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I have bought a boat at Ardfern and will be sailing back to the east coat probably by Caledonian canal. Before I begin the journey home I want to spend a month or so exploring North and west of Crinnan and if weather permits North Uist. I did sail the west last year on borrowed charts but they are unavailable this time. Would like to buy charts at reasonable price. Sailing around 7th July.

Thanks.

Leisure portfolio covers up to the Shiants/ Harris. Pretty cost effective.

Thanks for that option Manavier. Best pilots on anchorages?

Thanks.

CCC are straightforward - Martin Lawrence will try to put you off!

Kintail wrote:Best pilots on anchorages?

The new CCC pilots have combined Lawrence's info and pictures with the traditional CCC style and are absolutely excellent.

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Might be worth considering the Antares ultra large scale charts for anchorages - not bad at £11

Storyline wrote:Might be worth considering the Antares ultra large scale charts for anchorages - not bad at £11

Antares charts are great for pilotage, however they are not paper charts, they are installed on a laptop or tablet, they cover only the tricky bits of certain anchorages and they need to be installed with a general chart package such as cpn or MemoryMap to operate. For what Kintail wants, I would second the Admiralty leisure packs, although he will need two of them (Kintyre to Ardnamurchan and Ardnamurchan to Cape Wrath) to cover the area from Crinan to North Uist. He could also try chartsales.co.uk who sell second-hand and out-of-date charts, which are adaquate for day-time navigation in this area. Some of us (including ahen, me) have fertiliser bags of old charts that we no longer weigh down our vessels with, now that we have bought the leisure packs, and would be prepared to spare a few if handover could be arranged.