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Welcome to our March Newsletter

NEW EDITIONS JUST PUBLISHED

Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers, 2025 Edition

MCA has redesigned and modernised the Code to improve its structure, ensure consistency and simplify its language. The use of recurring design features enables quicker reference and aids understanding. Users can refer to ‘How to use this document’, which outlines key features to help make the most of it.

Main updates to the 2025 Edition:

• Chapter 34: New chapter on shipyard safety and the considerations for seafarers while a ship is being repaired at a shipyard
• Chapter 22 (Annex 22.1): Standards for means of access
• Chapter 11: Safe movement on board ships during extreme weather conditions
• Chapters 9, 10, 12 and 15: Including new figure of a hammer suspension system in chapter 12
• Updated legislation references throughout.

RRP £28.20

FUTURE NEW EDITIONS

Reeds Crew Handbook 2nd Edition

Reeds Crew Handbook is the ideal primer or aide-memoire for new crew, and for anyone going on a flotilla or charter holiday, or sailing aboard a friend’s yacht for the weekend.

Both a refresher for old hands and an ideal introduction for skippers to hand to new and aspiring crew, this guide gives them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including:

Steering (both with a tiller and a wheel)
Raising, dropping and reefing a sail
Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc)
Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc)
Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall
Attaching bow and stern lines and springs
Handling an anchor
Using the radio
Basic first aid
Essential knots

Presented in bite-sized topics in a very accessible and undaunting fashion, and packed with colour illustrations to guide crew through each task, Reeds Crew Handbook is an invaluable primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized reference for experienced crew when under sail.

RRP £11.99

2120 North Sea Nieuwpoort to Den Helder Chart Pack

Part of Imray’s popular small format chart coverage for the Netherlands, this atlas is a convenient A2 format.

It includes all of the navigational charts and tidal data required for coastal passage and approach, plus a larger-format passage planning sheet for plotting routes across the North Sea.

Now includes all VTS reporting points found in these waters. 

RRP £37.50

CCC Sailing Directions Kintyre to Ardnamurchan

This cruising guide stretches northwards from the Mull of Kintyre to the Ardamurchan peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, detailing some of the finest cruising grounds to be found anywhere in the world.

Within easy reach of all the main harbours and marinas lie an abundance of lochs and islands with numerous idyllic anchorages to explore. Some of these are easy to find, others pose more of a navigational challenge and are accessed via intricate channels using a series of well-described transits, others lie beyond turbulent tidal sounds. All reward with stunning scenery and there is somewhere for everyone, whether on a first-time visit, or a return to familiar waters.

This new edition, updated by Geoff Crowley, continues the long-respected legacy of Clyde Cruising Club publications for cruising sailors. Information on harbours and marinas has been thoroughly revised, and plans have been updated throughout. New photographs have been included to help to identify key navigational features as well as to entice further exploration. References to Bob Bradfield’s useful Antares large scale charts are also included. Supplements are available to download from the club’s website.

RRP £37.50