East & North Coasts of Ireland

Covering Kilmore Quay and Carnsore Point, northward via Malin Head to the Bloody Foreland. This 14th Edition includes new information from a comprehensive revisiting of the coast. With 99 aerial and 294 sea-level photographs, 99 plans and updated marina information in a new easier-to-use format.

Features:

• A4, soft cover, 224 pages
• 101 colour plans
• 264 sea level and 115 aerial photographs, including 61 new drone photographs
• Text completely revised in respect of navigational aids, facilities and shoreside amenities
• Describes 163 ports, harbours and anchorages
• New or improved facilities at six harbours
• Latest findings from the INFOMAR and other hydrographic survey projects including many hitherto uncharted dangers
• New and expanded tidal stream charts, and a co-tidal and co-range chart to help explain the powerful and complex tides of this coast
• Improved passage planning advice
• Sources of diesel fuel identified, in the light of the ban on marked diesel from January 2020 in the Republic of Ireland

About ICC Sailing Directions

The Irish Cruising Club's Sailing Directions are recognised as the premier pilotage guide to Irish coastal waters. The Directions, in two volumes, aim to describe every feasible passage, port, harbour and anchorage on the coasts of Ireland. They are continually updated on the web, and new editions are published every four to five years. They draw on the experience and observations of generations of amateur and professional sailors. Aerial photographs by Kevin Dwyer and sea-level photographs by Geraldine Hennigan are designed to be of navigational value and illustrate the pilotage.

The Sailing Directions can trace their origins back over a hundred years, beginning with Harry Donegan's collection of pilotage information around 1910. In 1929, the newly-formed Irish Cruising Club began publishing this information. By the 1950s, the guide had expanded to cover the entire Irish coast, becoming the standard reference for small-craft pilotage in Ireland.

Your copy of the ICC Sailing Directions can be kept up to date through regular Amendments available to view or download online until a new edition is published.

Praise for ICC Sailing Directions

"…it is well-nigh perfect. There is no alternative and there is no need for one."

- Cruising magazine

"Approach any port without these navigational directions on board at one's peril."

- The Irish Times

"…a respected and much-used publication here at CIL."

- Captain Robert McCabe, Commissioners of Irish Lights

About the Editor

Norman Kean has edited the Sailing Directions since 2005. A Yachtmaster Offshore and Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, he has personally explored every harbour and anchorage described in this guide. His expertise is sought by the UK Hydrographic Office, and he contributes regularly to Yachting Monthly.