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Secrets of the St. Lawrence
Fore to aft
Fore to aft (PDF; 336KB)
| Subject | Page |
|---|---|
| Air | 8, 9, 27, 36 |
| Air masses | 27, 36 |
| Anvil-shaped cumulonimbus | 25 |
| Bad weather | 26 |
| Barometric pressure | 28, 33, 36 |
| Beaufort scale | 32 |
| Beethoven | 19 |
| Bibliography | 34 |
| Boiling water | 12 |
| Canadian Coast Guard | 34 |
| Canadian Hydrographic Service | 16, 17 |
| Chaos | 12 |
| Clear skies | 10 |
| Compass points | 16 |
| Contents | 2 |
| Contributors | 35 |
| Currents | 12 |
| Dangerous | 12, 14, 36 |
| Depth | 3, 13 |
| Distance | 3 |
| Environment Canada | 29 |
| Evening | 10 |
| Fetch | 11, 14 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 34, 35 |
| Fog | 24, 26, 36 |
| Foreword | Introduction |
| Freezing spray | 30 |
| Fronts | 26, 36 |
| Glossary | 36 |
| Handy references | 33 |
| Hazardous conditions | 7 |
| High | 27, 36 |
| Ice | 31 |
| Introduction | 4 |
| July, August | 11, 29 |
| June, September | 29 |
| Katastrophic | 10 |
| Lee effects | 14 |
| 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 index | 18 |
| Loch Ness Monster | 12 |
| Low | 25, 26, 27, 29, 36 |
| Marine charts | 16, 34 |
| Marine warnings | 30 |
| Meteorology courses | 34 |
| Millibars | 3, 28, 33, 36 |
| Morning | 9 |
| Mouth of the Saguenay | 7 |
| Nights | 10 |
| Northwest gyre | 36 |
| Obstacles vertical cliff wharf | 8 8 |
| Ocean | 11 |
| Offshore | 8, 9, 14, 16 |
| Rain | 26 |
| Rising tide | 12 |
| Sailing directions | 17, 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 scale | 33 |
| Shelter | 8 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Squalls | 25, 26, 36 |
| Standardization | 3, 16, 27 |
| Storms | 29 |
| Sudden storm | 28 |
| Suggested publications | 34 |
| Sun | 9, 10 |
| Swell | 11 |
| Symbols | 15 |
| Thanks | 35 |
| Thunderstorm | 25, 26 |
| Tide and current tables | 17, 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 |
| Training | 34 |
| Traps | 13 |
| Vessel icing | 30 |
| Vessels - length | 17 |
| 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 direction | 16 |
| Wind speed | 17 |
| Working together | 35 |
- 1. Fore to aft
- 2. What Cartier missed out on
- 3. Conversion
- 4. The Secrets of the St Lawrence
- 5. The wind in your sails - Hard a-port!
- 6. The wind in your sails - Fast or slow?
- 7. The wind in your sails - The wind's paths
- 8. The wind in your sails - Against the wall
- 9. The wind in your sails - Solar energy
- 10. The wind in your sails - Under the stars
- 11. The wind and the waves - The windway
- 12. The wind and the waves - Wave wars
- 13. The wind and the waves - Graveyards
- 14. The wind and the waves - Conflicting seas
- 15. Symbols
- 16. The St Lawrence, from 1 to... - Legend
- 17. The St Lawrence, from 1 to... - Calling all sailors
- 18. The St Lawrence, from 1 to... Hot spots
- 19. Local listings - Québec - Pointe-des-Monts
- 20. Local listings - Pointe-des-Monts - Cap Whittle
- 21. Local listings - Cap Whittle - Blanc-Sablon
- 22. Local listings - Gaspésie - Baie des Chaleurs
- 23. Local listings - Îles de la Madeleine
- 24. Sailors take warning - White-outs
- 25. Sailors take warning - The sky above us
- 26. Sailors take warning - Keeping a weather eye
- 27. Sailors take warning - Fair weather and foul
- 28. Sailors take warning - The unexpected
- 29. The four seasons - Wind aplenty
- 30. The four seasons - Vessel icing
- 31. The four seasons - Ice cycle
- 32. Extra - Beaufort
- 33. Extra - Handy references
- 34. Extra - Old Salts and Sea-dogs
- 35. Extra - The crew
- 36. Extra - A to Z
- 37. Extra - Stations
- 38. Extra - Areas
- 39. Credits
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