Ocean Pilot Charts


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Dick
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Hi all,
We did not use Ocean Pilot Charts all that much for fundamental guidance, but they did get referred to before any ocean passage and were fun to have aboard for the occasional answering of questions that inevitably come up among sailors sharing a beer. And there is a wealth of data in those charts in addition to expected wind speeds/directions on a monthly chart.
Jimmy Cornell has done his own and they can be found at: Paradise Cay Publishing in the revised and updated edition of the "Cornell’s Ocean Atlas, Pilot Charts for all Oceans of the World". That, and his updated “Routes” book deserve a place on any widely wandering boat.
My best, Dick Stevenson, s/v Alchemy

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Roberto.Ritossa
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Hello, 
that data is very likely to be a compilation of COGOW data:
http://cioss.ceoas.oregonstate.edu/cogow/index.html
it reflects wind statistics taken from scatterometer satellite, QuickScat at the time (it has been replaced since).
Just choose the bi-weekly period of the year and click on the map,  Wind data is more detailed than usual Pilot Charts, and is available in original observation counts, tabular form or graphical form, example


regards, r.

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