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Cruising New Caledonia

Guide Nautique Nouvelle Calédonie en français annuaire du tourisme nouvelle caledonie

 

Cruising Guide New Caledonia, Guide des mouillages Nouvelle Calédonie

WHAT'S ON THE CRUISING GUIDE TO NEW CALEDONIA?

This high speed, interactive electronic cruising guide operates on any Windows system starting with Windows 98 right through to Vista . It runs from the CD or it can be copied to the Hard Drive.

Completely updated and revised in 2008.

Version 3 was released on 15 December 2008.

During 2008 we have re-visited and re-photographed 149 anchorages in New Caledonia and created 208 GPS routes to guide you around this fabulous south Pacific cruising area.

What's on the Cruising Guide?

  • 60 photo charts created from Space or Aerial photos of all of New Caledonia, including the Recifs de Entrecasteaux, the Loyalty Islands and the Isle of Pines.
  • 801 full color photos of anchorages, approaches, points of interest, coral reefs, beaches, including 360° and Virtual Reality Sphere images of New Caledonia's lagoon.
  • 149 photo charts for every practical New Caledonia anchorage, including an overview, depths and navigational aids, sailing directions withGPS routes and approach photos, GPS positions of the best anchoring locations with photos of the anchorage and points of interest that often include virtual reality images of the beaches, coral reefs, and scenic overviews.
  • 208 GPS verified routes and sailing directions between anchorages, including ocean passes, navigation through the lagoons of New Caledonia and anchorage-to-anchorage routes for day-hopping around all of New Caledonia.
  • A program to upload the routes to your GPS or convert the routes to a format that your computer uses to communicate with your GPS or plotter.
  • Ocean Routes to and from New Caledonia with tips on passages and weather windows.
  • The 2008 location of lights, markers, leads and buoys with lights that flash with the correct sequence and timing and the distance covered by the lights shown on the satellite and aerial photos.
  • List of all the official French hydrographic charts.
  • Ports of Entry, Customs, Quarantine, and Visa information.
  • Weather information on New Caledonia including month by month time lapse atmospheric images for a whole year.
  • Critical health information including information on dangerous marine animals and recommended treatments..
  • Cultural tips important for cruising in remote areas.
  • Supplies, services, marina information.
  • Radio Communication services.
  • Mobile phone and TV reception (or lack of it) in the anchorages
  • NEW - you can now jump from one photo-chart to the next by clicking on the edge in the direction you want to go.

AN ENTIRELY NEW EXPERIENCE IN CRUISING GUIDES

Over the past 8 years our Cruising Guide to Vanuatu available from www.cruising-vanuatu.com has been hailed as the best cruising guide ever produced. Well, even though we've continually upgraded the Vanuatu guide, this one is better.

We did the first cruising guide to New Caledonia on CD ROM in 2001. It was a digitized version of the well known Cruising Guide book that has been sold in New Caledonia for years. But, when we started using the guide ourselves we quickly discovered it had many problems.

For one thing the old guide did not show you how to get into many anchorages, let alone navigate between them. For another, the sketch maps often had little resemblance to the real world. But worse, the latitudes and longitudes offered were taken from charts and were not WGS84 compliant. Put these coordinates into your GPS and you'll be anchoring on reefs, in the middle of islands, or out in the ocean. The charts the original authors used for the waypoints had IGN72 and even older geodesics - but there is no indication of which version of which charts were used so it is impossible to apply a correction. Some of the waypoints used in the book from the NE part of Grande Terre were taken from charts done in the 1800's with the prime meridian through Paris, not Greenwich, England - and are almost a degree of longitude wrong. We withdrew the CD-Rom version of the book as soon as we discovered these problems.

For an example of the difference between the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia book and the Nautical Guide to New Caledonia click here.

CRUISING THE SOUTH PACIFIC FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

cruising the south pacific

Frederique and I have been cruising the south Pacific aboard our 44' Cutter Moira since 1976. We first came to New Caledonia in 1981 and have made over 40 blue water passages between New Caledonia and other countries (Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa). As a Ph.D. marine scientist, I worked on environmental and resource issues throughout the South Pacific for over 20 years and was especially active in the development of interactive Geographic Information Systems using aerial and satellite photography.

