Charts for N France / Cherbourg area

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Planning my summer cruise, we're hoping for a cross channel trip to Cherbourg ish then along the French coast, Channel Islands and home via Torquay, Weymouth or Poole.

I use the Admiralty folios so will invest in the Channel Islands one but they don't do the Folios for France as far as I can see. Wondering if people can recommend best charts for that area of France? (or have any spare I could buy now for non-navigation planning purposes)?

I've got Navionics for Tablet and phone, and a new Europe maps card in my Garmin chartplotter. I like having paper charts to pore over during the winter months.


Ideas or offers welcome, thank you.
 
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It's mostly rocks, so an 1894 fathoms chart will serve almost as well. You could do what we did, which was to use small scale charts to get to France, which is hard to miss, and then buy nice French charts over there. The Admiralty do a CI chart package of course.
 
dunedin said:
NV chart folios are great - and include free digital charts able to be used on multiple devices (PC, Android and IOS).
http://www.sailingbooks.co.uk/charts-and-tide-charts/france-chart-folios-NV-and-imray
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+1. I bought a set in Cherbourg last summer, for that part of the French Coast and Channel Islands. Otherwise I relied on a 25 year old chart for the cross-channel bit , it didnt indicate any rocks and Cherbourg seemed in much the same place as it's been for the past 200 years!
 
Graham

If not too late, it is worth comparing the coverage of the Admiralty and Imray chart folios for the Channel Islands (SC5604 and 2500 respectively), since they are slightly different. The Imray pack has one passage planning chart covering a larger area than the Admiralty pack but, at 1:500,000, not much use for rock avoidance.

For east of Cherbourg, I like Imray's C32 (Baie de Seine).

For the north coast of Brittany west of Ile de Brehat (the limit of SC5604) I bought a couple of SHOM charts (7151 and 7152 I think - about 1:50,000). If you wanted to get all the way to the Chenal du Four you would have to add charts 7149 and 7150. They are very good but, at about £30 each, the cost starts to add up (and for that reason, you would probably want to ignore the more detailed 1:20,000 SHOM charts that you can get).
 
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