GPS Coordinates of buoys in Cork Harbour

lochgarman512

Just wondering if anyone would be able to tell me the coordinates for various buoys in Cork Harbour. I'm due to row the Ocean to City in a few weeks in a boat without a cox, so I'll be navigating myself with a GPS and looking over my shoulder.
The Buoys needed are as follows: Crosshaven C4, Crosshaven C2, Crosshaven C2A, W1(Near Roches Point), E1(Near Roches Point), 3, 5 , 8, (Last three from around Roches point to Spike Island), Spit Bank Lighthouse, 15, 17, R1, R9, R13.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Tabnabs

Sorry, I can't help you (other than to suggest getting a chart and taking the information from that), but would like to point out an obvious flaw in this strategy; putting the waypoints into your GPS means that you will consciously be heading directly for the buoy (distance, bearing info etc.).

It's probably wise to build in a margin of error/safety to stop this happening, especially if you are looking astern predominantly.

lochgarman512

Thanks for the reply. I'm well used to navigating with a GPS while rowing. I more use the waypoints to head in the right direction until I'm within 150m of the buoy and then judge my bearing by sight.

Any idea what price the cheapest charts would be? Since I'll only be using them once.

Tabnabs

About 30/40 quid for the whole river I'd imagine. If you're only going to be using them once, then could you borrow them for an hour or so from a friend/club/friendly skipper?

Cedrus

The lights are Here so spit bank is covered, but not the buoys. I thought I'd seen them before but can't figure out how to toggle them on. If you can get visuals on vessels with AIS Transponders (the harbour tugs and pilot seem to have them) and cross reference it you might get a rough set of co-ords.

murphym7

Tabnabs wrote: »

Sorry, I can't help you (other than to suggest getting a chart and taking the information from that), but would like to point out an obvious flaw in this strategy; putting the waypoints into your GPS means that you will consciously be heading directly for the buoy (distance, bearing info etc.).

It's probably wise to build in a margin of error/safety to stop this happening, especially if you are looking astern predominantly.

There are two for the harbour. I think 1777 would cover you, altough anything further up than Monkstown ish you will need 1773 as well.

Atlantic Dawn

If you go www.marinetraffic.com the map gives gps positions of most buoys.

Daibheid

I've a Magellan XL400 programmed with the major nav aids in Ireland. I've used it around Cork harbour and it seemed to have any buoys I checked in passing. The battery is dead and I haven't gotten round to replacing it but I have the charger. I'll see if it powers up on the charger without the battery. If you're still stuck you could borrow it to get the co-ords of the buoys

Croc

The attached should be accurate as I took them from a Navionics Chart, I had to attach it as a word document otherwise it looses the formatting when i copy and past it here