Lost Sounds visits a number of lighthouses at different times over the last 130 years to reveal the philanthropic, scientific and romantic story of the fog signal - how it came about, how the machinery worked and, for the mariner and the keeper, what it sounded like! The development of fog signals complemented the expansion of lighthouse construction worldwide from the last quarter of the 19th century and represented the attempt to provide a vital navigation aid to mariners when the beam of light from the lighthouses lens was obscured by fog. Lost Sounds reveals the practical development of sound signals from the early percussion instruments to the later succession of compressed-air sirens and diaphones through to the last remaining electric emitters. However, it is much more than that - it is a record of another part of maritime history.

The Reeds Looseleaf Update Pack provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, the Azores and Madeira. A versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information in a convenient looseleaf form, the Looseleaf Almanac is inserted into a durable binder which stays open on the chart table and lets the user tailor the Almanac to their needs by personalising the contents supplied with whatever information they may want to add or take out. The Update Pack 2024 is for those who have bought the Reeds Looseleaf Almanac in previous years and just want to update their information rather than buy the binder again. Includes 700 harbour chartlets, harbour facilities, tide tables and streams, 7,500 waypoints, international codes and flags, weather, distance tables, passage advice, area planning charts, rules of the road, radio information, communications, safety, documentation and customs. The 2023 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes. Also includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk "There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them" Sir Chay Blyth "The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs" Yachting World "On every cruising boat you'll find one of these. Don't start your engines without it" Motor Boat and Yachting "The bible of almanacs" Classic Boat

Scale: 1:1,000,000 WGS 84 Imray Virgin and Leeward Islands

Here are the basics: the physics of sailing, the theory of sail, ship handling under sail and power, the diesel engine, electrics and electronic. Here is an introduction to navigation piloting, celestial, and electronic, the Nautical Almanac, the sextant, plotting, and a marvelous section called "Ten Easy Steps to Success with the Sun." This is an easy-to-understand, readable guide to what is needed to go to sea with confidence."

Plans included: Bourgenay (1:10 000) Approach to Jard-sur-Mer (1:17 500) Approach to Ars-en-Re (1:40 000) Approach to St Martin-de-Re (1:15 000) Approach to La Flotte-en-Re (1:15 000) Rade de la Pallice (1:40 000) La Rochelle and Port des Minimes (1:15 000) St-Denis-d'Oleron (1:10 000) Douhet (1:7500) Boyardville (1:10 000) Rochefort (1:10 000) Royan (1:7500) Port Medoc (1:12 500) La Gironde & La Garonne (1:200 000) Continuation to Bordeaux (1:200 000)

Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a "global ecumene," involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts. In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant contact between the emerging civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth's two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans. These oceans, along with deserts and mountains, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.

Plans included: Salcombe (1:15 000) Plymouth Sound (1:50 000) Looe (1:5000) Polperro Harbour (1:3500) Fowey Harbour and Approaches (1:10 000) Charlestown Harbour (1:5000) Mevagissey Harbour (1:3500) Falmouth Harbour (1:20 000)

Plans included: Mayflower Marina (1:5000) King Point & Millbay Marinas (1:10 000) Sutton Harbour and Queen Anne's Battery Marina (1:7500) Plymouth Yacht Haven (1:5000) Continuation of River Yealm (1:20 000) Plymouth Harbour (1:20 000) Plymouth to Saltash and Saint Germans (1:20 000)

A brand new chart for 2022. The chart covers Langstone Harbour and its approaches. It includes the latest official UKHO data, combined with additional information sourced from Imray's network to make it ideal for small craft. This chart is included in the 2200 chart pack as chart 2200.7.

This first edition chart is a replica of Imray chart 2800.13 covering the Firth of Lorn & Lismore. The chart has been designed with the Clyde Cruising Club and includes the latest official UKHO data combined with additional information sourced from Imray's network to make it ideal for small craft. This edition includes all the latest official bathymetric surveys and is printed on water resistant paper.

This first edition chart is a replica of Imray chart 2800.15 covering South Loch Linnhe and Loch Creran. The chart has been designed with the Clyde Cruising Club and includes the latest official UKHO data combined with additional information sourced from Imray's network to make it ideal for small craft. This edition includes all the latest official bathymetric surveys and is printed on water resistant paper.

Plans: Falmouth Yacht Marina Falmouth Inner Harbour Mylor Yacht Harbour