World Map including Trade Winds and Ocean Currents

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My retirement is not THAT far away, and the commencement of putting a dream into reality has started. One thing I'd love to have on a wall at home is a large map of the world showing both individual countries and the major trade winds and ocean currents.

I can't find one!

I can find a map of the world, easily, without the wind and currents.
I can find a large map showing the wind and currents, but the land masses are just that - Africa is just Africa with no individual countries.

I have googled, of course - but I'm hoping someone here knows exactly what I want AND knows where I can get one!

Thanks

David
 
Admiralty charts 5124 Routeing) might be useful, but scale too large ?

https://www.bookharbour.com/admiralty-chart-5124-1-routeing-chart-north-atlantic-ocean-january

Small part of SW Africa on my paper chart
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I think you might need to find an electronic map/chart and then have your local print shop output it on A1 size.
 
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I understand what you want, but I don't know if you will be able to find it.

People who want to look at political boundaries generally don't care about winds and currents, and people plotting ocean passages generally don't care about things on land. Apart from your desire for decoration (which I appreciate) I can't see a practical use for such a map so I wouldn't assume that anyone produces one.

You might need to find digital files of two separate maps that you like, combine them (or have a freelance Photoshop-jockey do so for you) and then have the result printed. This will all work out a bit more expensive than buying something off the shelf, but on the plus side you get to specify exactly what you want including whatever personalised legend, marked places significant to you, etc.

There are websites where you can locate people to do this kind of work for a fixed price. A friend of mine had some artwork for a software project done very well and quite cheaply by a chap in Brazil. Any local print-shop should be able to put the resulting file onto paper at a reasonable size for a domestic wall.

Pete
 
Prv, thanks for your comments. You're almost certainly on the money as I can't fid such a map.

And yes, it's for decoration/motivation puposes - seeing what countries are along these currents. After all, a gentleman never sails upwind (!). Good idea re combining two.

Sarabande - yes, I did look at the USA National Weather - great for the winds and currents, no so great for the countries.

Thanks all.
 
I seem to remember a similar chart I found in an old liferaft content: IIRC there were two charts (Atlantic and Indian/Pacific) with currents, winds, shipping routes (and possibly the paths of migratory birds) and indication of countries (old source chart as some States had the old colonial names Rhodesia Tanganika and the like).
I have two grab bags and that chart is inside the "offshore" one which is not on board right now, I'll have a look when I am back home. I may of course be confusing several different memories so do not expect too much :D
 
Jimmy Cornell's Ocean Atlas is pretty much that, although not as wall poster.

Or print what you like from OpenCPN + Climatology plugin:

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The US National Imagery & Mapping Agency have published Routing Charts showing winds, percentage of gales, currents, ice limits etc for each month for each of the main oceans. Adjoining countries are named but without detailed boundaries.

These are available free on the internet. E.g. North Atlantic is publication NVPUB106 and is available here:

https://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.p...msi_pub_detail&CCD_itemID=106&pubConstant=APC

Each is about 12MB, so to download the entire set is getting on for 1Gb.
 
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davidlhill said:
My retirement is not THAT far away, and the commencement of putting a dream into reality has started. One thing I'd love to have on a wall at home is a large map of the world showing both individual countries and the major trade winds and ocean currents.

I can't find one!

I can find a map of the world, easily, without the wind and currents.
I can find a large map showing the wind and currents, but the land masses are just that - Africa is just Africa with no individual countries.

I have googled, of course - but I'm hoping someone here knows exactly what I want AND knows where I can get one!

Thanks

David
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How has current unusual weather patterns, affected these charts?
Some of the 'expected' winds, seem not always being delivered on many of my trips over the last 5 years.
 
davidlhill said:
Prv, thanks for your comments. You're almost certainly on the money as I can't fid such a map.

And yes, it's for decoration/motivation puposes - seeing what countries are along these currents. After all, a gentleman never sails upwind (!). Good idea re combining two.

Sarabande - yes, I did look at the USA National Weather - great for the winds and currents, no so great for the countries.

Thanks all.
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If you achieve what you are setting out to do, kindly let us know.

If your guy thinks that there might be some follow-on business he might give you special terms.
 
davidlhill said:
My retirement is not THAT far away, and the commencement of putting a dream into reality has started. One thing I'd love to have on a wall at home is a large map of the world showing both individual countries and the major trade winds and ocean currents.

I can't find one!

I can find a map of the world, easily, without the wind and currents.
I can find a large map showing the wind and currents, but the land masses are just that - Africa is just Africa with no individual countries.

I have googled, of course - but I'm hoping someone here knows exactly what I want AND knows where I can get one!

Thanks

David
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If you find one, let me know.
I was quite taken by a world map I saw in Fowey, the shop opposite the gallery.
It didn't have IIRC, the winds and currents, but did show trade routes with distances.

If you do find anything with trade winds etc on it, it might have some out of date country names. Not sure if that's a problem to me.
 
Perhaps we could put together a forum working party ? I'd like a 'general' map of global winds and currents, too.
 
Roberto said:
I seem to remember a similar chart I found in an old liferaft content: IIRC there were two charts (Atlantic and Indian/Pacific) with currents, winds, shipping routes (and possibly the paths of migratory birds) and indication of countries (old source chart as some States had the old colonial names Rhodesia Tanganika and the like).
I have two grab bags and that chart is inside the "offshore" one which is not on board right now, I'll have a look when I am back home. I may of course be confusing several different memories so do not expect too much :D
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Just checked it, unfortunately not something that might suit your needs. :(

regards
 
Sandy said:
Would you want this to be at a set point in time, seasonal or live data?
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OK, I'll take the bait and assume you've skim read the entire thread and missed key points from my first post.

I want something to stick on the wall above my desk so that I can get a daily reminder of the soonish to be realised dream. So yes, seasonal, not live. It is not for passage planning, not for detailed planning - just a reminder of which countries are on the tradewind routes.
 
davidlhill said:
OK, I'll take the bait and assume you've skim read the entire thread and missed key points from my first post.

I want something to stick on the wall above my desk so that I can get a daily reminder of the soonish to be realised dream. So yes, seasonal, not live. It is not for passage planning, not for detailed planning - just a reminder of which countries are on the tradewind routes.
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I did read your first post, my feeble attempt at humour was that the trade winds and ocean currently are not static and that they change each season.
 
I have the same charts that Roberto remembered. They came with a book called Sea Survival - A Manual by Dougal Robertson
ISBN 0 236 31089 5 from 1975. I could try to scan them if you want.
My copy was £5.95 and it seems to be available on Amazon at a vastly inflated price.
 
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