• Are you interested in getting the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation publications on your phone or tablet? 📚📲 Imray, who publish the guides with us, are working on Explore with Imray, a new digital library and social space where you can find sailing directions, approach information, marina, moorings and anchorage information, chartlets, photos and more. 💫 💫 💫 They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to accelerate the development and to give you a chance to be involved in the future of the project. Go to http://kck.st/3uWL2gR to find out more. #ExploreWithImray
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    Are you interested in getting the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation publications on your phone or tablet? 📚📲 Imray, who publish the guides with us, are working on Explore with Imray, a new digital library and social space where you can find sailing directions, approach information, marina, moorings and anchorage information, chartlets, photos and more. 💫 💫 💫 They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to accelerate the development and to give you a chance to be involved in the future of the project. Go to http://kck.st/3uWL2gR to find out more. #ExploreWithImray
  • ⛵️🌊🐬Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊🐬⛵️ Today is all about raising awareness about the wonders of the big blue 🌊 - the benefits it holds and our collective responsibility to look after it and all life within it. 🐠🐟🐳🐙🦭 Let’s protect the seas we sail and allow future generations to enjoy and benefit from them in their full glory. 💫 #unworldoceansday
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    ⛵️🌊🐬Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊🐬⛵️ Today is all about raising awareness about the wonders of the big blue 🌊 - the benefits it holds and our collective responsibility to look after it and all life within it. 🐠🐟🐳🐙🦭 Let’s protect the seas we sail and allow future generations to enjoy and benefit from them in their full glory. 💫 #unworldoceansday
  • ***NEW BOOK EDITION*** Our second edition of the popular Mediterranean Spain pilotage book is now available 📗⛵️ This revised and text updated edition covers the entire Mediterranean mainland coast of Spain from Gibraltar to the French border including: > the mountain-backed Costas del and Sol and Blanca > the expansive lagoon of the Mar Menor > the low-lying Ebro delta > the rugged Costa Brava Additionally: 🗺 Imray charts provide all the data necessary to explore this stunning coast and its hinterland 📝new plans added and other plan updates based on the latest information 📷over 100 aerial photographs showing coastline and harbour approaches ✍️an intro to the author 💯a voucher to download ID50 Imray Digital charts for the Western Mediterranean 📗 📗 📗 Check out the link in bio to purchase!
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    ***NEW BOOK EDITION*** Our second edition of the popular Mediterranean Spain pilotage book is now available 📗⛵️ This revised and text updated edition covers the entire Mediterranean mainland coast of Spain from Gibraltar to the French border including: > the mountain-backed Costas del and Sol and Blanca > the expansive lagoon of the Mar Menor > the low-lying Ebro delta > the rugged Costa Brava Additionally: 🗺 Imray charts provide all the data necessary to explore this stunning coast and its hinterland 📝new plans added and other plan updates based on the latest information 📷over 100 aerial photographs showing coastline and harbour approaches ✍️an intro to the author 💯a voucher to download ID50 Imray Digital charts for the Western Mediterranean 📗 📗 📗 Check out the link in bio to purchase!
  • 💫Meet the author Monday 💫 Steve Pickard, Mediterranean Spain Since 1973, ex-teacher, ex-systems manager and ex-yacht delivery skipper, Steve Pickard, has never been boatless due to his great passion for sailing and adventures aboard his #yacht, Hobo. 📚How long have you been an author? “I took over authorship of the #RoyalCruisingClubPF South Biscay from Captain John Lawson back in 2009. A new edition later became due. At the time, my boat, Hobo, was too deep for the Canal du Midi, so I was obliged to sail to A Coruna from my house in Beaucaire, France. When my work was done I sailed back by way of Brittany, the Solent and the canals of France. 5000 miles and 5 months later! I became author of Mediterranean Spain later - it was but a hop and a skip from the Golfe du Lyons!” ⛵️Tell us about your sailing background… “I taught myself to sail as a YM Senior where I discovered the truth of the proverb: In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King - meaning that I always stayed one page ahead of my crew in the sailing book! I took up yacht delivery when I lived in Ireland. Until then, I had never sailed on anybody else's boat. In 2000 we took off from the UK and haunted the Med until adventures in the Arctic and West Indies broadened the field.” Swipe right to see Steve’s favourite quote which he describes as: vital information for the first long voyage, or the onset of bad weather!
