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Jimmy Cornell
Anyone have a copy of Cornell's "Cruising Routes"? I would like to see what
he says regarding waypoints for a transatlantic route from the Northeast US to Great Britain. -- Dennis Gibbons SO/V Dark Lady CN35-207 dkgibbons at optonline dot net |
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Jimmy Cornell
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:07:21 -0400, "Dennis Gibbons"
wrote: Anyone have a copy of Cornell's "Cruising Routes"? I would like to see what he says regarding waypoints for a transatlantic route from the Northeast US to Great Britain. I have a copy and will take a look later on. I'm pretty sure that some of it depends on time of year and southern ice limits. |
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Jimmy Cornell
Look at July if you could. I believe he site waypoints off shore and mid
ocean and arrival Dennis "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:07:21 -0400, "Dennis Gibbons" wrote: Anyone have a copy of Cornell's "Cruising Routes"? I would like to see what he says regarding waypoints for a transatlantic route from the Northeast US to Great Britain. I have a copy and will take a look later on. I'm pretty sure that some of it depends on time of year and southern ice limits. |
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Jimmy Cornell
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 19:10:45 -0400, "Dennis Gibbons"
wrote: Look at July if you could. I believe he site waypoints off shore and mid ocean and arrival Dennis "Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:07:21 -0400, "Dennis Gibbons" wrote: Anyone have a copy of Cornell's "Cruising Routes"? I would like to see what he says regarding waypoints for a transatlantic route from the Northeast US to Great Britain. I have a copy and will take a look later on. I'm pretty sure that some of it depends on time of year and southern ice limits. Cornell speaks of three basic routes from New England to Northern Europe. They all use a point of departure south of Nantucket Shoals at 40-30N by 69-30W. The route into Southern GB is a great circle from there to the Lizard on the south eastern coast at 49-55N by 05-10W. There are no intermediate waypoints given but any modern GPS/Plotter will set up the great circle track line for you. Cornell specifically warns of fog and ice south of Newfoundland, even in July. The distance from Brenton Reef to Falmouth is 2802 NM. As an alternative he also talks about a northern route to the far tip of Scotland, and a southern route via the Azores. The most conservative route would be via Bermuda and the Azores, avoiding all of the ice risk and almost all fog. I have sailed to Bermuda 6 times from Newport, Rhode Island and have only seen fog on the first night out. |
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