Evolution of a race - Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12

A brief history of the Volvo Ocean Race and the Whitbread Round the World Race 1973-74 to 2008-09 - to whet your appetite ahead of the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12. Featuring the stars such as Sir Peter Blake on Steinlager, Ken Read on PUMA

From TheTelegraph

Sailing’s elite will be pushed to the limits of endurance – and sometimes beyond – as they race 39,000 miles through four oceans in an eight-month round the world marathon.

More than just a yacht race, the Volvo Ocean Race sees the sport’s elite take on Mother Nature in a test of skill, bravery and survival.
The teams, each made up of 11 professional yachtsmen, will spend up to four weeks at a time living, sleeping, eating and racing on state-of-the-art 70ft boats as they take on the ‘Everest of sailing’.
These men will exist on as little as two hours sleep a day, face temperatures from -15°C to 40°C and tackle hunger and extreme fatigue.
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week they only have one goal: to make their yacht go faster.
Capable of speeds of more than 40mph, the Volvo Open 70 yachts the crews will race are the fastest monohull boats in the world.
They represent the cutting edge of design, construction and communications, taking influence from aerospace and military technology.

"If you are determined to be in the sailing game you have to do this Race" - Sir Peter Blake

The race began life in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race when nineteen yachts left Portsmouth with little idea of what they were getting themselves into.

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 Global Course (VirtualEyeTV)

Now they know – and still choose to go, in pursuit of glory in sailing’s toughest challenge.

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 competitors : teams guide

ABU DHABI
United Arab Emirates
Skipper : Ian Walker (UK), 1 participation to the VOR
Boat : Azzam
Architect : Farr Yacht Design
Shipyard : Persico, Bergamo, Italie

CAMPER
Spain/New Zealand
Skipper : Chris Nicholson (AUS), 3 participations to the VOR
Boat : Camper
Architects : Marcelino Botin & Emirates Team New Zealand Design Team
Shipyard Cookson Boats, Auckland, Nouvelle-Zélande

GROUPAMA SAILING TEAM
France
Skipper : Franck Cammas (FRA), first participation to the VOR
Boat : Groupama 4
Architect : Juan Yacht Design (Juan Kouyoumdjian)
Shipyard : Multiplast, Vannes, France

PUMA
United States
Skipper : Ken Read (USA), 2 participations to the VOR
Boat : Puma’s Mar Mostro
Architect : Juan Yacht Design (Juan Kouyoumdjian)
Shipyard : New England Boarworks, Rhode Island, USA

TEAM SANYA
China
Skipper : Mike Sanderson (NZL), 3 participations with a victoiry in 2005-06 with ABN AMRO ONE
Boat : Sanya (Ex-Telefonica Blue)
Architect : Farr Yacht Design
Shipyard : King Marine, Valencia, Espagne et refit chez Hamble Yachr Services, Hamble, UK

TEAM TELEFONICA
Spain
Skipper : Iker Martinez (ESP), 2 participations to the VOR
Boat : Telefonica
Architect : Juan Yacht Design (Juan Kouyoumdjian)
Shipyard : King Marine, Valencia, Espagne

Links :

• HuffingtonPost : Volvo Ocean Race brings prestige, profit to sailing
• TheTelegraph : Why the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/12 is more than just a yacht race for sailing's elite
• Wired : Round the World racers unveil new sailing speed tracker
• YouTube : Volvo Ocean channel
• SailWorld : Volvo Ocean Race launches free mobile app
• 3D race viewer

Brazil DHN update in the Marine GeoGarage

3333 Foz do Rio Apa

27 charts have been added (DHN update September,28)

• 21060 DO ARQUIPELAGO DOS ABROLHOS AO CABO FRIO
• 3307 DA ISLA POYBÍ A ISLA URUGUAYTÁ
• 3317 DA ISLA DEL LOCO AO PASO SIETE PUNTAS
• 3318 DO PASO SIETE PUNTAS AO PASO MILAGRO
• 3320 DA ISLA SALADILLO AO PASO ROMERO-CUÉ
• 3332 PUERTO VALLEMI
• 3333 FOZ DO RIO APA
• 3334 DO PORTO SASTRE À CANCHA ESTRELA
• 3381 DA ILHA VERDE À ILHA PARAGUAI MIRIM
• 3382 DO RIO PARAGUAI MIRIM À ILHA BAGUARI
• 3383 DO PASSO BAGUARI À VOLTA DA SUCURI
• 3384 DA VOLTA DA SUCURI AO PASSO COQUEIRO
• 3385 DA ILHA DO COQUEIRO À ILHA SANTA FÉ
• 3386 DA ILHA SANTA FÉ AO CORREGO DO MATTA CACHORRO
• 3389 JUSANTE DA ILHA PIUVA AO PASSO PIUVA SUPERIOR
• 3394 DA FOZ DO RIO CUIABÁ AO REFÚGIO DAS TRÊS BOCAS
• 3395 DO CORIXO DO MOQUÉM À BAÍA DO ACURIZAL
• 3396 DA ILHA DO ACURIZAL À BOCA DA FIGUEIRA
• 3397 DO ESTIRÃO DO CARANDÁ GRANDE À VOLTA DO ARGOLÃO
• 3398 DA VOLTA DO ARGOLÃO À VOLTA CANAFRISTA
• 3436 DO PASSO SIMÃO NUNES INFERIOR AO FURADO DO JATOBÁ
• 3437 DO FURADO DO TUIUIU AO ESTIRÃO DO ALEGRE
• 3438 DO PASSO DO ALEGRE AO PASSO PASSAGEM VELHA
• 3439 DO PASSO PASSAGEM VELHA AO PASSO RETIRO VELHO
• 3440 DA SANTA CRUZ À VOLTA PIUVAL
• 3441 DO RIACHO PIUVAL À BOCA DO CAIÇARA
• 3442 DO POSTO AGRÍCOLA ACÁCERES

Today 265 charts (310 including sub-charts) from DHN are displayed in the Marine GeoGarage

NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

NZ5322 Auckland Harbour East

2 charts have been updated in the Marine GeoGarage (Linz July update published 29 August, 2011) :

• NZ5322 : Auckland Harbour East
  
• NZ5413 : Approaches to Tauranga
  

Today NZ Linz charts (178 charts / 340 including sub-charts) are displayed in the Marine GeoGarage.

