This particular chart is a good example of the superbly detailed official chart coverage available in UK waters. Make it go "Full Screen", drag and pan around, enlarge or reduce to get the view you want. Full screen charts are best enjoyed on the largest screen monitors you have !  Although online charts are "Not to be used for navigation purposes", there are plenty of uses.. read on.   Also see: Legal Stuff...Terms and Conditions

 

 

There are 1000's of pages of freely given information on this site, but FULL MEMBERS have access to another area of the site altogether.. an exclusive place where non members can't go. With over £12,000's worth of charts & tide tables viewable in some unique ways:

 

 

This is a VisiChart

 

 

For a one off non repeating fee of just £25 you can become a valued member of VisitMyHarbour (let's put that £25 into perspective...  it's the cost of a one off pub evening with friends, a few gallons of fuel, an hour or two of work.. not a big deal)

 

 

So how can this service be of use to ME ?

For yachtsmen, motorboaters, charterers, sea anglers, divers, trailer sailers and kayakers:

 

• Use the UK/Ireland streaming VisiCharts to really get a real feel for the scale of a creek, harbour or marina...before you go charging in. No other chart can do this...scroll down for samples
   
• Passage Planning:  If you get familiar with Google Earth, you can use our streaming VisiCharts to actually plan your passages from marina pontoon to sea and back into new harbours.  You lay the required charts over Google Earth (you can load mulitple charts), then use built in Google Earth features to create a series of named or numbered waypoints, measure distances, get courses...
   
• Use our standard full screen online charts (like the Falmouth one near the top of this page) to check out new locations, with marina details and contacts printed on large scale charts. Even in the pub the night before on your iPad/Android if you have a connection... scroll down to see the charts and areas available to you.
   
• Make A4 prints of portions of charts strictly for your own personal study (not for navigation, fair dealing principles apply)  See the small print (near bottom of page) for full terms and conditions
   
• The new (and not available anywhere else) 400+ official monthly tide tables will also go "Full Screen" for you, enabling you to get a full month of high/low water times on screen at once. (not iPad)
   
• WARNING: Are your paper or electronic charts dangerously out of date ?   How would you know ?  See how easily you can check if your paper charts need renewing or can be manually updated.. TSS schemes, new windfarms, buoyage changes. Use the online full screen or VisiCharts in conjunction with NTMs to correct your paper charts. (all UK charts here are less than 12 months old).
   
• Study this collection to work out which charts you really need for a passage, and which ones you can live without.
   
• Planning to charter a boat in a new area ?  Check out the cruising grounds beforehand with the online charts, get an idea of where you could go, anchor, moor up... the Google Earth versions are particularly good for really seeing what a place is like.
   
• Instant access as soon as you join
   
• Hefty discounts on our "For Navigation" products
  
  
  
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•  Do your planning anywhere with an Internet connection, home, work, or even onboard with a mobile dongle and signal.
• Trailer Sailer's...use the online charts to plan your forays...locate slipways and other useful services direct from the charts.
• Members are not just numbers, but highly valued customers, we are comitted to providing a personal service, we sort out technical problems on the phone, answer emails promptly. Our background is face to face retailing.
• More and more of our work is going behind the paywall and available to members only, once you've paid your one off subscription of £25 these are the sort of thing you will be able to download at no further cost:
• How about downloadable PDF versions of our own pilotage coverage ?    Plus big ship sailing directions.  Available to members only.

 

 

 

 

Gain instant online access to 1667 zoomify charts/plans that will fill your whole screen with chart. Make a one off payment of £25 on Barclaycard's own secure server now, NO MORE to pay....EVER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• NEW.. Now for full members we are streaming all UK/Ireland charts in a form that drape themselves over Google Earth imagery... yes our own VisiCharts, but ONLINE.
   
• Truly visualise your destination and know what to expect, other charts can't really help.  The combination of satellite imagery and overlaid chart is stunning.
   
• Quilted chart layers make ordinary raster charts behave like vector charts, but with far more detail.  No need to keep changing charts, the best scale pre-loaded chart for the depth of view is presented automatically.
   
• Familiarity:  Why use a strange, new, and difficult to get used to program... VisiCharts harness the powerful geo-browser engine in Google Earth, a tool you probably already use.   Tools already built into GE can handle simple routes and waypoints. 
   
• For PCs and Macs, these will not work on mobile devices
   
• Choose and view your selected charts in conjunction with satellite imagery, with variable transparency. You need Google Earth already installed (Tip..find that transparency slider)
   
• Load up multiple charts... they meld themselves together  ..by magic !
   
