Where can I get waypoints?

[Guest]

Planning a trip to Calais at the end of October and I wondered if anyone knows where I can obtain a list of the waypoints along route from Harwich via Ramgate to Calais. It would save me a lot of typing if I could cut and paste them into my GPS.

Many thanks

Andy Coggin.

 

[hlb]

hmm Way points available with most almanac's But I see no use in using them. Far easier to use your own. If this is problem to you. I suggest you stay at home.

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Haydn

 

[Guest]

Are you suggesting this because they are potentially unreliable?

Do you think I should take them from the chart or did you mean don't go anywhere unless you've got a chartplotter?

Andy.

 

[tome]

Ponder this then

We all use the same waypoints, what's likely to happen?

GPS assisted collision as we all converge on exactly the same point. Best get your own from the chart, then there's a chance yours will at least differ slightly from mine.

Bon Voyage
Tom

 

[hlb]

No. it's just easier to put a posiition in to the chart/ plotter whatever then folow it.. never asean any use in following ither folkes charts.

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Haydn

 

[DepSol]

Take them from a chart and use your own. I found that using the purple diamonds whilst going from Dielete to Granville took me thru the safest route and quickest except for two waypoints of my own.

Dom

I am boating again ;-)

 

[byron]

Work your own waypoints out from a chart, you may as well because even if taken from an Almanac you can't reply on them so they need confirming anyway.

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[stewart]

Discounts

I too have tried to find cheap waypoints on the web but have so far failed. The best price I could come up with was £50 for 4 which seems expensive. Maybe if we all get together and buy a job lot of waypoints (maybe ex-demo ones?) we could get a discount.

Or just use the f***ing plotter and click where you want to go it's easy!!!!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the comments.

 

[Guest]

I left one lying around somewhere mid channel in August. We changed our destination, so it's brand new and unused. You're welcome to it, if you can find it.

 

[Guest]

Not very helpful, were they?

Peter Cumberlidge has written two books which might be useful: The North Sea Waypoint Directory, and the Channel Waypoint Directory (or something like that...he may actually have done two channel ones - south coast of England, and north coast of France - not entirely sure). Anyway, they're about £20 a pop, published by Allard Coles Nautical, and they're jolly good...

...BUT...

...always check and double check against your up-to-date charts, and then check and recheck when you put them into your GPS.

Good luck.

 

[toobaz]

Plot your own course..................and the way-point will come!

Baz

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the information, its all I was after really!

It will save me a whole bunch of time if I can select the waypoints from a book and then check them against the chart.



Cheers

Andy Coggin.

 

[pistonbroke]

What are you going to do with all the time that you save by entering waypoints from a book.

Might I suggest using it to learn how to navigate using a chart & compass, just in case the yanks turn the system off!

 

[Guest]

And who's to say that he can't already navigate using a chart and compass? Don't assume that just because someone wants to do things the easy way, that they can't do it any other way.

 

[tome]

St Masaccio, protector of the feeble minded

What's wrong with everyone today? Must have been some weekend - get yourself a hair of the dog and lighten up!