Note : LINZ produces official nautical charts to aid safe navigation in New Zealand waters and certain areas of Antarctica and the South-West Pacific.

Using charts safely involves keeping them up-to-date using Notices to Mariners

UK & misc. update in the Marine GeoGarage

Today 960 charts (x including sub-charts) are available in the 'UK & misc.' chart layer

regrouping charts for different countries :

1. UK
2. Argentina
3. Belgium
4. Netherlands
5. Croatia
6. Oman
7. Portugal
8. Spain
9. Iceland
10. South Africa
11. Malta

660 charts for UK

9 charts for Argentina :

• 226 International Chart Series, Antarctica - South Shetlands Islands, Deception Island.
  
• 227 Church Point to Cape Longing including James Ross Island
• 2505 Approaches to the Falkland Islands
• 2517 North-Western Approaches to the Falkland Islands
• 2519 South-Western Approaches to the Falkland Islands
• 3213 Plans in Graham Land
  
• 3560 Gerlache Strait Northern Part
• 3566 Gerlache Strait Southern Part
• 4207 Falkland Islands to Cabo Corrientes and Northeast Georgia Rise

27 charts for Belgium & Nederlands :

• 99 Entrances to Rivers in Guyana and Suriname
• 110 Westkapelle to Stellendam and Maasvlakte
• 112 Terschellinger Gronden to Harlingen
• 120 Westerschelde - Vlissingen to Baalhoek and Gent - Terneuzen Canal
• 122 Approaches to Europoort and Hoek van Holland
• 124 Noordzeekanaal including Ijmuiden, Zaandam and Amsterdam
• 125 North Sea Netherlands - Approaches to Scheveningen and Ijmuiden
• 126 North Sea, Netherlands, Approaches to Den Helder
• 128 Westerschelde, Valkenisse to Wintam
• 207 Hoek Van Holland to Vlaardingen
• 208 Rotterdam, Nieuwe Maas and Oude Maas
• 209 Krimpen a/d Lek to Moerdijk
• 266 North Sea Offshore Charts Sheet 11
• 572 Essequibo River to Corentyn River
• 702 Nederlandse Antillen, Aruba and Curacao
• 1187 Outer Silver Pit
• 1408 North Sea, Harwich and Rotterdam to Cromer and Terschelling.
• 1412 Caribbean Sea - Nederlandse Antillen, Ports in Aruba and Curacao
• 1414 Bonaire
• 1503 Outer Dowsing to Smiths Knoll including Indefatigable Banks.
• 1504 Cromer to Orford Ness
• 1546 Zeegat van Texel and Den Helder Roads
• 1630 West Hinder and Outer Gabbard to Vlissingen and Scheveningen
• 1631 DW Routes to Ijmuiden and Texel
• 1632 DW Routes and Friesland Junction to Vlieland
• 1874 North Sea, Westerschelde, Oostende to Westkapelle
• 2047 Approaches to Anguilla

14 charts for Croatia :

• 201 Rt Kamenjak to Novigrad
• 202 Kvarner, Kvarneric and Velebitski Kanal
• 269 Ploce and Split with Adjacent Harbours, Channels and Anchorages
• 515 Zadar to Luka Mali Losinj
• 683 Bar, Dubrovnik and Approaches and Peljeski Kanal
• 1574 Otok Glavat to Ploce and Makarska
• 1580 Otocic Veliki Skolj to Otocic Glavat
• 1582 Approaches to Bar and Boka Kotorska
• 1996 Ports in Rijecki Zaljev
• 2711 Rogoznica to Zadar
• 2712 Otok Susac to Split
• 2719 Rt Marlera to Senj including Approaches to Rijeka
• 2773 Sibenik, Pasmanski Kanal, Luka Telascica, Sedmovrace, Rijeka Krka
• 2774 Otok Vis to Sibenik

6 charts for Oman :

• 2851 Masirah to the Strait of Hormuz
• 2854 Northern approaches to Masirah
• 3171 Southern Approaches to the Strait of Hormuz
• 3409 Plans in Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates
• 3511 Wudam and Approaches
• 3518 Ports and Anchorages on the North East Coast of Oman

123 charts for Spain & Portugal :

• 73 Puerto de Huelva and Approaches
• 83 Ports on the South Coast of Portugal
• 85 Spain - south west coast, Rio Guadalquivir
• 86 Bahia de Cadiz
• 87 Cabo Finisterre to the Strait of Gibraltar
• 88 Cadiz
• 89 Cabo de Sao Vicente to Faro
• 91 Cabo de Sao Vicente to the Strait of Gibraltar
• 93 Cabo de Santa Maria to Cabo Trafalgar
• 142 Strait of Gibraltar
• 144 Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar
• 307 Angola, Cabeca da Cobra to Cabo Ledo
• 308 Angola, Cabo Ledo to Lobito
• 309 Lobito to Ponta Grossa
• 312 Luanda to Baia dos Tigres
• 366 Arquipelago de Cabo Verde
• 369 Plans in the Arquipelago de Cabo Verde
• 469 Alicante
• 473 Approaches to Alicante
• 518 Spain East Coast, Approaches to Valencia
• 562 Mediterranean Sea, Spain - East Coast Valencia NEW
  
