Reeds Almanac - Nautical or Western?

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Is it too early for the first Christmas shopping query of the season? I'm planning to buy a 2018 Almanac. In terms of coverage the Reeds Western Almanac is more than enough - my only doubt is whether it contains all the introductory information that's in the full Reeds Nautical Almanac?

I haven't seen one in the flesh, so does anyone happen to know if the reference info at the beginning is abridged/reduced in the Western almanac?

Thanks!

 

[lpdsn]

I haven't seen one in the flesh, so does anyone happen to know if the reference info at the beginning is abridged/reduced in the Western almanac?

It is, or rather was when I last bought one in 2013. In fact it is rather childishly abridged, such as the map of coastguard transmitters having the ones outside the area deleted. They must've incurred extra costs to do it and manage separate versions.

Also the wire wound binder is cheap and tacky and you'll start to lose pages if it's heavily used.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Agreed reference the editing of the reference data, the channel almanac looses at least one of the tidal charts when compared with the coverage of the same areas included in the full one.

 

[nemodreams]

I get the western every year. The ringbinding is useful - as my first job is to rip out all the advert pages. They are rather good at placing nearly all ads back to back.
I have trained the Nephew to make this my standard present - so I never buy it. Its ok - I am used to sorting tides from it - but must admit I am more likely these days to use the tablet or navionics for local anchoring etc - I get a little tired of Ilfracombe and Swansea being a sec port to Milford when wanting HW/LW heights !

 

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Thanks for that. I'm tempted by the Western because it would open flat and be less unwieldy, but I want the Almanac partly for the reference info - and if that's not complete in the Western version then I'd probably be better with the full Monty.

Cheers!

 

[adamlang]

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http://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/html/investor/i_benefits.asp