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Secrets of the St. Lawrence

Fore to aft

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SubjectPage
Air8, 9, 27, 36
Air masses27, 36
Anvil-shaped cumulonimbus25
Bad weather26
Barometric pressure28, 33, 36
Beaufort scale32
Beethoven19
Bibliography34
Boiling water12
Canadian Coast Guard34
Canadian Hydrographic Service16, 17
Chaos12
Clear skies10
Compass points16
Contents2
Contributors35
Currents12
Dangerous12, 14, 36
Depth3, 13
Distance3
Environment Canada29
Evening10
Fetch11, 14
Fisheries and Oceans Canada34, 35
Fog24, 26, 36
ForewordIntroduction
Freezing spray30
Fronts26, 36
Glossary36
Handy references33
Hazardous conditions7
High27, 36
Ice31
Introduction4
July, August11, 29
June, September29
Katastrophic10
Lee effects14
Local listings
     index
     introduction
     rules of the game
     Cap Whittle to Blanc-Sablon
     Gaspésie and Baie des Chaleurs
     Îles de la Madeleine
     Pointe-des-Monts to Cap Whittle
     Québec to Pointe-des-Monts
15 to 23
18
17
16, 17
21
22
23
20
19
Local listings index18
Loch Ness Monster12
Low25, 26, 27, 29, 36
Marine charts16, 34
Marine warnings30
Meteorology courses34
Millibars3, 28, 33, 36
Morning9
Mouth of the Saguenay7
Nights10
Northwest gyre36
Obstacles
     vertical cliff
     wharf
 
8
8
Ocean11
Offshore8, 9, 14, 16
Rain26
Rising tide12
Sailing directions17, 34
Sea
     - breaking
     - calm
     - choppy
     - confused
     - cross
     - dangerous
     - fetch
     - swell
     - violent
     - wind waves
36
13
12
14
14
11
12
11, 14
11
11
11
Seastate scale33
Shelter8
Speed3
Squalls25, 26, 36
Standardization3, 16, 27
Storms29
Sudden storm28
Suggested publications34
Sun9, 10
Swell11
Symbols15
Thanks35
Thunderstorm25, 26
Tide and current tables17, 33
Topography
     banks
     cape
     cliffs/underwater cliffs
     islands
     mountain chain
     peninsula
     point/underwater point
     river mouths
     rivers
     shoals
     shores
     underwater mountain
     valleys
7
13
14
8, 13, 14
5, 7, 13
7
8
5, 14
7, 9, 13
6, 7, 9, 12, 13
5, 13
5, 6, 7, 13
14
9, 10
Training34
Traps13
Vessel icing30
Vessels - length17
Waves
     approaching from an angle
     breaking
     chop
     confused
     cross-current
     crests
     fetch
     line of surf
     reflection effect
     refraction effect
     rip
     significant wave height
     steep
     water breaking over rocks
11
14
12, 13
12, 16
12
12
14
11
13
14
14
12, 16
33, 36
11, 12, 16
12
Weather
     forecast areas
     forecasts
     weather reporting stations
 
38
33
37
Weatheradio
     frequencies
     transmitters
36
38
38
Wind
     acceleration
     anabatic
     band
     barrier effects
     Beaufort scale
     behaviour
     bouncing
     cannon
     channelling
     cliff
     convergence
     corner
     deviation
     direction
     divergence
     drainage wind
     fetch
     forced into a narrow passage
     funnelling
     gust
     high above the Earth
     katabatic
     land breeze
     lee effects
     local deviation
     local
     on the St Lawrence
     opposing current
     over land
     over water
     perpendicular
     resistance
     sea breeze
     seasons
     shifting to the left
     shuddering
     slower to the right
     slowing down
     speed
     scale
     standard for local listings
     striking at an angle
     strong gusts
     strong winds
     summer
     turbulence
     wind shift

6, 7, 8
9
6
18
32
5
8
7
7
8
6
5
5
16
6
6
11
7
7
7
5
10
10
14
7
11
29
12
5
5
9
5, 6
9
29
5
10
5
5, 6
11, 33
32
17
8
10
36
29
8
11
Wind direction16
Wind speed17
Working together35

 

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