Sailing Directions

SAILING DIRECTIONS are the indispensable companions to charts. A great tool for planning and assisting in navigation, Sailing Directions provide information that cannot be shown on a chart.

Sailing Direction Coverage:

Currently there are 62 Sailing Directions booklets (9 as POD) and 4 Small Craft Guides covering Canadian waters. Visit the following pages for listings and coverage diagrams.

• Atlantic Coast Sailing Directions
• Central Canada Sailing Directions
• Pacific Coast Sailing Directions
• Northern Canada Sailing Directions

SOME PRINT-ON-DEMAND SAILING DIRECTIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

No longer will Sailing Directions booklets be printed on a bulk press run. They will be printed when ordered. Print-on-demand (POD) Sailing Directions will be continuously maintained for Notices to Mariners (NtM). When you purchase a POD Sailing Directions booklet or volume it will be corrected for NtM updates. No longer will the booklet come with a long list of corrections that have to be applied by hand! We will implement a level of service where the booklets will be updated on a monthly basis.

A few booklets are already available in POD format. Look for the in the listings. Look forward to the other booklets being available in the coming months.

Sailing Directions Features:

	Oblique aerial photography of harbours and prominent features
	Plans of harbours, wharves and bridges supplemental to those carried on the charts.
	Voyage Planning : historical meteorological and ice conditions, climate, tidal streams, distance between ports tables, preferred routes, preferred tides or weather conditions to enter or leave port or to make passage, regulations.
	Safety Information: Canadian buoyage system description, cold water survival, effect of wind on exposed persons, sailing plan, distress assistance.
	Cultural and historical information: description of government, ethnicity of the population, historically significant points of interest, ecological reserves, plant and animal life.
	Port Facilities: berths, anchorage, mooring, fresh water, fuel, waste oil collection, chandlery, slips, medical.
	Navigation Objects: buoys, lights, radio aids, conspicuous objects (headlands, hills, churches, towers), calling-in-points, traffic lanes.
	Dangers: rocks, reefs, wrecks, currents, local ice conditions, local weather conditions affecting safe navigation.
	Government Agencies: Pilotage, Life Saving Stations, Customs, Search and Rescue, Coast Guard, Police.

Don't leave port without it!