Pilotage around - Cap De La Hague

[Solent sailer]

Hello all

I read this somewhere but haven't been able to find any more information or find any charts with it marked on, it looks like a useful shortcut but i would like some more info before trying it!
it has been suggested that it was mentioned in - Malcolm Robson French Pilot Volume 1 Omonville to Treguier but I am reluctant to buy a 1979 pilot book just for that and things may well have changed in the last 40 years!

 

[guernseyman]

Don't worry, Normandy rocks don't move around much in just 40 years.

The book is a good buy, and gives full details of La Haize du Raz channel, good enough to work out waypoints.

 

[Daydream believer]

Try this

 

[VicS]

Hello all

I read this somewhere but haven't been able to find any more information or find any charts with it marked on, it looks like a useful shortcut but i would like some more info before trying it!
it has been suggested that it was mentioned in - Malcolm Robson French Pilot Volume 1 Omonville to Treguier but I am reluctant to buy a 1979 pilot book just for that and things may well have changed in the last 40 years!

Yes we tried it once , but going the other way. Unfortunately one of the marks had been changed so we chicken out but I think we had probably got all the way through before we turned back.

We later discovered that a guest on board had in fact brought a more up to date chart that showed the change! This of course in the days when satellite navigation and GPS were pure science fiction and much enjoyment came from reading a paper chart, looking for buoys and posts etc, following transits and such like , but I guess these days you put the waypoints into a plotter a link it to the autopilot and just admire the scenery as it passes.

I have some info somewhere but it is pretty dated. If I can find it I'll post it

BTW The trip around Alderney inside most of the dangerous rocks described in Robsons CI pilot is an interesting trip on a fine calm day

 

[Muddy32]

Find and buy Robson pilots: They are the original and still the best. I helped wa back and still use mine, regularly, often giving the crew some "moments"

Try doing the North bound trip with the tide, - really get the heart pumping!!