THE UKHO UNVEILS THE FUTURE OF NAVIGATION WITH THE LAUNCH OF ADMIRALTY E-NAVIGATOR

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has launched Admiralty e- Navigator, the UKHO's new integrated digital catalogue, product viewer and passage planning tool; which aims to make every stage of navigation and fleet management smarter, simpler and safer.

Admiralty e-Navigator organises, updates, and brings together all of the paper and digital information needed to plan safe voyages and simplify essential tasks. Whether on the bridge or in the office, e-Navigator will not only give access to a wealth of information, it will organise, maintain, and display all of that data, so bridge and office-based teams have instant access to all the navigational information they need, whenever they need it and wherever they are in the world.

Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of the UKHO, says "Maritime navigation is undergoing a fundamental shift, from paper to digital, from protective to proactive navigation. It is moving beyond the basic avoidance of risk towards the International Maritime Organization's vision of e-navigation, which will deliver enhanced services to the mariner. The UKHO is at the forefront of bringing that vision to life. Admiralty e-Navigator will provide seafarers with not just navigational data, but intelligence which significantly improves their ability to sail safely and efficiently."

Using e-Navigator, the mariner can quickly plot a route and identify the most appropriate products needed to navigate that route safely and compliantly. It compares the products required with what the ship currently holds, and allows new products to be ordered if needed. New products can be accessed instantly and, if appropriate, transferred to the front of bridge ECDIS for the execution of the voyage.

New Admiralty Leisure Tough Chart- SC5913 Plymouth Sound and Rivers

New Admiralty Leisure Tough Chart- SC5913 Plymouth Sound and Rivers

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Admiralty Leisure has launched the latest in its series of ever-popular Tough Charts in the form of a brand new Tough Chart for Plymouth Sound and Rivers.

The new Tough Chart (SC5913) provides various scale coverage from Plymouth Sound to Gunnislake, including major rivers and estuaries, in the form of 10 robust and durable pages. Also included is a comprehensive index diagram detailing coverage of this product.

Designed specifically for the Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB), dingy and wet boat enthusiasts, Admiralty Tough Charts are also great for use on deck on any vessel. Admiralty Tough Charts are completely waterproof, A3 sized, spiral bound booklets containing approximately 16 charts of the specific area as well as approach plans covering popular harbours. Tough Charts aren't just designed to get wet: they positively love it!

The Tough Chart contains charted detail of Plymouth Sound Marinas and local Rivers in the area at various scales; all charts are referred to WGS84 datum. This Tough Chart, along with SC5904, Falmouth to Plymouth, SC5903, Plymouth to Bill of Portland, SC5914, Rivers and Harbours of South Devon and SC5912, Rivers and Harbours of South Cornwall, now completes Leisure Folio coverage of the South Western Coast of England. SC5913 is priced at £30.00 (UKRRP).

Admiralty Charts - designed for sailors!

Imray publishes new 6th edition of Tom Cunliffe's best-selling Shell Channel Pilot

The Shell Channel Pilot
South coast of England, the North coast of France and the Channel Islands
By: Tom Cunliffe

The Shell Channel Pilot stands alone as the ultimate authority on cruising both sides of the English Channel. Ever since the 1930s, when Adlard Coles published the original version, it has been steadily upgraded and updated. The work never ceases. Under the Imray / Cunliffe house flag since 1992, it represents more than eighty years of effort.

This is the sixth (2010)Imray edition, indicating that the book is re-issued every three years in the untiring endeavour to keep it up to date. This time, the text has been organised into defined sections. Each is prefaced by passage notes which are more comprehensive than previously, lifting the work far above any simple harbour guide. Also included is advice about Channel-crossing navigation, regulations, health and paperwork on both sides of the water. Best of all remain the pilotage notes, the plans, the aerial and approach shots for harbours great and obscure, plus the author's frank remarks about shoreside facilities. The net result is unique - rigorous navigation advice to pilot you safely through the rocks, spiced with a light touch guaranteed to raise a salty chuckle on winter evenings while you plan next summer's voyaging.

As a guide and a shipmate, there is nothing like it.

The perfect companion to Imray Charts and Admiralty Charts alike.

Imray release extensively revised Chart C42 covering Bay of Biscay

Imray have extensively revised Imray Chart C42; covering the Bay of Biscay.

Chart C42 has been extensively reschemed and rescaled on this edition. Chart coverage, which previously extended from La Gironde to Arcachon, now extends from La Rochelle to the northern Spanish ports of Bilbao and Santander.

Plans included: •Approach to Arcachon •Capbreton •Rada de Higuer •Getaria •Zumaia •Abra de Bilbao •Santoña •Santander. Also includes a plan of La Gironde and La Garonne on the reverse of the chart.

The full range of Imray Charts are available from chartroom-online.com

Imray publish new Adriatic chart - M30

Imray chart M30 Ionian and Southern Adriatic Sea is a brand new chart covering the area from East Sicily and the Strait of Messina, the toe and heel of Italy to Corfu and north to Dubrovnik.

This important passage chart links M23 Adriatic Sea with the Imray-Tetra charts for Greece. The first of a new series on Italy.

The next new charts in this series will cover the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas and will be published early in 2010.