• 580 Al Hoceima, Melilla and Port Nador with Approaches
• 690 Cabo Delgado to Mikindani Bay
• 886 Estrecho de la Bocayna and Approaches to Arrecife
• 1094 Rias de Ferrol, Ares, Betanzos and La Coruna
• 1096 Ribadeo
• 1110 La Coruna and Approaches
• 1111 Punta de la Estaca de Bares to Cabo Finisterre
• 1113 Harbours on the North-West Coast of Spain
• 1117 Puerto de Ferrol
• 1118 Ria de Ferrol
• 1122 Ports on the North Coast of Spain
• 1133 Ports on the Western Part of the North Coast of Spain
• 1142 Ria de Aviles
• 1145 Spain - North Coast, Santander
• 1150 Ports on the North Coast of Spain
• 1153 Approaches to Gijon
• 1154 Spain, north coast, Gijon
• 1157 Pasaia (Pasajes) and Approaches
• 1172 Puertos de Bermeo and Mundaka
• 1173 Spain - North Coast, Bilbao
• 1174 Approaches to Bilbao
• 1180 Barcelona
• 1189 Approaches to Cartagena
• 1193 Spain - east coast, Tarragona
• 1194 Cartagena
• 1196 Approaches to Barcelona
• 1197 Plans on the West Coast of Africa
• 1215 Plans on the Coast of Angola
• 1216 Baia dos Tigres
• 1290 Cabo de San Lorenzo to Cabo Ortegal
• 1291 Santona to Gijon
• 1448 Gibraltar Bay
• 1453 Gandia
• 1455 Algeciras
• 1460 Sagunto
• 1514 Spain - East Coast, Castellon
• 1515 Ports on the East Coast of Spain
• 1589 Almeria
• 1595 Ilhas do Principe, de Sao Tome and Isla Pagalu
• 1684 Ilha da Madeira, Manchico and Canical
• 1685 Nisis Venetico to Nisos Spetsai including the Channels between Akra Maleas and Kriti
• 1689 Ports in the Arquipelago da Madeira
• 1701 Cabo de San Antonio to Vilanova I la Geltru including Islas de Ibiza and Formentera
• 1703 Mallorca and Menorca
• 1704 Punta de la Bana to Islas Medas
• 1724 Canal do Geba and Bissau
• 1726 Approaches to Canal do Geba and Rio Cacheu
• 1727 Bolama and Approaches
• 1730 Spain - West Coast, Ria de Vigo
• 1731 Vigo
• 1732 Spain - West Coast, Ria de Pontevedra
• 1733 Spain - West Coast, Marin and Pontevedra
• 1734 Approaches to Ria de Arousa
• 1740 Livingston Island, Bond Point to Brunow Bay including Juan Carlos 1 Base and Half Moon Island
• 1755 Plans in Ria de Arousa
• 1756 Ria de Muros
• 1762 Vilagarcia de Arosa
• 1764 Ria de Arousa
• 1831 Arquipelago da Madeira
• 1847 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1850 Approaches to Malaga
• 1851 Malaga
• 1854 Motril and Adra
• 1856 Approaches to Puerto de La Luz (Las Palmas)
• 1858 Approaches to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Puerto de San Sebastian de la Gomera, Santa Cruz de la Palma and Approaches
• 1869 Gran Canaria to Hierro
• 1870 Lanzarote to Gran Canaria
• 1895 Ilha de Sao Miguel
• 1950 Arquipelago dos Acores
• 1956 Arquipelago dos Acores Central Group
• 1957 Harbours in the Arquipelago Dos Acores (Central Group)
• 1959 Flores,Corvo and Santa Maria with Banco Das Formigas
• 2742 Cueta
• 2761 Menorca
• 2762 Menorca, Mahon
• 2831 Punta Salinas to Cabo de Formentor including Canal de Menorca
• 2832 Punta Salinas to Punta Beca including Isla de Cabrera
• 2834 Ibiza and Formentera
• 2932 Cabo de Sao Sebastiao to Beira
• 2934 Africa - east coast, Mozambique, Beira to Rio Zambeze
• 2935 Quelimane to Ilha Epidendron
• 3034 Approaches to Palma
• 3035 Palma
• 3220 Entrance to Rio Tejo including Baia de Cascais
• 3221 Lisboa, Paco de Arcos to Terreiro do Trigo
• 3222 Lisboa, Alcantara to Canal do Montijo
• 3224 Approaches to Sines
• 3227 Aveiro and Approaches
  
• 3228 Approaches to Figueira da Foz
• 3257 Viana do Castelo and Approaches
• 3258 Approaches to Leixoes and Barra do Rio Douro
• 3259 Approaches to Setubal
• 3260 Carraca to Ilha do Cavalo
• 3448 Plans in Angola
• 3578 Eastern Approaches to the Strait of Gibraltar
• 3633 Islas Sisargas to Montedor
• 3634 Montedor to Cabo Mondego
• 3635 Cabo Mondego to Cabo Espichel
• 3636 Cabo Espichel to Cabo de Sao Vicente
• 3764 Cabo Torinana to Punta Carreiro
• 4114 Arquipelago dos Acores to Flemish Cap
• 4115 Arquipelago dos Acores to the Arquipelago de Cabo Verde
• Ilha de Madeira, Ponta Gorda de Sao Lourenco including the Port of Funchal

13 charts for Iceland :

• 2733 Dyrholaey to Snaefellsjokull
• 2734 Approaches to Reykjavik
• 2735 Iceland - South West Coast, Reykjavik
• 2897 Iceland
• 2898 Vestfirdir
• 2899 Iceland, Noth Coast, Horn to Rauoinupur
• 2900 Iceland, North East Coast, Rauoinupur to Glettinganes
• 2901 Iceland, East Coast, Glettinganes to Stokksnes
• 2902 Stokksnes to Dyrholaey
• 2955 Iceland, North Coast, Akureyri
• 2956 Iceland, North Coast, Eyjafjordur
• 2937 Hlada to Glettinganes
• 2938 Reydarfjordur

47 charts for South Africa :

• 578 Cape Columbine to Cape Seal
• 632 Hollandsbird Island to Cape Columbine
• 643 Durban Harbour
• 1236 Saldanha Bay
• 1769 Islands and Anchorages in the South Atlantic Ocean
• 1806 Baia dos Tigres to Conception Bay
• 1846 Table Bay Docks and Approaches
• 1922 RSA - Simon's Bay
• 2078 Port Nolloth to Island Point
• 2086 East London to Port S Johns
• 2087 Port St John's to Durban
• 2088 Durban to Cape Vidal
• 2095 Cape St Blaize to Port S. John's
• 3793 Shixini Point to Port S Johns
• 3794 Port S Johns to Port Shepstone
• 3795 Port Shepstone to Cooper Light
• 3797 Green Point to Tongaat Bluff
• 3859 Cape Cross to Conception Bay
• 3860 Mutzel Bay to Spencer Bay
• 3861 Namibia, Approaches to Luderitz
• 3869 Hottentot Point to Chamais Bay
  