• Tilt and rotate the view for 3D effects

 

If you already have Google Earth installed you can try a sample VisiChart now.  Start up Google Earth, check it's working OK, then...click the blue marble icon below:

 

Let's find out some more and try some other samples

Standard full screen charts in the members area

PC/Mac, click icon below to view several "Full Screen" samples

NEW view zoomable charts on your iPad /iPhone (you can't position yourself on these with GPS) All charts in members area have HTML5 versions

 

 

 

 

 

Not just 100% chart coverage of the UK and Ireland, now other international areas in "Full Screen" zoomify format and HTML5 iPad compatible versions. These are proper official raster charts, same as the paper ones.
 

See small print (near bottom of page) for listings and full details

 

 

There are plenty of sites online where you can get the next 7 days tide predictions, such as Easy Tide, BBC, etc.  There are also sites dotted about (such as certain marina websites) that will give you the whole years predictions for that one particular location. Now VisitMyHarbour have launched another first:  Full monthly tide tables for the year ahead for over 400 UK/Ireland locations, all shown in that versatile "Full Screen" Zoomify viewer:

What's this ?...    Double click image to enlarge, click the button on the far right of the viewer itself to go FULL SCREEN

                                                                    Click the button above ^
Not for Navigation Purposes 

Make the viewer go "full Screen"... now drag the tables around and see how you can get a whole months tide times showing all at once.  This one is for Blyth in the NE. 

Casual site visitors can see these tide tables too, but thay are restricted to viewing them in a small viewer only.  Members automatically get FULL SCREEN access to all these tide tables.  This enables them to be seen as they were designed to be seen.

Compatibility: PC/Mac/Android with Flash player.  Not compatible with iPad/phone just yet.

VisitMyHarbour is an award-winning website, that has been providing free UK pilotage information and charts to small craft mariners for 4 years now. VisitMyHarbour has gone from strength to strength, the free harbour coverage has almost doubled and you will find us well indexed on Google. The website attracts between 1100 and 1600 unique visitors a day. VMH has attracted nearly 2000 paid members since 2010 (inc. some very well known yachting names) and who's interests range from hot air balooning to navigating in the Fastnet. VisitMyHarbour is an approved Trading Standards Scheme member.  The "Buy With Confidence" logo is not given lightly... Our service is second to none, see some recent comments:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"..., you are wonderful. This kind of service is something I have not met for years in the yachting world where everybody appears to have been born with all nautical knowledge possible and look down upon people who are still at their first steps - elderly though they may be. But if one starts sailing at 55, one is bound to feel apprehensive and feeble at many nautical issues. One wants to look ahead as far is possible in order to be able to tackle only those difficulties that are not to be foreseen whatsoever.
Again, thank you"


"Wow,  That's what I call a fast service! Thanks very much,..."


"Thanks very much for your very prompt and considered reply.....it's that 'John Lewis' standard of customer service again that you're becoming known for."

"...– bless you – especially for your honesty – so many people these days attempt to flannel their way out of things it is refreshing to get an “Oops, sorry” reply.  And of course – me being me I assumed that I was being dense!!"

 

Our all-important chart data is licensed directly and updated regularly.  VisitMyHarbour is UK based at: Kenneth Court, Union Rd, Ryde on the Isle of Wight, our customer service number is 01983 567866, with lines manned from 10 AM to 6 PM weekdays.

“VisitMyHarbour.com: An absolute treasure trove of charts and port descriptions for anyone navigating around the coast of the UK”   Steve Harris. Maritime insurance expert, 20 years as a marine underwriter at Lloyd's.

"Very informative, the need to knows and the nice to knows.  Im planning on kicking off next season with a trip down from Lowestoft. These pages will be at the center of my planning."  J.P

"Hi there...this is great information, but I have only just discovered you - are you new? When did you start? Did you have charts on the site last year? It is an excellent quick reference."  MJ

 

“Finally wearing my RNLI Sea Safety Hat I would suggest that your software and chart facility provides an excellent planning facility , quality passage plans are an important ingredient to Sea Safety”   David Humphrey, Hon. Sec Burnham-on-Sea Motor Boat and Sailing Club

 "Well done and many thanks for making this service available at a sensible price. It's long overdue and extremely welcome!"   Mr B.P.

"...I must say absolutely superb presentation. The best anti-aliasing I have ever seen. Prefer the full screen viewer."   Mr S.M

"Really enjoying the charts, and dreaming. Thanks."  Mr C.

"I have been very taken with the online charts of UK waters available from a website called VisitMyharbour..."   Julian Swindell...See Julian's Blog