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Magdalen Islands, Cap-aux-Meules, Chemin du Phare, tail of storms, winds and rough seas . At Baie-Trinité, the Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse, a National historic site of Canada, was built in 1829-1830 on a point that ancient geographers, since Samuel de Champlain (1567-1655) himself, classified as the demarcation point between the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Jacques Cartier Strait (French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier) is an arm of the sea located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, between the shore of Côte-Nord region and the North of Anticosti Island, in Quebec, Canada. [2][3] The other arm of the sea is the Honguedo Strait located on the south side of Anticosti Island and and the Gaspé Peninsula.
Sailing Directions are written directions that describe the routes to be taken by boats and ships during coastal navigation and port approaches. There are also products known as Sailing Directions, which are books written by various Hydrographic Offices throughout the world. They are known as Pilot Books, because they provide local knowledge of ...
CHS is a world leader in the adoption of hydrographic survey technology, as well as in research and development. With responsibility for charting the world's longest coastline (243,792 kilometres) as well as 6.55 million square kilometres of continental shelf and territorial waters (second largest in the world), including extensive inland waterways such as the St. Lawrence Seaway, CHS ...
L'Étang-du-Nord is a village in the municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It is part of the Magdalen Islands archipelago, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. In February 2021, the Municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine [2] made amendments to Zoning Plan No. 2010-08, the amendments affect the village of L'Étang-du-Nord, they ...
Sail Canada (formerly the Canadian Yachting Association) [1] is Canada's governing body for the sport of sailing. [2] Sail Canada is a "Member National Authority" of World Sailing . [ 3 ] Organization of sailing in Canada is divided into four groups: yacht clubs , Provincial Sailing Associations, class associations, and Sail Canada itself.
In Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Notice to Mariners publication informs mariners of important navigational safety matters affecting Canadian Waters. This electronic publication is published on a monthly basis and can be downloaded from the Notices to Mariners (NOTMAR) Web site. [2] The information in the Notice to Mariners is formatted ...
Rutter (nautical) A rutter is a mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime navigation. It was known as a periplus ("sailing-around" book) in classical antiquity and a portolano ("port book") to medieval Italian sailors in the ...