• 3870 Chamais Bay to Port Nolloth
• 4132 Kunene River to Sand Table Hill
• 4133 Sand Table Hill to Cape Cross
• 4136 Harbours on the West Coasts of Namibia and South Africa
• 4141 Island Point to Cape Deseada
• 4142 Saldanha Bay Harbour
• 4145 Approaches to Saldanha Bay
• 4146 Cape Columbine to Table Bay
• 4148 Approaches to Table Bay
• 4150 Republic of South Africa, South West Coast, Table Bay to Valsbaai
• 4151 Cape Deseada to Table Bay
• 4152 Republic of South Africa, South West Coast, Table Bay to Cape Agulhas
• 4153 Republic of South Africa, South Coast, Cape Agulhas to Cape St. Blaize
• 4154 Mossel Bay
• 4155 Cape St Blaize to Cape St Francis
• 4156 South Africa, Cape St Francis to Great Fish Point
• 4157 South Africa, Approaches to Port Elizabeth
• 4158 Republic of South Africa - South Coast, Plans in Algoa Bay.
• 4159 Great Fish Point to Mbashe Point
• 4160 Ngqura Harbour
• 4162 Approaches to East London
• 4170 Approaches to Durban
• 4172 Tugela River to Ponta do Ouro
• 4173 Approaches to Richards Bay
• 4174 Richards Bay Harbour
• 4205 Agulhas Plateau to Discovery Seamounts

5 charts for Malta :


• 36 Marsaxlokk
• 177 Valletta Harbours
• 211 Plans in the Maltese Islands
• 2537 Ghawdex (Gozo), Kemmuna (Comino) and the Northern Part of Malta
• 2538 Malta


60 international charts from NGA



• 3 Chagos Archipelago
• 82 Outer Approaches to Port Sudan
• 100 Raas Caseyr to Suqutra
• 255 Eastern Approaches to Jamaica
• 256 Western Approaches to Jamaica
• 260 Pedro Bank to the South Coast of Jamaica
• 333 Offshore Installations in the Gulf of Suez
• 334 North Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda
• 386 Yadua Island to Yaqaga Island
• 390 Bahamas, Grand Bahama Island, Approaches to Freeport
• 398 Grand Bahama Island, Freeport Roads, Freeport Harbour
• 457 Portland Bight
• 462 The Cayman Islands
• 486 Jamaica and the Pedro Bank
• 501 South East Approaches to Trinidad
• 700 Maiana to Marakei
• 766 Ellice Islands
• 868 Eastern and Western Approaches to The Narrows including Murray's Anchorage
• 920 Chagos Archipelago, Diego Garcia
• 928 Sulu Archipelago
• 959 Colson Point to Belize City including Lighthouse Reef and Turneffe Islands
• 1043 Saint Lucia to Grenada and Barbados
• 1225 Gulf of Campeche
• 1450 Turks and Caicos Islands, Turks Island Passage and Mouchoir Passage
• 1638 Plans in Northern Vanuatu
• 2006 West Indies, Virgin Islands, Anegada to Saint Thomas
• 2009 Sheet 2 From 23 deg 40 min North Latitude to Old Bahama Channel
• 2065 Northern Antigua
• 2133 Approaches to Suez Bay (Bahr el Qulzum)
• 2373 Bahr el Qulzum (Suez Bay) to Ras Sheratib
• 2374 Ra's Sharatib to Juzur Ashrafi
• 2441 Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Bozorg to Jazireh-ye Forur
• 2658 Outer Approaches to Mina` al Jeddah (Jiddah)
• 2837 Strait of Hormuz to Qatar
• 2847 Qatar to Shatt al `Arab
• 2858 Gulf of Oman to Shatt al `Arab NEW
  
• 2887 Dubai (Dubayy) and Jazireh-Ye Qeshm to Jazirat Halul
  
• 2888 Jask to Dubayy and Jazireh-ye Qeshm
• 2889 Dubayy to Jabal Az Zannah and Jazirat Das
• 3043 Red Sea, Ports on the coast of Egypt.
• 3172 Strait of Hormuz
• 3174 Western Approaches to the Strait of Hormuz
• 3175 Jazirat al Hamra' to Dubai (Dubayy) and Jazireh-ye Sirri
• 3179 UAE and Qatar, Jazirat Das to Ar Ru' Ays
• 3310 Africa - east coast, Mafia Island to Pemba Island
• 3361 Wasin Island to Malindi
• 3432 Saltpond to Tema
• 3493 Red Sea - Sudan, Bashayer Oil Terminals and Approaches NEW
  
• 3519 Southern Approaches to Masirah
• 3520 Khawr Kalba and Dawhat Diba to Gahha Shoal
• 3522 Approaches to Masqat and Mina' al Fahl
• 3530 Approaches to Berbera
• 3785 Mina' Raysut to Al Masirah
• 3907 Bahama Islands and Hispaniola, Passages between Mayaguana Island and Turks and Caicos Islands.
• 3908 Passages between Turks and Caicos Islands and Dominican Republic
• 3910 Little Bahama Bank including North West Providence Channel
• 3912 Bahamas, North East Providence Channel and Tongue of the Ocean
• 3913 Bahamas, Crooked Island Passage and Exuma Sound
• 3914 Turks and Caicos Islands and Bahamas, Caicos Passage and Mayaguana Passage
• 3951 Sir Bani Yas to Khawr al `Udayd




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Canada CHS update in the Marine GeoGarage

1316 Québec harbour

5 charts (12 including sub-charts) have been added and 117 charts have been updated (October 11) :

