Latest News

Latest News

June 2013

  • Graham Hutt has sent us this report which is relevant for users of pilots for Atlantic Spain & Portugal, Mediterranean Spain -Costas del Sol & Blanca and North Africa

    • GIBRALTAR
      Marina Bay is currently being prepared to accommodate a huge 7 deck cruise liner which will be a luxury hotel taking up the entire S side of the marina between Marina Bay and Ocean Village. 
      The ship will be a permanent fixture, being sunk once in position alongside the casino. Pile driving and other works are taking place leaving the water very polluted. 
      Although the marina staff say no disruption is expected, (!) yachts should consider using the adjacent Marina Alcaidesa in La Linea, 1 mile  to the North, or try Queensway Quay. 
      (calling channel 71). Disruption is likely to continue for some months. 

May 2013

  • New Supplements available for download from the Imray website

  • Logs from the RCC journal 'Roving Commisions' now available for download from this site

    • The logs are indexed by area and access to them is via icons on each map page or from the right hand menu

    At present only Logs from the latest edition of Roving Commissions are available but earlier ones will be added to form an archive of accounts of cruises to add to the more formal pilotage information provided by the RCCPF 

     

    April 2013

    • E-book versions of ATLANTIC CROSSING GUIDE now available from Bloomsbury in suitable formats for different e-readers :
      • Kindle
      • Kobo
      • iBooks (can be downloaded from the iBook store)

    • New Edition of Roving Commissions is now available

    • News from Imrays

    After nearly 30 years Mrs E.N.Wilson has retired as a director. We’re pleased to announce that Pip Wilson has been appointed to take her place on the board and although she will have additional duties in the office, her role involving sales and publicity will be unchanged. 

    Pip’s email address is   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

    March 2013

    Work led by Kitty van Hagen is starting on a completely new edition of this guide. She has an interesting blog at http://blog.mailasail.com/duet

    February 2013

    January  2013

    December 2012

    September 2012

    August 2012

    • New Supplement 1 available for

     Atlantic Islands (Fifth Edition 2011) by Anne Hammick

    15 pages of detailed updates with numerous new illustrations.

    June 2012

    • New Edition 

      South Biscay 7th Edition by Steve Pickard

    • New Supplement  1 available for

       Norway (Second Edition 2010)

      18 pages of detailed updates with numerous new illustrations.
       

    April 2012

    • Further Corrections to Waypoints for North Brittany

      Waypoints should now read :

      58   E Plateau des Jaunes     48° 38,02N    02° 33.68'W 

      97    Camaret 1                        48° 17.44N    04° 36.08'W

      98    Camaret                           48° 16.92N    04° 35.19'W

      99    W Plateau des Jaunes   48° 37,16N    02° 36.10'W

    • New Supplements available for

        Atlantic Spain and Portugal (6th Edition 2010) by M Walker and H Buchanan

      and 

      Atlantic France (1st Edition 2010) by Jeremy Parkinson

      Numerous changes and updates included.

    • New Publication

      The Black Sea by David Read Barker and Lisa Borre

      This is a fully illustrated printed pilot which replaces the temporary text only version on the website.

    • New Edition

      Mediterranean Spain - Costas del Azahar, Dorada and Brava   6th Edition

    • Arctic and Northern Waters

      Following reports of difficulty downloading some of the component pdf files there are now two ways of accessing this e-pilot.  The links from the world map are unchanged.  The link to Arctic and Northern Waters via the Publications table has been changed to use text based versions of the caution and table of contents.  These work better and faster on iPads and have clickable links to all the component files of the e-pilot.

    • RCCPF on Amazon Kindle

      We are planning to make some RCCPF publications available for download in electronic form via the Amazon Kindle system.  The first one will be the notes to the Fiji Lau Group by David Mitchell which is now available in an improved form with an active Table of Contents.  it can be downloaded from the Amazon Kindle website.

    • Demise of the Forum

      Due to lack of interest and activity we have closed the Forum section of this website.  There are much more active sites for cruising yachtsmen such as Noonsite and little point in continuing with an unused competitor.

    • Roving Commissions 52 Published

      An anthology of RCC members' cruises in 2011       EDITOR: JUDY LOMAX

     

    February 2012

    • RCCPF Latest news now on twitter

    As a more efficient way of keeping up to date with changes to the Pilotage Foundation website we have set up a Twitter account

    Click this link to receive updates on twitter     Follow @RCCPFWeb

    Both supplements include significant changes.

     

    Supplement No 4 includes new information about Roscoff and L'Aber Wrach

    There is a new Marina opening this year at Roscoff and we would be particularly grateful for any feedback about the new facilities.

    This guide was written by David Mitchell following his explorations there in 2010 and is available as a pdf file linked to PPG P3

    The Guide is also available as a Kindle file for use on the Amazon Kindle devices or the free Kindle reader software on PC, Mac, iPad and Android

    We would be interested to hear users opinion of this format for our publications

    • Minor corrections to the distance tables in Passage Planning Guides U5 & U6

    • New look for the website

    As you may have noticed we have added a picture to the website header and made some other changes which we hope are improvements. We would welcome any comments or suggestions for other changes via the feedback page.

    January 2012

    Supplement No 1 for North Africa

    Published with changes to Queensway Quay in Gibraltar, Larache, Rabat, Essaouira, Agadir and Saidia in Morcco.

    "Although there is a lot of political activity across North
    Africa, nothing has been reported to indicate it is not a safe
    place to travel, except in Libya. I have been visiting Tunisia
    and Morocco throughout the year and found the only
    difference to be a total lack of foreigners visiting."

    Cornell’s Ocean Atlas: Pilot charts for all oceans of the world

    Jimmy and Ivan Cornell have recently published a new atlas based on based on the most recent weather data gathered by meteorological satellites over the last 20 years. There is also a link to their site on the Links, Blogs and Logs page

    Atlantic Islands New 5th Edition

    This edition contains all the updates that have accumulated since 2004 as well as new material from visits between 2009 and 2011. Facilities for yachts have improved significantly during recent years and the increased extent of this edition has allowed the author to include full details of new yacht harbours and proposed developments. All the plans have been updated and there are many new photographs throughout the work.

     

    Supplement No 2 for Islas Baleares

    Changes to information for Cala Fornells, Puerto de Soller, Puerto de Cala Figuera & Cabrera Island on Mallorca and Marina Mahon on Menorca

    November 2011

    Mid Season Update for Norway  and update to Passage Planning Guide Route U5  

    Changed regulations now make it possible to leave yachts in Norway for longer periods

    Forum activated on the website. We hope that this will be useful for discussion and comments on the website and all aspects of the Pilotage Foundation activities and publications. It should supplement the existing system for providing feedback. Initially this has only one section but if there is sufficient interest it is possible to add subsections covering particular topics such as cruising areas. In order to post messages to the forum you need to register but this is a simple process and will not open your email to spam.

    We have now put a series of discussion threads on the forum taken from recent requests for information to the RCCPF and Nick Coleman's responses. These should give an idea of the potential of the forum and I hope they will encourage its use.

    Basic instructions for using the forum are now in a thread on the forum itself and as a separate article on the Forum menu

     

    September 2011

    Pacific Crossing Guide       Reprinted with revision to the section on the Panama Canal
     
    A Yachting Pilot for Crete   New pilot for Crete by Tony & Tessa Cross available for download