The new 2009 edition of the IOM Sailing Directions is now available direct from the MS&CC as well as many chandlers and bookshops around the Irish sea. The new edition includes:

Background

For many years yachtsmen and cruising sailors around the Irish Sea, as well as further a field, have used a simple booklet to ensure their safe passage to, from and around the Isle of Man. We may be used to colourful maps when we tour Ireland or look for hotels in scotland today, but sailors used a simple, hand-drawn booklet to navigate the Irish Sea.The new “Isle of Man Sailing Directions, Tidal Streams and Anchorages”, has been transformed by the Manx Sailing and Cruising club, through the courtesy of Pelagos Yachts of Ramsey and Xerox IOM (2009 edition), from a simple black and white hand-drawn edition to a full colour book with spectacular aerial photographs of every harbour in the island.

The Directions celebrate what island sailors, both recreational and working, have always known – the Isle of Man is great place for coastal sailing with some wonderful harbours and anchorages. The revision, re-publication and update of the Directions serves to promote sailing and boating on the island, alongside continuing improvements, such as those at Douglas and Peel, bringing welcome visitors and increased tourism.

For the Corrections Sheet for the Updated March 2009 Sailing Directions (issued 14th April 2009)

Click Here

For the Corrections Sheet for old edition of the Sailing Directions (issued 1st Jan 2009)

Click Here

(or 'right-click' and save to your PC)

Copies are available now from the Publications Secretary - email: jerry.colman@manx.net

The directions are a heavy-duty, spiral bound, plastic covered book specially designed for use on-board.

Price £28 - P&P is £3.50 to UK postal addresses