• 1202 CAP ETERNITE TO SAINT-FULGENCE
• 1203 TADOUSSAC TO CAP ETERNITE
• 1236 POINTE DES MONTS TO ESCOUMINS
• 1313 BATISCAN TO LAC SAINT-PIERRE
• 1315 QUEBEC TO DONNACONA
• 1316 PORT DE QUEBEC
• 1317 SAULT-AU-COCHON TO QUEBEC
• 1320 ILE DU BIC TO CAP DE LA TETE AU CHIEN
• 1350A SOREL - TRACY TO RUISSEAU LAHAISE
• 1350B RUISSEAU LAHAISE TO SAINT-ANTOINE-SUR-RICHELIEU
• 1350C SAINT-ANTOINE-SUR-RICHELIEU TO ILE AUX CERFS
• 1350D ILE AUX CERFS TO OTTERBURN PARK
• 1433 ILE ST.REGIS TO CROIL ISLANDS A-B
• 1434 CROIL ISLANDS TO CARDINAL B-C
• 1438 GRINDSTONE ISLAND TO CARLETON ISLAND
• 1509A RIVIERE DES PRAIRIES/ ILE BIZARD TO PONT-VIAU
• 1509B RIVIERE DES PRAIRIES PONT-VIAU TO ILE BOURDON
• 1510A LAC DES DEUX MONTAGNES
• 1510B LAC DES DEUX MONTAGNES
• 1514A CARILLON TO L'ORIGNAL
• 1514B L'ORIGNAL TO PAPINEAUVILLE
• 2047 CLARKSON HARBOUR
• 2077 LAKE ONTARIO/LAC ONTARIO - WESTERN PORTION
• 2085 TORONTO HARBOUR
• 2086 TORONTO TO HAMILTON
• 2243 BATEAU ISLAND TO BYNG INLET
• 3419 ESQUIMALT HARBOUR
• 3447 NANAIMO HARBOUR AND DEPARTURE BAY
• 3456 HALIBUT BANK TO BALLENAS CHANNEL
• 3458 APPROACHES TO NANAIMO HARBOUR
• 3459 APPROACHES TO NANOOSE HARBOUR
• 3463 STRAIT OF GEORGIA SOUTHERN PORTION
• 3473 ACTIVE PASS PORLIER PASS AND MONTAGUE HARBOUR
• 3489A PATTULLO BRIDGE TO BARNSTON ISLAND
• 3489B PATTULLO BRIDGE TO CRESCENT ISLAND
• 3494 VANCOUVER HARBOUR CENTRAL POSITION
• 3495 VANCOUVER HARBOUR EASTERN PORTION
• 3512 STRAIT OF GEORGIA CENTRAL PORTION
• 3513 STRAIT OF GEORGIA NORTHERN PORTION
• 3535 PLANS MALASPINA STRAIT - PENDER HARBOUR
• 3538 DESOLATION SOUND AND SUTIL CHANNEL
• 3539 DISCOVERY PASSAGE
• 3541 APPROACHES TO TOBA INLET
• 3546 BROUGHTON STRAIT
• 3646 PLANS BARKLEY SOUND
• 3724 CAAMANO SOUND AND APPROACHES
• 3726 LAREDO SOUND AND APPROACHES
• 3728 MILBANKE SOUND AND APPROACHES
• 3737 LAREDO CHANNEL - INCLUDING LAREDO INLET AND SURF INLET
• 3742 OTTER PASSAGE TO McKAY REACH
• 3743 DOUGLAS CHANNEL
• 3800 DIXON ENTRANCE
• 3807 ATLI INLET TO SELWYN INLET
• 3825 CAPE ST JAMES TO HOUSTON STEWART CHANNEL
• 3855 HOUSTON STEWART CHANNEL
• 3931 SMITH INLET BOSWELL INLET AND DRANEY INLET
• 3938 QUEENS SOUND TO SEAFORTH CHANNEL
• 3941 CHANNELS VICINITY OF MILBANKE SOUND
• 3958 PRINCE RUPERT HARBOUR
• 3974 DEAN CHANNEL
• 4002 GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
• 4003 CAPE BRETON TO CAPE COD
• 4011 APPROACHES TO BAY OF FUNDY
• 4012 YARMOUTH TO HALIFAX
• 4022 CABOT STRAIT AND APPROACHES
• 4023 NORTHUMBERLAND STRAIT
• 4024 CHALEUR BAY TO ILES DE LA MADELEINE
• 4047 ST PIERRE BANK TO WHALE BANK
• 4049 GRAND BANK NORTHERN PORTION TO FLEMISH PASS
• 4114 CAMPOBELLO ISLAND
• 4115 PASSAMAQUODDY BAY AND ST CROIX RIVER
• 4116 APPROACHES TO SAINT JOHN
• 4118 ST. MARY'S BAY
• 4124 LETETE PASSAGE LETANG HARBOUR AND BLACKS HARBOUR
• 4141A SAINT JOHN TO EVANDALE
• 4141B GRAND BAY TO EVANDALE INCLUDING BELLEISLE BAY
• 4210 CAPE SABLE TO PUBNICO HARBOUR
• 4227 COUNTRY HARBOUR TO SHIP HARBOUR
• 4233 CAPE CANSO TO COUNTRY ISLAND
• 4237 APPROACHES TO HALIFAX HARBOUR
• 4242 CAPE SABLE ISLAND TO TUSKET ISLANDS
• 4307 CANSO HARBOUR TO STRAIT OF CANSO
• 4320 EGG ISLAND TO WEST IRONBOUND ISLAND
• 4335 STRAIT OF CANSO AND APPROACHES
• 4374 RED POINT TO GUYON ISLAND
• 4381 MAHONE BAY
• 4396 ANNAPOLIS BASIN
• 4404 CAPE GEORGE TO PICTOU
• 4405 PICTOU ISLAND TO TRYON SHOALS
• 4406 TRYON SHOALS TO CAPE EGMONT
• 4420 MURRAY HARBOUR
• 4447 POMQUET AND TRACADIE HARBOURS
• 4448 PORT HOOD
• 4452 HARBOURS AND ANCHORAGES - NORTH SHORE
• 4470 BLANC-SABLON TO MIDDLE-BAY
• 4485 CAP DES ROSIERS TO CHANDLER
• 4486 CHALEUR BAY
• 4491 MALPEQUE BAY
• 4522 TILT COVE AND LA SCIE HARBOUR (APPROACHES LA SCIE HARBOUR)
• 4541 SOPS ARM
• 4617 RED ISLAND TO PINCHGUT POINT
• 4619 PRESQUE HARBOUR TO BAR HAVEN ISLAND AND PARADISE SOUND
• 4624 LONG ISLAND TO ST. LAWRENCE HARBOURS
• 4652 HUMBER ARM - MEADOWS POINT TO HUMBER RIVER
• 4722 TERRINGTON BASIN
• 4728 EPINETTE POINT TO TERRINGTON BASIN
• 4821 WHITE BAY AND NOTRE DAME BAY
• 4825 BURGEO AND RAMEA ISLANDS
• 4826 BURGEO TO FRANCOIS
• 4846 MOTION BAY TO CAPE ST FRANCIS
• 4851 TRINITY BAY - SOUTHERN PORTION
• 4853 TRINITY BAY - NORTHERN PORTION
• 4855 BONAVISTA BAY SOUTHERN PORTION
• 4856 BONAVISTA BAY WESTERN PORTION
• 4865 APPROACHES TO LEWISPORTE AND LOON BAY
• 4911 ENTREE ENTRANCE TO MIRAMICHI RIVER
• 4912 MIRAMICHI
• 4921 HAVRE DE BEAUBASSIN
• 4980 BLANC-SABLON
• 5001 LABRADOR SEA
• 5023 CAPE HARRISON TO NUNAKSALUK ISLAND
• 5043 QUAKER HAT TO CAPE HARRISON
• 5044 CAPE HARRISON TO DOG ISLANDS
• 5045 DOG ISLANDS TO CAPE MAKKOVIK
• 5058 NORTH HEAD TO MURPHY HEAD
• 6218A KENORA RAT PORTAGE BAY
• 6218B KENORA RAT PORTAGE BAY
• 7127 APPROACHES TO KOOJESSE INLET
• 7220 LANCASTER SOUND EASTERN APPROACHES
• 8048 CAPE HARRISON TO ST MICHAEL BAY

