockets for interchageability) I have also been using PC laptops for the majority of the time as well, driving a large bridge-mounted sunlight-viewable monitor with a flush-mounted mouse. My NMEA hub allows routes and waypoints to be freely interchanged between them all and the Yeoman.

My latest navigation software has been MaxSea, which program's use of multiple charts and chart windows allows the best comparison of raster and vector alternatives when in mid-passage. Often Chart Cd's will come with many foreign charts and the use of a computer allows these to be employed to good effect.

East Coast, Netherlands & Baltic (updated April 2015)

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Pilot Guides

"East Coast Pilot: Lowestoft to Ramsgate" by Jarman, Cooper and Holness (4th Edition Imray, April 2014) updates and Deben and Ore chartlets http://www.eastcoastpilot.com/index.html

"The East Coast" by Derek Bowskill (4th Edition Imray, 1998)

"North Sea Passage Pilot" by Brian Navin (Imray, 6th Edition 2013)

"Cruising Guide to the Netherlands" by Brian Navin (Imray, 5th Edition 2010)

ANWB Wateralmanak Part 1 (ANWB/VVV 2015/16) & Part 2 (ANWB/VVV 2015)

"Dutch Inland Sailing Pilot" by Henri Levison (Stamford, 1988)

"Havengids Nederland" (W H den Ouden, 1992)

"An Introduction to Cruising in The Netherlands" by Stuart Bradley (CA, )

"Through the Dutch and Belgian Canals" by Philip Bristow (Nautical Books)

"Cruising Guide to Germany & Denmark" by Brian Navin (Imray)

"IJsselmeer Harbours" by Hilary Keatinge (Barnacle Marine)

HP33 Waterstanden Stromen (Dutch Hydrographic Service)

Charts

AC1535 Approaches to Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft (Apr 2015)
AC1543 Winterton Ness to Orford Ness (Apr 2015)
AC106 Cromer to Smiths Knoll (Sept 2010)
AC2449 Dover Strait to Westerschelde (Oct 2012)
AC1610 Approaches to the Thames Estuary (Oct 2012)
AC1630 West Hinder & Outer Gabbard to Vlissingen & Scheveningen (replaces 3371)
AC1631 Goeree to Texel (replaces 2322)

SC5607 Thames Estuary, Essex & Suffolk (January 2001)
SC5606 Thames Estuary, Ramsgate to Tower Bridge (April 2001)

Dutch Hydrographic Service (Hydrografische Kaarten voor Kust en Binnenwateren)
1801 Noordzeekust - Oostende tot den Helder
1803 Westerschelde
1805 Oosterschelde, Veerse Meeren, Grevelingenmeer
1807 Zoommeer, Volkerak, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep
1809 Nieuwe Waterweg, Nieuwe en Oude Maas, Dordtsche Kil (Dordrecht)
1810 IJsselmeer met Randmeren
1811 Waddenzee West en Noordzeekust
1812 Waddenzee Oost en Noordzeekust

Nauticring Vaarkaart Nederland - Overzichtskaart

English Channel, Channel Islands & France

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"Shell Channel Pilot" by Tom Cunliffe (Imray, 2000)

"North Brittany & Channel Islands" by Peter Cumberlidge (Nautical Data)

"North France & Belgium - Cruising Companion" by Neville Featherstone (Nautical Data Ltd, 2001)

"RCC Pilotage Foundation - The Channel Islands" by Nick Heath (Imray, 2000)

Charts

SC5600 The Solent & Approaches (January 2002)
SC5604 The Channel Islands (September 2001)
SC5605 Chichester to Ramsgate, including Dover Strait (July 2001)

AC1349 Ports in Normandy (October 2002)
AC2135 Pointe de Barfleur to Pointe de la Percee (November 2001)
AC2136 Pointe de la Percee to Ouistreham (December 2002)
AC2146 Approaches to Le Havre & Antifer (June 2002)
AC2613 Cherbourg to Fecamp (June 2002)
AC2656 English Channel Central Part (July 2002)
AC2669 Channel Islands & Adjacent Coasts of France (February 2003)
AC 2451 Newhaven to Dover & Cap d'Antifer to Cap Gris Nez (March 2004)

French & Belgian Inland Waterways

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"Through the French Canals" by David Jefferson (Adlard Coles Nautical, 2006 11th Ed)

"Inland Waterways of France" by David Edwards-May (Imray, 2002 7th Ed)

"The Channel to the Med" by Derek Bowskill (Opus Books, 1995)

"Cruising French Waterways" by Hugh McKnight (Adlard Coles Nautical, 1991 2nd Ed)

"Cruising the Inland Waterways of France and Belgium" by Roger Edgar & Iain Stitt (Cruising Association, 2007 12th Ed)

"Inland Waterways of Belgium" by Jacqueline Jones (Imray, 2005)

Charts

Navicartes 1, 3, 14, 24

Waypoint database

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Greetings!

Passages in Lady Martina are made with use of routes based upon a waypoint database that has been built up and updated over some 20 years and safely cruising many thousands of nautical miles in the oceans and estuaries of Northern Europe.

Of course, all skippers are responsible for charting their own waypoints and, if too may of us used the same ones, we would collide more often :-). That said, others are welcome to consider mine (via the link above) for their passages and, when in conjunction with reading my Cruising Log, to understand more fully the choices I have made.

Now that the 2017 cruising season has been well underway, and charts for the east and south coasts of England have been updated and used, the list has been edited to make sense of the changes in harbours and navigation channels. This comes after it was extended in January to include a large section for Denmark, easily accessed through Germany via the Kiel Canaland then modified in June after some early-season corrections

There are more direct routes that could have been chosen, with many passing further inshore, but it is my preference to cruise offshore, often experiencing calmer conditions in deeper water by avoiding overfalls and certainly missing the crab pots and fishing markers which is a bonus!

May you have many Fair winds and Favourable Tides!

David Broad, Ramsgate, July 2017