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    💫Meet the author Monday 💫 Steve Pickard, Mediterranean Spain Since 1973, ex-teacher, ex-systems manager and ex-yacht delivery skipper, Steve Pickard, has never been boatless due to his great passion for sailing and adventures aboard his #yacht, Hobo. 📚How long have you been an author? “I took over authorship of the #RoyalCruisingClubPF South Biscay from Captain John Lawson back in 2009. A new edition later became due. At the time, my boat, Hobo, was too deep for the Canal du Midi, so I was obliged to sail to A Coruna from my house in Beaucaire, France. When my work was done I sailed back by way of Brittany, the Solent and the canals of France. 5000 miles and 5 months later! I became author of Mediterranean Spain later - it was but a hop and a skip from the Golfe du Lyons!” ⛵️Tell us about your sailing background… “I taught myself to sail as a YM Senior where I discovered the truth of the proverb: "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King" - meaning that I always stayed one page ahead of my crew in the sailing book! I took up yacht delivery when I lived in Ireland. Until then, I had never sailed on anybody else's boat. In 2000 we took off from the UK and haunted the Med until adventures in the Arctic and West Indies broadened the field.” Swipe right to see Steve’s favourite quote which he describes as: vital information for the first long voyage, or the onset of bad weather!
  • Throwback Thursday: Did you know, the first #royalcruisingclubpf Mediterranean Spain books were written in the 1970s by author Robin Brandon - existing then as the East Spain Pilot books. The pilot books were then further advanced to later become the two ‘costas’ pairing of titles by consecutive authors, John Marchment, Graham Hutt and Oz Robinson, before finally developing into the first combined Mediterranean Spain edition with author Steve Pickard in 2017. As with all #royalcruisingclubpf nautical books and downloads, new editions are researched extensively and published to offer the most up-to-date information for ocean sailing, coastal ports and anchorages worldwide. ⛵️ ⛵️ ⛵️ Watch this space for the launch of our latest edition of Mediterranean Spain by Steve Pickard 📚⛵️🇪🇸🌊
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    Throwback Thursday: Did you know, the first #royalcruisingclubpf Mediterranean Spain books were written in the 1970s by author Robin Brandon - existing then as the East Spain Pilot books. The pilot books were then further advanced to later become the two ‘costas’ pairing of titles by consecutive authors, John Marchment, Graham Hutt and Oz Robinson, before finally developing into the first combined Mediterranean Spain edition with author Steve Pickard in 2017. As with all #royalcruisingclubpf nautical books and downloads, new editions are researched extensively and published to offer the most up-to-date information for ocean sailing, coastal ports and anchorages worldwide. ⛵️ ⛵️ ⛵️ Watch this space for the launch of our latest edition of Mediterranean Spain by Steve Pickard 📚⛵️🇪🇸🌊
  • Friend of the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation, @ben.warnick.7 tells us... “As nowadays we are using our phones more and more to navigate, I find it really helpful that the #royalcruisingclubpf books also have downloads available so you can take the resourceful information and charts with you wherever you go 😁🌎⛵️📚📲” . . . For more information and details to purchase our pilotage books, check out the link in bio ⛵️📚📲
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    Friend of the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation, @ben.warnick.7 tells us... “As nowadays we are using our phones more and more to navigate, I find it really helpful that the #royalcruisingclubpf books also have downloads available so you can take the resourceful information and charts with you wherever you go 😁🌎⛵️📚📲” . . . For more information and details to purchase our pilotage books, check out the link in bio ⛵️📚📲
  • Thursday 22nd April was #earthday2021. An important day reminding us to protect and support the natural world, to address environmental issues and make our planet more restorative and resilient for the future. Let’s all take action to do our bit to look after the beautiful planet and oceans we enjoy sailing in. Let’s #restoreourearth and protect the wildlife within it 🌎🌊🐬🦤#everydayisearthday