I have contacts with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the government information and survey departments in many of the Pacific islands and we have worked closely with the key departments of the New Caledonia and French government agencies, including the Direction des Infrastructures de La Topographie et des Transports Terrestres (D.I.T.T.T.) Bureau de la Cartographie and the Service Phares et Balises, the CenNational d'Etudes Spaciales (CNES) and the Service des Methodes Administratives de l'Informatique (SMAI).

After our experiences reality testing the existing cruising guides, Freddy and I decided to produce the most advanced, most user friendly, and most accurate cruising guides ever created - based on satellite and aerial imagery and advanced geographic information systems. We did Vanuatu first.

A NEW KIND OF INTERACTIVE VISITORS GUIDE

Rocket Guide to New Caledonia

When we introduced the Cruising Guide to Vanuatu in 2002. It was a great success and within a year almost every boat arriving in Vanuatu had a copy of our guide.

The tourism offices of the governments of Vanuatu and New Caledonia were so impressed with this guide they asked us if we could produce a similar guide covering all the things to do, places to stay and general points of interest for touism in these countries. Sort of like a cruising guide for travel agents so they could become familiar with the tourism products they sold.

In cooperation with the Vanuatu and New Caledonia tourism offices and We produced the Rocket Guide to Vanuatu and then the Rocket Guide to New Caledonia. We now distribute 40,000 copies a year of our tourism guides to travel professionals and travelers from around the world.

Meanwhile, starting in 2002, we obtained satellite and aerial photographic coverage of every meter of New Caledonia's fabulous coastline, bays, creeks, and coral reefs. We explored and surveyed the anchorages aboard our 44' cutter, Moira. We analyzed the existing French hydrographic charts and discovered some of the charts for remote parts of New Caledonia are very hard to find, some are outdated, almost all have outdated geodesics, there is very little detailed information of anchorages suitable for yachts and all the charts now cost over US$50 each.

We compared the exquisitely done older charts with the modern ones, and charts of differing scales with each other and with our own test soundings and real-time GPS positioning. We checked with the service that installs and maintains the lights and markers for the latest navaids and subscribed to the Notices to Navigators. We talked with other cruisers about their experiences and issues while cruising New Caledonia.

 

THE ULTIMATE CRUISING GUIDE

cruising guide new caledonia two CD-ROM set

Six years after we started, we bring you the ultimate cruising guide - the Nautical Rocket Guide to New Caledonia 2009.

The Nautical Rocket Guide to New Caledonia lets you see exactly where every anchorage is from satellite and aerial views. It gives suggested GPS routes to go between one anchorage and the next and instructions for navigating in the lagoon and through the many passes in the barrier reef. The GPS points have been triple-checked and can be uploaded directly to your GPS to give you SUGGESTED guide points for routes and anchorages (The photo charts and GPS waypoints are NOT intended to substitute for official charts and you will have to agree to use the information as a non-guaranteed general guide. Prudent mariners must always cross check their navigation with all available sources and keep a careful watch.).

The guide provides detailed information on routes and anchorages throughout New Caledonia plus information on ports of entry, clearance formalities, weather, making passages to and from New Caledonia, tides, aids to navigation, official listing of marine charts, fuel, yacht services, communications, health, parks and reserves, tips for safe navigation and anchoring in coral reef environments, dive spots, beaches and other points of information.

The Nautical Rocket Guide works on Windows XP to Vista. It does not work on MACINTOSH computers. The cruising guide needs to be activated. After activation, you can load the guide onto your hard drive or it can operate straight from the CD-ROM.

The tourism Rocket Guide to New Caledonia works on Mac or Windows and does not require activation.

We supply the Nautical and the Tourism Rocket Guides to New Caledonia as a single package for US$150, including shipping.

There is absolutely no other way you can get this kind of high quality information about cruising and touring New Caledonia. If you already have the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia book or the pirate version of the CD made from this book and want to see a comparison between the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia book and the new Nautical Guide to New Caledonia Click Here.

We also offer a 4-CD set of the Nautical and Tourism guides for both New Caledonia and Vanuatu for US$225. With this set you will have access to detailed information on cruising from Ile des Pins in the south of New Caledonia to the Torres Islands in the north of Vanuatu.

