Best Pilot Book(s) for Western Scotland

[gandy]

Hi,

We're planning a trip to the West Coast this summer. Not an area I know. I wondered whether forumites prefer the Imray or the Clyde Cruising Club pilots, or some other publisher's.

Ta in advance,

 

[Aja]

I support the CCC Sailing Direction ('cos I'm a member - and they're good) but I also have the Imray Directions too.

Some people (including me) feel that the Martin Lawrence (Imray) directions tend to put people off visiting some anchorages (here there be dragons). On the other hand they have a different take on the approaches/hazards/shoreside facilities.

With either - you wont go far wrong.

Donald

 

[Bat21]

They both have their merits and therefore we carry both.

If you go past Ardnamurky always rememmber at some point you have to return!!

 

[Cornishman]

Wouldn't go anywhere without an Admiralty Pilot book

 

[Aja]

True. My 1956 West Coast of Scotland Admiralty Pilot book makes anchoring my warship dead easy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Seriously, the plates showing headlands and landscapes are excellent.

Donald

 

[FWB]

This is a must read even if you never go there, An Island Odyssey by Hamish Haswell-Smith . Also get the other one, The Scottish Islands.

 

[davierobb]

cruised the west coast last year using ccc pilots and we made it back ok so I guess they must be ok.

 

[starboard]

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Wouldn't go anywhere without an Admiralty Pilot book

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designed for commanding tankers and large grey vessels!!!...not ideal reading for grubing up into a little hole surrounded by reefs with 2 meters of water below the keel!!!

Without doubt the CCC directions are second to none....would not be without them in these west coast waters.

Paul.

 

[Cornishman]

Well, if you have only the 19th century editions that's what you get, but since they revamped them all in the 1980s they cover every crook and nanny very well

 

[dunedin]

Martin Lawrence is superb

 

[contessa26]

Agreed! We carry the Tenth Edition 1958, of the West Coast of Scotland Pilot, in our bookshelf, and for fun, we love going back and reading the chapter “Outlying islands between Jura and Seil Island”, studying the minute details of shoals and rocks, and reading again about exactly where they think all the eddies and overfalls are in the Gulf of Corryvreckan…

We carry other books, as others mentioned; but like most areas of the world, we find the most fun is provided by careful studying – and reading – of a close-in scale Admiralty chart…

Best wishes

 

[cliff]

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with 2 meters of water below the keel!!!

[/ QUOTE ]Ah, so you are one of these "deep water" sailors I have heard about!!! - a whole 2 metres below the keel, wow!...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[gandy]

Cheers. It looks like the majority prefer CCC.

 

[RMA]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this. All right, it's aimed at supertankers but at least its free. Look for publication 141.

Here

 

[gandy]

Just downloaded the free doc, thanks.