Pilot recommendations for the Ionian and Greece & Charts too

[Marsupial]

I Agree, my test of any pilot book is to study what it tells me about a place I know very well - most don't pass muster, but in Greece the Admiral is the best so far but by no means a bible.

 

[GTom]

Which electrinic chart is recommended nowadays? Navionics has a quite good deal for the entire Med.

 

[vyv_cox]

Which electrinic chart is recommended nowadays? Navionics has a quite good deal for the entire Med.

I use Navionics on the plotter and have the HD version on a tablet. Quite OK but the cartography for Greece is far from total, so in some places they guess! Shallows often shown where they do not exist, fortunately very few instances of the opposite, although there are a few 'uncharted' rocks.

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Eagle Ray every time

I now think it's his son doing the editing of the book, also the pages were laminated and now not so .

 

[NOHOH]

The Italian 777 pilots are very good......and they are in the process of translating them into English. The Sicily/Malta pilot in english is due to be published any day now......and volumes covering the Greek Ionian........and Greek Aegean will follow in due course....but if you understand Italian....you don`t have to wait

 

[GTom]

I use Navionics on the plotter and have the HD version on a tablet. Quite OK but the cartography for Greece is far from total, so in some places they guess! Shallows often shown where they do not exist, fortunately very few instances of the opposite, although there are a few 'uncharted' rocks.

Thanks! I'll definitely fetch the HD app, not sure about the plotter, I might want to replace the whole thing (10+years old now...).

 

[TonyMS]

We have all three, and have found Davie Nairn's Ionian pilot especially useful for finding out-of-the-way ports and anchorages. If I had to economise, I'd go for that plus Navionics charts.

TonyMS
Razzmatazz

 

[Yngmar]

Which electrinic chart is recommended nowadays? Navionics has a quite good deal for the entire Med.

Navionics on a phone/tablet is pretty good and excellent value. Had one spot where the soundings were way off, otherwise good, and the now integrated ActiveCaptain comments are useful. We also use Navily for reviews of anchorages/harbours.

The C-Map charts are ignoring entire areas where yachts would like to go but ships do not, so the detail in many popular cruising areas is far too low to be useful. Same for their attempt at competing with Navionics on a phone, called Embark (plus their app is pretty wobbly so far). I hope they keep improving though, as monopolies are not good for us.

Then we have the standard Rod Heikell Greek Waters Pilot book, which does the job, at least when used together with the above tools.

 

[KellysEye]

Rod Heikell and we used Imray charts