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    Thursday 22nd April was #earthday2021. An important day reminding us to protect and support the natural world, to address environmental issues and make our planet more restorative and resilient for the future. Let’s all take action to do our bit to look after the beautiful planet and oceans we enjoy sailing in. Let’s #restoreourearth and protect the wildlife within it 🌎🌊🐬🦤#everydayisearthday
  • Flashback Friday: Dreamy days of sailing in the Balearic Islands. Don’t we all so look forward to getting back to these beautiful cruising spots! 🤩⛵️ In @Imray's latest 🎙podcast 🎙author's of the eleventh edition of @royalcruisingclubpf Islas Baleares Pilotage Guide, David and Susie Baggaley talk about their impressive and extensive research of the Balearic Islands, where they now live on the island of Menorca. Listen out for their great top tips on best places to anchor, visit, walk, eat and much more - on all four main islands of Menorca, Mallorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, along with a number of smaller islets - as well as best time of the year to visit. Listen to the podcast via the link in our bio. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Play. 💫
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    Flashback Friday: Dreamy days of sailing in the Balearic Islands. Don’t we all so look forward to getting back to these beautiful cruising spots! 🤩⛵️ In @Imray's latest 🎙podcast 🎙author's of the eleventh edition of @royalcruisingclubpf Islas Baleares Pilotage Guide, David and Susie Baggaley talk about their impressive and extensive research of the Balearic Islands, where they now live on the island of Menorca. Listen out for their great top tips on best places to anchor, visit, walk, eat and much more - on all four main islands of Menorca, Mallorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, along with a number of smaller islets - as well as best time of the year to visit. Listen to the podcast via the link in our bio. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Play. 💫
  • Easter and Spring signals the start of a new season where a hive of activity begins. And how lucky we are for this beautifully sunny Easter weekend☀️🐣 Of course, ideally, we would like to be cruising out with our family and friends to locations like the Isles of Scilly. ⛵️🏝 The Scilly Isles are a mere 28 miles from Land’s End making a perfect extended weekend cruise. The archipelago is made up by over 50 islands and rewards visitors with some of the most beautiful scenery in England, together with bird-life and flowers of an unrivalled nature. A must for all to witness! 🌺 Navigation of these rocky islands can be challenging, even for the experienced yachtsperson, so guidance from the Isles of Scilly pilotage book is essential to have to hand. > Link to purchase in bio < Where would you like to be this Easter? Where have you missed visiting? #eastersailing #rccpilotagefoundation #imray #islesofscilly #yachtlife #coastalcruising #sailingfamily #rcc #archipelago
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    Easter and Spring signals the start of a new season where a hive of activity begins. And how lucky we are for this beautifully sunny Easter weekend☀️🐣 Of course, ideally, we would like to be cruising out with our family and friends to locations like the Isles of Scilly. ⛵️🏝 The Scilly Isles are a mere 28 miles from Land’s End making a perfect extended weekend cruise. The archipelago is made up by over 50 islands and rewards visitors with some of the most beautiful scenery in England, together with bird-life and flowers of an unrivalled nature. A must for all to witness! 🌺 Navigation of these rocky islands can be challenging, even for the experienced yachtsperson, so guidance from the Isles of Scilly pilotage book is essential to have to hand. > Link to purchase in bio < Where would you like to be this Easter? Where have you missed visiting? #eastersailing #rccpilotagefoundation #imray #islesofscilly #yachtlife #coastalcruising #sailingfamily #rcc #archipelago