To see Screen shots of the guide (reduced in size and clarity to make them faster to download) Start Here.

For information on how to use the cruising guide, Click Here

Order your copy right now - this guide is a two CD set including the Nautical Rocket Guide to New Caledonia and the Tourism Rocket Guide to New Caledonia. US$165 for the 2 CD set.

If you are also planning to cruise Vanuatu, we offer a 4 CD set that includes the New Caledonia guides plus the latest Nautical Rocket Guide to Vanuatu CD and it's companion Rocket Guide to Vanuatu. US$245 for the 4 CD set.

Not home? If you are cruising and want us to send the guides to an address that is not the same as your credit card address just add the alternative shipping address in the "additional information" box on the Paypal checkout series AND send us an email to let us know where you want it sent at the same time you make your order.

A word of caution here, it may take 3 to 4 weeks to arrive so don't send an address of a marina where you will be leaving within a month. Also, sending the guides to a marina address where the mail is "available" to anyone who walks into the office is a bit risky even though we send your guides by registered mail to any marina address.

For upgrades from older licensed versions of our guide click here

Expect a delivery time by priority air mail of three to six weeks depending on where you are ordering from. We post the guides the same day we get the order but the postal service has become unbelievably slow to deliver anything these days.

The Nautical Rocket Guides to both Vanuatu and New Caledonia are also available at the following locations:

Noumea Yacht Services in Noumea, New Caledonia,

Yachting World's Cyber Connect Cafe in Port Vila, Vanuatu

South Sea Shipping in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Boat Books in New Zealand
Boat Books
Limited 22 Westhaven Drive, Auckland City, New Zealand
Phone -64 9 358 5691; fax -64 9 358 5817 crew@boatbooks.co.nz

TransPacific in New Zealand 121 Beaumont Street, Westhaven, Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: +64 09 303 1459
Toll free: 0508 CHARTS (0508 242 787) or 0800 4 A CHART (0800 422 427)
Fax: +64 09 307 8170
Email: sales@transpacific.co.nz

Boat Books Australia
Sydney Shop:
31 Albany St, Crows Nest
      NSW 2065 AUSTRALIA
      T: +61 2 9439 1133
      F: +61 2 9439 8517

Boat Books Australia
Victoria Shop:
        214 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda
        VIC 3182 AUSTRALIA
        T: +61 3 9525 3444
        F: +61 3 9525 3355

Boat Books Australia
Queensland Shop:
      109 Albert St, Brisbane
      QLD 4000 AUSTRALIA
      T: +61 7 3229 6427
      F: +61 7 3221 9391

Activation

The guide needs to be activated on your computer - for details on activation click here

 

 

 

 

SITE MAP FOR CRUISING NEW CALEDONIA

Welcome to cruising New Caledonia
What's on the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia?
Screenshots of the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia
Using the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia
Activating the Cruising Guide to New Caledonia
Contact us about Cruising New Caledonia
Internet Sites about cruising in New Caledonia
New Caledonia Notice to Mariners

SAILING TO NEW CALEDONIA

New Caledonia Marine Weather Forecasts
Passages to and from New Caledonia
Flights to New Caledonia
Flights within New Caledonia
New Caledonia Rental Cars and ground transport
New Caledonia Ports of Entry and Entry formalities

NEW CALEDONIA NAUTICAL FACILITIES

New Caledonia Yacht Charters
New Caledonia Yacht Services and Yacht Agents in Noumea
New Caledonia Marinas
New Caledonia Chandleries
New Caledonia Shipyards
Yacht and Sail Repairs and Services

NAUTICAL POINTS OF INTEREST FOR NEW CALEDONIA

New Caledonia Tides
New Caledonia visas
Internet access for yachts in New Caledonia
Crew arriving and departing by plane
Mobile phones in New Caledonia
Postal Services and stamps
New Caledonia Money and Banks
Internet sites about cruising and yachting in New Caledonia and the South Pacific

CRUISING NEW CALEDONIA

A Cruising Adventure in New Caledonia

 

 

Approach to Kebuni Anchorage in SE New Caledonia. Approach to Kebuni Anchorage in SE New Caledonia. Approach to Kebuni Anchorage in SE New Caledonia. Approach to Kebuni Anchorage in SE New Caledonia.