So 790 charts (1671 including sub-charts) are available in the Canada CHS layer. (see coverage)

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This essential publication provides the latest information on changes to the aids to navigation system, as well as updates from CHS regarding CHS charts and publications.
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Title wave carries Slater to record-breaking heights

From SydneyMorningHerald

Sschumacher, Federer, Woods and Armstrong are surnames synonymous with world domination.
But a 39-year-old surfer by the name of Robert Kelly Slater staked his claim for the right to be labelled the greatest athlete of all-time, clinching a record 11th world title on Wednesday, 19 years after his first.
While Schumacher (last formula one title in 2006), Federer (last grand slam win 2010) and Woods (last major win 2008) have all seemingly been surpassed by the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Novak Djokovic in recent years, Slater has comprehensively dominated world surfing throughout three decades.

He has reinvented himself and the sport on countless occasions and, today, 99 days short of his 40th birthday, remains the best surfer in the world, while his decorated world sport counterparts battle for placings among their respective chasing packs.
"And I can't see him slowing down either," said two-time world champion Mick Fanning, the only other surfer to have won the world championship since 2005."
I definitely think some of the surfing he's done in the past 24 months is some of the best surfing ever seen. And definitely in competition.

"Eleven world titles . . . he's a freak.
Most of us grew up watching him and he's still here, still getting better.
"If anything, he's definitely gotten faster and more nimble in the last two years than say 2007 or 2009 when I beat him."
"He just doesn't seem to age and there's something in him that just keeps inspiring. He hasn't let anyone know exactly what it is yet."

At 20, Slater was the youngest surfer to ever win the world title in 1992 and almost 20 years later, he is also the oldest to hold the crown.
"Part of it is people always talk about my age and you know I'm 39, almost 40, and to me that's literally just a number," Slater said when celebrating his win.
"You can prove people wrong and stay super healthy. I don't see why at 50 I can't be in better shape than I am now. If anything, I'd like to try to represent that to people. I eat well and I talk about it and I walk the walk and it shows in my ability physically."

From one world champion to another, four-time women's title holder Stephanie Gilmore considers Slater not just an inspiration to surfers but to people the world over.
Gilmore was three years old when Slater won his first title and now sits alongside him as a Quiksilver ambassador and world champion.
He's still an idol.
"It's amazing at his age and it's amazing for any type of human being to see progression of a human being well beyond what should have been their peak age," Gilmore said.
"He's setting new limits. I don't know if anyone in such a competitive world sport has been so dominant for so long."
Eleven world titles . . . it makes four world titles, even seven world titles look silly. It's unbelievable. He must be immortal."

Australian 21-year-old Owen Wright was the only competitor capable of upsetting the historic title before Slater's third-round win on Wednesday over Yamba product Dan Ross.
Many, including Slater, have labelled Wright, from Lennox Head, a future world-title winner. But despite an 18-year age advantage – and spending much of his 21 years aspiring to be as good as "The King" – Wright is yet to unseat arguably the most dominant force in world sport.
"Last year from Kelly was unbelievable but this year it's kind of gone out of this universe," Wright said.
"I don't know if anyone actually comprehends what he's doing and how he's doing it."
He started on tour the same year I was born and he is still the best surfer in the world.
"He's a champion and there's a lot of guys looking at him trying to watch and learn. And the younger generation are really going to pick up on some of his tricks. Jordy [Smith], myself and Julian [Wilson] and the other young guys keep pushing him and it's a good thing for him, maybe not so much us, because why would you want to compete somewhere when you're not getting pushed."
He took surfing to the next level in the 1990s and he's done so every decade since.
Kelly is surfing.
He has to be one of the greatest athletes of all time.
And there are no signs of him stopping yet.

