Admiralty Charts

With a seemingly endless number of anchorages, nooks and crannies to explore in this region, good charts are absolutely essential for safe pilotage. Don’t skimp here. Open to the Atlantic swell and the weather accurate information is essential, you may need to know We carried a full set of Admiralty charts. For the list of charts we took see below.

Admiralty Chart List

Westabout from Largs to Dingle
2635
2725
1125
2420
2173
2254
2424

Cork and Kerry
2789
2790
2125
2495
1840
1838
2552
2184
2129
2092
2081
1765
2053
1777
2049
1410
2046

Chart Plotting
Maptech’s scanned Admiralty charts once again proved invaluable, both on the boat’s laptop and on my handheld PDA. This unit in particular proved extremely useful for close quarters navigation, especially when used in conjunction with a Bluetooth remote GPS unit.

Pilot Books

IMRAY – Cruising Cork and Kerry by Graham Swanson – Easily the best pilot for this area. Up to date, easy to follow and as useful ashore as it is afloat. A must for this area.

Irish Cruising Club – Sailing Directions South & West Coasts of Ireland.
Since its first publication in 1930 this book has been the definitive guide. Make sure you take the latest 11th edition, recently published. A must have as it covers areas outside that of the IMRAY publication.

Flight details
Aer Arann – Fly between many UK regional airports and and Cork – We used the service from Southampton www.aerarann.com

Other airlines operating to and from Cork
Ryanair
EasyJet
Jet2.com
Bmibaby
Aer Lingus
bmi

Useful Web contacts

10 Degrees West – Yacht Charter – www.yachtcharterkerry.com

QC’s Restaurant – Cahersiveen – www.qcbar.com

Cahersiveen Information – www.cahersiveen.info