Puzzling harbour symbols in 2022 Channel Almanac

[sgr143]

At the start of each harbour's entry in Reed's Channel Almanac, after the Lat. & Long. of the harbour, there's a row of varying numbers (usually 2 or 3 of each) of yellow ships' wheels (?), green thumbs-ups and blue five-pointed rosettes. I've looked all through the "symbols used", etc. pages and I can't find any information as to what they mean. Maybe I'm just suffering from some kind of age-related selective blindness... but anyway, I'm still puzzled.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Ta!
Steve

 

[LittleSister]

Ships' Wheels - Ease of Access
Green Thumbs - Facilities Available
Blue Rosettes - Ambience

Each port awarded one symbol (least), two symbols (medium) or three symbols (most) in each category.

(I'd always previously thought the ships' wheels were roses, and wondered what they had to do with ease of access! You've put me right on that, and it all becomes clearer now.)

That info is from the 5 year old Atlantic Europe Reeds Almanac I have, presumably it's common across all their almanacs.. Curiously it's not in 'Symbols and Abbreviations' in the 'Reference Data' chapter, but in the initial, introductory, part of the 'Harbours, Coasts and Tides' section of the Almanac.

 

[Boathook]

Page 26 in the channel version and or section 0.31 harbour information.
Wheel is about ease of access, thumbs facilities and rosettes ambience.
Beaten LittleSister.
Edit. Should of said beaten by LittleSister

 

[sgr143]

Page 26 in the channel version and or section 0.31 harbour information.

So it is - my eye must have skated over that about a dozen times without seeing it!
Thanks both - Steve

 

[mjcoon]

Page 26 in the channel version and or section 0.31 harbour information.
Wheel is about ease of access, thumbs facilities and rosettes ambience.
Beaten LittleSister.
Edit. Should of said beaten by LittleSister

Edit again, should have said "Should have said"... ;-) (BTW Where does this "of" come from? Seems to be catching on. What no English lessons?)

 

[alan_d]

Edit again, should have said "Should have said"... ;-) (BTW Where does this "of" come from? Seems to be catching on. What no English lessons?)

Well, you asked the question. I have assumed that when "should have" is contracted to "should've" it is misunderstood/misheard as "should of" and repeated as such.

 

[mjcoon]

Well, you asked the question. I have assumed that when "should have" is contracted to "should've" it is misunderstood/misheard as "should of" and repeated as such.

Agreed. I think it is a combination of excessive reliance on phonetics/phonics and poor diction so that th, f and v all sound the same as in "youf". The fact that "should of" makes no grammatical sense is irrelevant if no-one knows any grammar...

 

[Boathook]

Edit again, should have said "Should have said"... ;-) (BTW Where does this "of" come from? Seems to be catching on. What no English lessons?)

Somewhat guilty, but I was trying a quick edit whilst I had Internet.

 

[sgr143]

I am quite a stickler for correct grammar and spelling; and even more so, for clarity of expression. It comes from natural inclination and 40+ years of writing academic scientific papers with students of degrees (ahem) of literacy and various linguistic backgrounds. Even so, I have to leave the room when my cherished final drafts are given over to my wife for a final look-over; she takes orthographical precision to a level or two above my humble aspirations.

My most characteristic literary tic is excessive use of semicolons; on proof-reading I force myself to take half of them out.
Actually, no...
My most characteristic literary tic is excessive use of semicolons. On proof-reading I force myself to take half of them out.

Steve
(however - in all such things, I try to bear in mind the wise words of Matthew 7:1-3. Being thoroughly irreligious, I had to check the exact reference, the quote being dimly remembered from school R.E. )