Links :

• HuffingtonPost : Kelly Slater will likely win his 11th World Title in San Francisco
• GeoGarage blog : Kelly Slater wins his 10th surfing world title
  

World's biggest marine protection zone proposed for Antarctic

The Antarctic Ocean Alliance has just launched calling for the world's largest marine reserve around Antarctica to protect this unique ecosystem for all time.

From TheTelegraph

A global coalition of scientists has called for the waters of the Antarctic to be turned into the world's biggest marine protection zone.

The Antarctic Ocean Alliance, made up of a number of conservation groups including Greenpeace, wants 19 parts of the southern seas to be declared "no take zones", where industrial fishing is banned.

The move would protect 10,000 species, including emperor penguins, minke and killer whales, seals, krill and colossal squid, in regions ranging from the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula to the Weddell Sea.

Adelie penguin as it lands on the Antarctic ice (photo John Weller, The Last Ocean)

Currently, the Antarctic land mass is protected under law, but the waters that surround it, which are teeming with rare marine life, are not.
The AOA has warned that as fishing stocks around the world were becoming increasingly depleted, fishing boats were heading south.
"The problem at the moment is that as fisheries resources around the world come under more and more pressure, there are going to be more distant water-fishing nations who want to go to the oceans around Antarctica to extract protein," AOA director Steve Campbell said.
"And they are going to do it either legally or illegally."
Mr Campbell said the alliance was calling for the creation of a reserve network "on a scale that hasn't been done anywhere else on the planet before because of the enormous value of the Antarctic wilderness to science and to humanity".

The 25-nation Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is set to decide on a network of marine reserves by 2012.
Antarctica is seen as a critical resource for studying climate change, with its ice cores providing valuable data on greenhouse gas levels and temperatures.

Links :

• HuffingtonPost : Antarctic Ocean Alliance Call For World's Biggest Marine Protection Zone In Antarctica
• Greenpeace : Protecting the wild south: Antarctica
  

The story of the captain who wrecked twice the same boat in the same place

Wreck of the 1952-built EVER PROSPERITY (e-UMA MARU)
The wreck of the former Liberty EVER PROSPERITY can be seen 45 mile to the SE of this one.

From Artificialowl

They might not be the most spectacular shipwrecks you have ever seen, but the story that lead those 2 ships to wreck on the reef coast of new Caledonia is pretty unusual.

The strange story of the two "Ever Prosperity".
They were twin ships ("Liberty ships"), they had same name and same base port in Monrovia, Liberia.

The first "Ever Prosperity" went straight up on the West Coast barrier reef in 1965.

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The second one did exactly same in 1970.

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It was the same captain, a Korean man, who had been commanding each ship at the time of her grounding!

Cute Creta

This Envisat image is dominated by the island of Crete separating the Aegean and Libyan Seas in the eastern Mediterranean.

At the top of the image we can see the southern portion of the Cyclades island group, including the islands of Milos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini.
This image is a compilation of three passes by Envisat’s radar on 11 December 2010, 10 January and 11 March 2011. Each is assigned a colour (red, green and blue) and combined to produce this representation.
New colours reveal changes in the surface between Envisat’s passes.
Credits: ESA

The largest and most populous of the Greek islands, Crete is home to numerous beaches, fertile plateaus, caves and high mountains.
Located at the centre of the island, Mount Psiloritis (also known as Mount Ida) towers over the others at 2454 m.
According to Greek mythology, the god of sky and thunder – Zeus – was born in a cave here.
While most of these islands are peaks of a submerged mountainous terrain, Milos and Santorini (the two backward-C-shaped islands) are volcanic.

Cute Creta from joerg daiber

Timelapse video with tilt-shift lens effect bringing back great memories of last summer holidays
Locations: Agios Nikolaos, Spinalonga, Kritsa, Katharo, Pitsidia and Matala on Crete, Greece.

Antique marine atlas online

World Map, De Zee Atlas, Pieter Goos, 17th C.

From Compagnie des Indes

Shipments trafficking campaigns are shipping a very long time, where the route is a constant concern.
In the history of the Atlantic, the main roads do not undergo little change.
They are only more or less borrowed, depending on periods and circumstances. Slave shipments show no specific major in the areas of navigation.
These are the same practices involved, and the same skills that are required.
The greatest originality probably lies in the coexistence of a Foreign Going Ship to most of the journey, and cabotage in the African side.
In addition to their experience and their ability to navigate by dead reckoning, the slave captains need to charts, which occur most often in the form of atlases and related compounds briefly a few leaves.
Whatever their nationality, criticism against the cartographers of Staff for errors especially in latitude, longitude, which complicate their roads, constantly recurring in the writings of sailors in their logbooks, vital source of details of these voyages.
Presented here is a selection of five atlas cartographers whose names appear frequently in the logs of the East India Company, demonstrating their use.
The choice in this case has focused on two Dutch atlases of the seventeenth century, when the Netherlands dominate the map, and two French atlases of the eighteenth century, which then take over.
These are actually three volumes, since the Petit Atlas Maritime Bellin, it is both the volume devoted to Africa (and Asia) and the volume on North America and Caribbean.
While many of the maps in the atlas have never been used on expeditions slave trade conducted by the East India Company, a consulting these volumes in their entirety has been privileged to provide an overview to Internet user.
The choice was also examined copies of the prestige of the Library of History of Defense, who received the utmost care in their implementation, which explains the excellent state in which they are still.
In addition, two copies of the atlas were completely Dutch watercolor, which gives them a certain character and a particularly remarkable clarity.

Pieter Goos and the ’Atlas of the sea' or Aquatic World

Pieter Goos (Amsterdam, 1616-1675) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher Dutch cartographer Abraham Goos's son, in the tradition of the great dynasties of the Dutch world of books.

It is revealed by publishing in 1650 Lichtende In Column Ofte Zee-Spiegel, nautical world atlas which will now be their specialty until his death.
His atlas are successful abroad, as shown in the English edition of 1670 by John Seller.
The same year that is published Atlas of the Sea World Aquatic or who takes over the charts Goos, changing the text inside the frontispiece, and adding a table of charts in French preliminary stage.

