Many nations publish Sailing Directions for their home waters, where they are the International Hydrographic Organization's ( IHO ) primary charting authority.
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Australia had its own Australian Hydrographic Service created in 1920, but the British nautical charts and sailing directions continued to be published after that time.
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This work contains numerous sailing directions, not only for shipping between Portugal and the East Indies colonies, but also between India, China and Japan.
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The area is described in NGA Pub . 161, " Sailing Directions ( Enroute ) South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand ".
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But the winds had failed; and so, too, the smart captain of the " Flying Fish " evidently thought had the Sailing Directions.
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The portolan was a realistic, detailed nautical chart, gridded by a rhumbline network with compass lines that could be used to deduce exact sailing directions between any two points.
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Having sailed to the Asia aboard Portuguese ships, Linschoten publicized the sailing directions to the East Indies that had been assiduously kept secret by the Portuguese for nearly a century.
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However, the most widely used Sailing Directions product is the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's,'Admiralty Sailing directions'( ASDs ) ( a . k . a.
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However, the most widely used Sailing Directions product is the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's,'Admiralty Sailing directions'( ASDs ) ( a . k . a.
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The Swedish yachtsmand and writer Bjorn Landstr�m also concluded, from the sailing directions given by the ancient merchant and seafarer Alexander, that Cattigara lay at the mouth of the Mekong.
