Best almanac?

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What's good and bad about your almanac (and which one is it)?

I want one that does all the basics clearly and concisely. Easy to work with. Less bulky the better. Paper that doesn't disintegrate when fingers are damp.

My nearest almanac shop is 100 miles away and trying to compare them on the web is a waste of kilobytes.

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UK & Ireland, before anyone asks.

(too late to edit the original post)

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Not really too late. The edit function is normally open for an hour but Kim has turned it off temporarily, because the stinkies were fooling about with it. See the feedback forum for full details.

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I prefer MacMillians/Reeds. Always bought the big one but for this year I have purchased just the channel section. Always liked it's layout with lots of space around the tide times to lessen mistakes. As it is kept below and dry I can't comment on what happens when it gets wet.

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I alternate between the PBO one and Reeds: PBO has everything I need for 90% of the time, i.e. the tide tables and streams, while the other things in Reeds, such as south coast harbour chartlets, don't usually go out of date in two years (except Ramsgate and West Bay). I don't use the solar or stellar ephemeris to navigate and I can't recall the last time I had to look up the dipping distance of a 37m high lighthouse or the time of the end of official twilight.

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The PBO one to start the season, it works and is cheapish. First chance I get though I buy Votre Livre De Bord the French Almanac which is superb and covers The South Coast plus Belgium to Gibralter. I already have this year's (about 22 Euros or £15) and the harbour charts are now in colour as well. This has everything, even a log book (in English too), tides for many minor ports are included and harbour information including fees and charts (224 ports covered) are excellent, most have an English translation as well. It covers the Scillies but not Ireland.

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Think about if you need one. With good selection of updated charts, pilot books and tides from the Web I have not bothered for several years. I find they give next to zero info on the smaller ports of call ie Carentan/Bono/Penerf etc and who needs an Almanac to stagger into the likes of Cherbourg or Brest

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I'm hoping to use it as an alternative to a library of pilot books and a fortune's worth of detailed charts. The summer voyage is going to include the west of Scotland, all of Ireland, west & south England and Wales.

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Which ever one you decide on, check the price at Amazon. This time of year MacMillians/Reeds is about ten squid doff!

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Try "Almanac"!

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£23.07

TonyD

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if you are going to buy from amazon use the RNLI site link into amazon and they make a donation to RNLI..........every little helps........

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