East Coast Pilot - new edition now available

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Just in case you haven't had an email, the new version is now available from Imray. I find it invaluable (and no I'm not connected!) so my old dog eared edition is being retired as soon as the new one arrives.

Surprised one of the authors hasn't mentioned the new edition on the forum - but then maybe that's advertising and not allowed. However like Crossing the Thames Estuary (new edition also available) it's less of a product than a public service to the east coast so take a look on the Imray site.
 
Have just ordered a new copy. My old one can come home and new one can live on boat and maybe I will need to bother you chaps less in future:)

Operation went well I think, bit sore but I have had worse. Thought maybe I could manage a sail to Southwold, then looked at the forecast...

Steve
 
sailorman said:
Hi Steve how did it go today, been keeping an eye out for you :encouragement:
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Thanks for asking. Moorfields were superb, as they so often are. Your theatre was superb. Second floor next to McKeller ward, was that one of yours?

The op was to remove an artificial cornea (keratoprosthesis) I had fitted in August, the KPro worked perfectly but my retina died as a result of the surgery. I was warned this could happen but disappointing all the same. So this procedure was just to make the now useless eye comfortable. Not comfortable at the moment but will be soon I am sure.

Wow, how's that for thread drift!
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Sorry to hear about the outcome of your previous op. Hope the comfort promised by the new one kicks in soon for you.

(I spent a sizeable chunk of my childhood in Moorfields, and while I too ended up with a useless eye (fortunately the other was OK) I still have strangely fond memories of the place.)

And as the tide turns and drifts the thread back nearer where it started. . . I doubt I will rush out and buy a copy of the new edition, but I will mention it to Santa and the Birthday Fairy! :)
 
A truly first rate and invaluable publication. Thanks for the heads up - will buy my new copy pronto.

Shortly after the first edition was published I had an amusing encounter with Dick. A chum and I were ashore at West Mersea, and I wanted to show him the Maurice Griffiths bench on the lawn at the WMYC. This entailed asking the couple on it to move slightly so we could see the inscription - they were Dick & Angela Holness. We got talking, and Dick asked if I knew Garth Cooper. I said no, but I knew his boat, and wasn't he one of the authors of the brilliant new East Coast Pilot? With a slight smile Dick explained he was also one of the co-authors.
 
Essex Lad said:
Usual high standard? We rather hoped we had improved upon that high standard! But never mind, high is good.
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A Quality Guru once told me that the only way you can have a high standard is to hoist it up a tall flagpole, what I should have said is that the 4th Edition exceeds the standard by far :)

I will say that ECP rarely leaves my Chart Table.....

Boz
 
Oh for heavens sake. More ruddy expense. I don't know, why can't things stay the same for five minutes?

If people would just stop moving stuff around and somebody would put a stop to coastal erosion, long shore drift and all that nonsense, we wouldn't have to keep buying new pilot books all the time

Honestly, it's enough to make a poor impoverished sailor weep in his beer, it really is

(memo to self, check whether Marinestore Burnham has a copy otherwise order on t'intetweb)
 
Erbas said:
Oh for heavens sake. More ruddy expense. I don't know, why can't things stay the same for five minutes?

If people would just stop moving stuff around and somebody would put a stop to coastal erosion, long shore drift and all that nonsense, we wouldn't have to keep buying new pilot books all the time

Honestly, it's enough to make a poor impoverished sailor weep in his beer, it really is

(memo to self, check whether Marinestore Burnham has a copy otherwise order on t'intetweb)
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Marinestore Maldon have the new edition, I bought a copy :)
I like the little arrows to show where to go, clever, simple, innovation.
 
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