Macmillan Reeds dumb?

[PhilipH]

So, I collected the looseleaf inserts from the chart shop and SWMBO just settled down to replace last year's inserts, but the bleeding holes don't line up with the ring binder. Ths bustards must have changed the binder or the printer has put the holes in wrong place - is this dumb or what?

 

[Pye_End]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

Just looked at mine as well!

What next?

 

[Plan_B]

If you go on to the Reeds Almanac site Philip, you will see that a, they changed the binders after 2005 and b, it seems they will exchange your old binder for you.

Haven't tried it myself - but thats what it says - its on the almanac updates site.

DD

 

[Pye_End]

This one to make it easy:

Reeds

Thanks Plan_B, was just contemplating how to go to plan B!

 

[Stemar]

£8.49?!!!!!!!!

And I have to prove I own an old one!

For a binder so I can put their bits in?

No chance

Who else does an almanac?

 

[Oen]

...perhaps someone could ask them why the whole bl**dy thing is effectively in local winter time, too! Truly nuts!

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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I bet they use those silly knots instead of the much more sensible miles per hour too.

And what is all this left right port starboard nonsense.

 

[Csail]

And why do i have to buy the whole thing when i only need the sw area??

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Was goimg to get a looseleaf swap for the vast brick bro in law gave me for Christmas. Not so sure now.

 

[awol]

It's not all bad. They cunningly stack the front of tome with pages and pages of ads so that the important bits are protected when the wave lands on the chart table. Wish it was A4 so that the home printed corrections would fit without trimming and then it could have been standard 4-hole. But as Santa brought me the new 3 hole binder last year, I will be dischuffed if they change again.

 

[chinita]

and.........unless you handle it like the Dead Sea Scrolls, every time you turn a page the paper rips between the hole and the edge!

 

[Oen]

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Come on, doggy! One is left having to make time corrections left, right, and centre, throughout the cruising season. I run my boat in Z time, as I run my professional navigating life, and really can't see why the almanac is presented in such an unhelpful way.

Regarding ripping pages, I buy a loose leaf and laminate the pages relevant to my local cruising area, and have them in a ring binder. I then have a bound copy for when I'm 'out of area'. This system works really well, nothing gets worn, and I can use markers on the laminated pages; on the down-side, it's costly. I'm really surprised that charter boats, in particular, don't follow this method.

 

[LadyInBed]

For anyone on the south coast try Bloc Marine
In French and English with French coastal charts.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

I thought you were complaining because it was all in zulu, do they correct the tide tables to BST? I am confused.

It is a while since I have used the reeds tide tables due to only buying the tome every 4 years or so, I print off tide table for standard ports from Belfield and insert them. Or from the last 2 seasons I have had tides on the plotter which really makes life easier, I am satisfied with navionics accuracy. In fact it leads to a separate question I will post in a while.