IMRAY or Reeds Almanac?
27 de abril de 2026 · 22 min · 895 visualizações · Brest, France
Man holds 2026 cruising and nautical almanacs aboard boat
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Leon Schulz compares the Reeds Nautical Almanac and the Imray Cruising Almanac side by side in Brest, using a planned passage south through Raz de Sein to Audierne as a live worked example.▶ 0:27 The Imray almanac is physically larger in height and width but thinner, with a strong emphasis on charts over text; the Reeds is thicker, text-heavy, and closely mirrors RYA course material.▶ 2:27 For tidal stream interpretation at Raz de Sein, the Reeds uses red/blue spring-neap day markers and a tidal curve, while the Imray uses French tidal coefficients (mean spring = 95, mean neap = 45) printed in a separate annual tide-tables booklet — a distinction Schulz finds more intuitive for gauging whether conditions exceed mean spring.▶ 11:10 On 19 April the coefficient of 104 indicates currents exceeding 4.2 knots through Raz de Sein.▶ 10:56 For secondary-port calculations at Audierne, the Imray simplifies the time and height differences compared to the Reeds interpolation tables.▶ 13:49 The Imray's tidal atlases are consolidated at the back of the book and printed larger (four diagrams per page versus six), making them easier to locate.▶ 6:21 The Reeds includes marina facilities, airline contacts, and phone numbers useful to British sailors; the Imray omits most of that, treating Google as the substitute.▶ 16:49 Imray's annual tide booklet can be bought separately, making the main almanac reusable for two or three years.▶ 9:49 Sailors trained through RYA courses will find the Reeds immediately familiar, since RYA syllabuses are built around it.▶ 21:09
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