Coordinates for Marine buoys (east Coast Ireland)

Cionn

Hi I have been looking for a simple list of the official navigation buoys alone the east coast of Ireland.   I am simply looking for the  names and co-ordinates in an electrionic format.   I would have thought this is a simple find,  but I can no seem to source them from anywhere.   Any links of advice would be appreciated.
Purpose:  imparting into a Raymarine GPS unit on a 30 foot cruiser
thanks in advance.

Cionn

neris

there would be alot of nav marks along the east coast, are you looking for every single mark? You would be able to get their positions off a chart and then input the lat & long

Cionn

Hi Thanks for the reply,   I am looking only for the main ones,  generally we just sail down from dublin to Cork.   I was hoping to get a listing (electronically) and delete the marks not required.   I can go to a chart but i thought there may be a more efficient electronic repository that I can download and edit so that I only have to import the ones that I want.    

Cionn

fergal.b

You could try the navionics app. https://www.navionics.com/gbr/





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Cionn

thanks I will give that a go.  i naively thought that there might be a simple directory list that I could download and edit.  I will take a look at the app and post back if it works for me.
Thanks

Tabnabs

Buoys are notoriously unreliable when it comes to any sort of accuracy and their use in navigation is quite basic. All to often, people have put the lat and long of a buoy into the sat nav only to steam/sail right into it. There are probably all sort so of legal and litigious reasons why a "simple list" does not exist (and if it did, could you trust it?)

Cionn

Thanks I suppose I should be clearer on the use of the data,  the boat we use is about 30 foot , and there is no autopilot.  all I am looking for is somewhat accurate coordinates to facilitate way-points for deliveries from Dublin to Cork. At no stage will these coordinates be plugged into a electronic device that steers the boat, its more of a guide.   I

I may have a lead on a solution and if I get it I will post back here.

Cheers all

neris

Plot a course on a chart and take points along the chart and pit them in the GPS and then you can steer to the GPS read out and compass

Hifive

Here's Waterford to Dublin for you.
Grattan bridge (Waterford) to O'Connell bridge in Dublin
I used these about 10 years ago for a charity rib run to raise funds for Temple Street Hospital.

Cionn

Hifive wrote: »

Here's Waterford to Dublin for you.
Grattan bridge (Waterford) to O'Connell bridge in Dublin
I used these about 10 years ago for a charity rib run to raise funds for Temple Street Hospital.

Thanks for that,   I will convert that to a text file and when I import it to the Raymarine device that we use I will post the file here.

Regarding  the other post suggesting I go to the charts,  that I can do but in reality with two working parents and 3 kids the time to do that just isn't readily available, hence I was looking for a simple solution (or what I thought should be a simple solution)