The Atlas of the Sea is not the atlas Goos for the most accurate representation of the African coast, which is limited by five charts.
There is a more detailed version of its maps the coast of Africa, the illustrated exemplary SHD to Vincennes under the symbol R 250, which has a dozen boards.
As in The Atlas of the Sea, they are always decorated with cartridges designed to evoke the picturesque continent.
In the form of a collection very roughly bound it gives a good idea of ​​the material which had actually slave captains to help in their browser.

All of the maps of the copy of The Atlas of the Sea presented here were watercolor.
It was a specialty atlases published in the Netherlands, because it guaranteed them a unique character conducive to good sales.
But despite a supposed rejection of this practice as mentioned in several texts, the French elites do not actually disdained at all, and atlases of many old collections of the Library Department of Defense from historical collections great characters have also been fully color.

Les Van Keulen and the Torch of the Sea

Johannes Van Keulen (1654-1715) was the publisher of the most influential Dutch charts in river in the late seventeenth century.
Based in Amsterdam in the late 1670s, he obtained a patent in 1680 to print and publishing nautical atlases and road.
Giving his company the name of "In the Gekroonde Lootsman" (which can be translated into English by the Crowned Driver), he quickly agreed with the cartographer Claes Janszoon Vooght.

This agreement leads from the 1681 publication of the Nieuwe Zee-Lichtende Fakkel, an atlas consisting of six volumes representing all the seven seas.
This was the result of a compilation of intense conducted by Vooght, while the charts were richly illustrated by Jan Luyken.
The publication of volumes spread between 1681 and 1684.

His work was continued by his son Gerard Van Keulen, which regularly publishes revised editions of the atlas.
His grand-son Johannes Van Keulen II published in 1755 a new and final edition of all the volumes, significantly enriched in the Asian part.

This is the version that is presented here.
Although references to Van Keulen charts in the logs of the French East India Company are abundant especially during the first half of the eighteenth century, the 1755 edition of this has the advantage of being the only one present the full charts published under the seal of the dynasty Van Keulen.

The maps on the African coast are much more numerous than in the Atlas of Goos, which is why the rule maps it in shipments slave trade was quickly challenged by the publication of the Atlas Van Keulen, which will be the major reference for European navigators throughout the first half of the eighteenth century.


D’Après de Mannevillette and his Neptune Oriental

Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette, born February 11, 1707 in Le Havre and died on 1 March 1780, is the most important French hydrographer of land of the eighteenth century to Beautemps-Beaupré.
He is the son of a captain of the East India Company, which took him to sail with him from the age of twelve.
Between 1719 and 1736, it does no less than five campaigns in India, China and the African coast, which the familiar early with the coasts of both continents.

In 1726, he began his first campaign as an officer of the Maréchal d'Estrees.
He quickly showed great qualities in terms of navigation, using the octant few years after its development by Hadley, and a passion for maps.
He undertook to correct existing maps and to produce new ones.

He is working on this project between 1735 and 1742, focusing on the coasts of Africa, India and China, allowing it to publish in 1745 the Neptune Oriental, receiving a warm welcome from European navigators, long frustrated by the secrecy maintained by the Portuguese map in these regions.
The success will be such that the atlas will receive a 1775 edition significantly renewed.
It is this that is presented.

He perfected his knowledge of the coastal command in 1749 when the 'Cheval Marin' on the coast of Guinea, in 1750 and the 'Glorieux', with whom he led to the Cape of Good Hope, the famous astronomer Abbé de La Caille.
Named captain of the vessels of the East India Company in 1753, he made ​​a new campaign in China, and control in 1756 the Duke of Bourgogne in the fleet of the Comte d'Aché in India.
It seems that it is found to be less brilliant fighter than hydrographer.

Logical consequence of the recognition of his special skills, he was appointed in February 1762 Head of Filing of maps and plans of the East India Company in Lorient, a position he held until his death, even after the removal of the Company India.
His death was followed shortly by the recovery of deposit collections of Lorient by the Filing of maps and plans of the Navy.
The direction of the Deposit of Paris, although it has officially criticized the 1775 edition of the Neptune Oriental, is in fact well aware of what charts Mannevillette.
According to this part of the world are much better than the Map Depot Navy maintains or has produced.

The copy shown here belonged to the collections of the Depot of War who has never overlooked the fact sea during its long history.
In connection with certain transfers of collections made during recent years, it is now central to the historical library of the Navy.

Bellin and the small maritime Atlas : Asia, Africa / America, Caraibes

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) is the embodiment par excellence of the cartographer of Staff.
It is likely, before the emergence of Beautemps-Beaupré at the end of the century, the leading figure of French hydrography of the eighteenth century, but has never yet made ​​himself of field surveys.

He joined in 1721 at the Depot maps and plans of the Navy, one year after the creation of this institution.
He spent all his life, having found in the rich holdings (maps and logs) gathered in this place an ideal ground for his taste for compilation.
He draws constantly in the amount of information made available, which also earned him some trouble with sailors who consider themselves robbed of their work, for example from the Mannevillette, who does not hesitate to drop what about a complaint at the Academy of Sciences.
All this really does not affect Bellin, who is formally appointed hydrographer of the Navy in August 1741.

Tends to confuse some different activities, Bellin advantage of his position to develop a successful business map complements his work at the Depot.
This work is embodied in two formats and productions very different objectives: Hydrography French on the one hand, and Le Petit Atlas Maritime other.
While all of these volumes is for browsers, the first atlas is more in the tradition of the great Dutch atlas of the previous century, while the latter, with its many plans, is more akin to the tradition of the road Navigation.
This also explains his great success with sailors.

Le Petit Atlas Maritime consists of five volumes: one for North America and the Caribbean, the second South America, Africa and the third in Asia, Europe and the fourth, finally, the fifth is reserved to France.
The two volumes presented here are from the library of Maréchal de Castries, Secretary of State of the Navy from 1780 to 1787, whose works are well represented in the old collection of historic Central Library of the Navy.
Maréchal' weapons appear on the binding of two magnificent atlas, in red morocco with decorated "to the band."