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Secrets of the St. Lawrence
Extra - Old Salts and Sea-dogs
Reference works consulted
- Climatological Charts of the St Lawrence
Environment Canada, Québec Region, 1984 - Comment descendre et remonter du Saguenay en passant par la Petite rivière Saint-François
Commander Jules DesChamps, CPS - Douglas seastate scale
Dictionnaire de l'Océan, Conseil international de la langue française - Paris, France 1989 - East Coast Marine Weather Manual
Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, 1989 - Gulf of St Lawrence
Notes. Ice Climatology, Environment Canada - Gulf of St Lawrence Marine Weather Guide
Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, 1991 - Le français au bureau
Cajolet-Laganière, Hélène, Les Publications du Québec, 1988 - Le Guide nautique de la Côte-Nord
Club nautique de Sept-Îles inc. - Marine Weather Hazards Manual (West Coast)
Environment Canada, 1990 - Météorologie marine
R. Mayençon, Éditions Maritime & d'Outre-Mer, 1982 - Nautical Charts
Hydrographic Service of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Répertoire toponymique du Québec
Commission de toponymie du Québec, 1991 - Sailing Directions - St Lawrence River and Gulf
Hydrographic Service of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Yachtsman's Guide of the Saint-Laurent
Québec Sailing Federation - Weather at Sea
David Houghton and Fred Sanders, Highmark Publishing Ltd, 1988
Suggested publications
- Connaître la Météorologie
Richard Leduc et Raymond Gervais - Learning Weather
Canada Communication Group - Printing - Climatological Charts of the St Lawrence
- Marine Weather Services
- Weather Services for Mariners, Fishermen and Yachtsmen
Environment Canada - Safe Boating Guide
Canadian Coast Guard, Transport Canada
Meteorology courses
As an aid for mariners, this publication deals only with the wind's behaviour over different topographical features and the sea, and with the sea's behaviour.
To find out more or to specialize in meteorology and sailing, you may wish to enrol in one of the many courses offered by various institutions and groups, all of them drawing on the wide-ranging knowledge and experience of seasoned mariners.
- Cégep de Rimouski
Institut maritime du Québec
Montréal - Québec - Rimouski - Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles
Centre des pêches de Grande-Rivière - Cégeps
Services socio-culturels - Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons
- Québec Sailing Federation
- 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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