Essential books to carry

Hi Airborne1.
Firstly, good luck with the new boat.
Where in the Clyde are you going to keep your boat? is it going to be a mooring or marina?
I was left a reeds almanac in the boat at point of sail, and my opinion is it is too big, heavy, and much too much information in it for someone like myself that cruises the firth of Clyde I see that there is one for the west coast out now which will have all the information I will ever need.
Like yourself my intentions are to sail to N, Ireland next season, providing I can get the problem of a loose keel on my Hummingbird 30 sorted.
Where in Scotland would you suggest departing from to sail across the shortest route?
I took my boat up the river on tuesday from Fairley to Clydebank for winter hard standing, I wouldent advice any but the most experienced to try navigating the river at night, as a lot of the channel buoys arent lit and can be very confusing, even at first glance in daylight.
Maybe we will come across each other some day.
Cheers, Eamonn.
 
Re: Do you have any books at all?

Sorry to extend this, BUT:

Could someone with the technology run a poll on whether people have any literature at all? I'm pretty sure from many questions on this forum that the poster doesn't have a current pilot book on board. OK, carrying Adlard Coles is a nostalgic gesture (it happens to acknowledge my own modest input), and Bowskill (always good for a larf) is also dated, but there are three current reference titles for the Solent and Channel ports.

You could add paper charts, but that throws the net too wide.

Would anyone be interested enough to do that for me?
Oh, to eliminate the No's from sportsboats and fishing boats can you think of an exclusion clause please?
 
The 'Good Pub Guide'.....

A sheaf of free NP109 Admiralty Home Waters Catalogues..... for UK waters passage planning and passage charts.

An old, free Admiralty Chart Catalogue...... for further and ocean waters passage planning and passage charts.

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Re: Do you have any books at all?

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Paper charts, do people actually still carry them??

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Re: Do you have any books at all?

As a biker it's probably far more fun on the bumper!

I still got mine, but honestly in the last three years have checked them time and again for no good reason. There is no situation that I have not spotted on me plotter or found from paper charts. I reckon there a bit like driving gloves, my Dad still buys me them for christmas and I still quite like them, but my air con does me fine. Then again I am UK based, that might make a difference.
 
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