Cruising Guides

[PhilipH]

Heading for the Med and looking at building the library of cruising guides. I see that there is a new Greek Heikell due in September so will wait for that. Some guides are now quite old e.g. North Africa published in 2010 (with new info on Libya .... really). So we would like to visit Morocco, Tunisia, (We have SE Spain guide) , Balearics, Corsica, Sicily, Adriatic (including visiting Venice) Greece (including Crete) and Turkey. All recommendations from active/recent cruisers will be greatly appreciated. Cheers

 

[Roberto]

Phil!


Apart from Imrays, have a look also at "777" for the eastern adriatic, it's a sort of collection of detailed chartlets for all of the coast

regards to N. as well

 

[PhilipH]

Roberto. Hope family all well. Hope we can meet up. Currently in Azores and head for Algarve August/Sept. Cheers

 

[Roberto]

Just been told that the newer "888" pilot book is better than the 777 (not a joke, who knows why they decided such titles)
cheers r

 

[vyv_cox]

Cruisers wiki can be quite useful. Unfortunately it is such a tedious process to add reports that few do it. I added some in Greece a couple of years ago but gave up after being told I was doing it wrong. Whereas the CA's Captain's Mate could not be easier and consequently enjoys new reports every day.

 

[Resolution]

Cruisers wiki can be quite useful. Unfortunately it is such a tedious process to add reports that few do it. I added some in Greece a couple of years ago but gave up after being told I was doing it wrong. Whereas the CA's Captain's Mate could not be easier and consequently enjoys new reports every day.

Another vote in favour of Captains Mate. Simple and often informative.

 

[vyv_cox]

Another vote in favour of Captains Mate. Simple and often informative.

Often?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Just been told that the newer "888" pilot book is better than the 777 (not a joke, who knows why they decided such titles)
cheers r

But "666" is probably the work of theDevil

 

[Yngmar]

The RCCPF Islas Baleares pilot is pretty good (it's the first one that is really aimed at people anchoring a lot, with useful tidbits about dinghy landing spots and shops near them). The Med Spain one was so-so. Atlantic Spain/Portugal was ok. The Corsica/North Sardinia one I can't tell yet, but it's published 2013 and has received only minor updates in the online PDF since then. Will see when we get there.

Noonsite is very useful (and we're commenting there with our own findings), and Jimbsail.info for a coarser view of an area so you can plan where to go. Navionics (if online) often has helpful comments on anchorages too, although in many different languages. Satellite imagery is very useful here to check for sandy patches in Posidonia areas Lastly, chatting to other cruisers helps (although at times they remember things wrong - as do we).

 

[Resolution]

Often?

Maybe I should have said "often more informative than the Heikell or our previous experience of that place".

 

[vyv_cox]

Maybe I should have said "often more informative than the Heikell or our previous experience of that place".

Yes, that's the beauty of it. Sometimes we visit places where the last comment was made the previous day.