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NGA Sailing Directions, URLs for direct downloads

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#1 · (Edited)
Cam pointed out in http://www.sailnet.com/forums/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=31028
what a wonderful resource National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is. But I find it rather annoying how they hide the links for downloads, especially if I want more than one file.

I have been maintaining a list of URLs to the files and thought I would share them here.

Unfortunately you still have to unzip the files and run the executable to get to the PDF files.

Please report any broken or outdated links via PM, I will then edit and correct the original post to keep the list current.

Links tested and valid as of 20071124

Sailing Directions Planning Guide
Planning Guides include relevant physical, political, industrial, navigational and regulatory information about the countries adjacent to a particular ocean basin in a single volume.

Pub. 120 - Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia, 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub120/120setup.zip
Pub. 140 - North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea (Planning Guide), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub140/140setup.zip

Pub. 160 - South Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean (Eroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub160/160setup.zip

Pub. 180 - Arctic Ocean (Planning Guide), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub180/180setup.zip

Pub. 200 - Antarctica (Planning Guide and Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub200/Pub200setup.zip

Sailing Directions Enroute
Enroute include detailed coastal and port approach information, supplementing the largest scale chart of the area. Each publication is subdivided into geographic regions, called sectors, which contain information about the coastal weather, currents, ice, dangers, features and ports, as well as a graphic key to the charts available for the area.

Pub. 123 - Southwest Coast of Africa (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub123/123setup.zip

Pub. 124 - East Coast of South America (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub124/124setup.zip

Pub. 125 - West Coast of South America (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub125/125setup.zip

Pub. 126 - Pacific Islands (Enroute), 2005
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub126/pub126.zip

Pub. 127 - East Coast of Australia and New Zealand (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub127/pub127.zip

Pub. 131 - Western Mediterranean (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub131/131setup.zip

Pub. 132 - Eastern Mediterranean (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub132/132setup.zip

Pub. 141 - Scotland (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub141/141setup.zip

Pub. 142 - Ireland and the West Coast of England (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub142/142setup.zip

Pub. 143 - West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub143/143setup.zip

Pub. 145 - Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence (Enroute), 2005
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub145/145setup.zip

Pub. 146 - Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson Bay (Enroute), 2005
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub146/146setup.zip

Pub. 147 - Caribbean Sea - Volume I (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub147/147setup.zip

Pub. 148 - Caribbean Sea - Volume II (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub148/148setup.zip

Pub. 153 - West Coasts of Mexico and Central America (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub153/153setup.zip

Pub. 154 - British Columbia (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub154/154setup.zip

Pub. 155 - East Coast of Russia (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub155/155setup.zip

Pub. 157 - Coasts of Korea and China (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub157/157setup.zip

Pub. 158 - Japan - Volume I (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub158/158setup.zip

Pub. 159 - Japan - Volume II (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub159/pub159.zip

Pub. 161 - South China Sea and The Gulf of Thailand (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub161/161setup.zip

Pub. 162 - Philippine Islands (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub162/pub162.zip

Pub. 163 - Borneo, Jawa, Sulawesi, and Nusa Tenggara (Enroute), 2005
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub163/pub163.zip

Pub. 164 - New Guinea (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub164/pub164.zip

Pub. 171 - East Africa and the South Indian Ocean (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub171/pub171.zip

Pub. 172 - Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub172/172setup.zip

Pub. 173 - India and The Bay of Bengal (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub173/173setup.zip

Pub. 174 - Strait of Malacca and Sumatera (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub174/pub174.zip

Pub. 175 - North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub175/pub175.zip

Pub. 181 - Greenland and Iceland (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub181/pub181.zip

Pub. 182 - North and West Coasts of Norway (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub182/182setup.zip

Pub. 183 - North Coast of Russia (Enroute), 2005
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub183_new_edition/pub183.zip

Pub. 191 - English Channel (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub191/pub191.zip

Pub. 192 - North Sea (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub192/192setup.zip

Pub. 193 - Skagerrak Kattegat (Enroute), 2004
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub193/pub193.zip

Pub. 194 - Baltic Sea - Southern Part (Enroute), 2007
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub194/194setup.zip

Pub. 195 - Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia (Enroute)
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub195_new_edition/pub195.zip
 
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#35 ·
OK, my BS filter is starting to get overloaded.

It's fashionable today to try to tear down all governmental institutions. It's also common to just make stuff up, and to cynically put things, especially references to intelligence, into "scare quotes".

I'm not a language expert by any stretch, but can you provide proof that "Eskimo" is not one of the Greenlandic Inuit languages?
...AFAIK the NGIA (there's no excuse for the hyphenation in the Colonial language, someone was just stuck on being one of the "three letter" agencies) was formed mainly from classified assets, mainly military imaging, and for years they resented dealing with civilians in any way...
Can you provide evidence of this? Several years ago when I was having a hard time tracking down some NGA charts that I wanted, I learned that NGA had gotten in trouble for sharing them too openly with the public because those charts included information that other nations had shared with the US under expectation of secrecy. Those charts were promptly removed from their website. This wasn't done due to resentment, in fact it was quite the opposite, since they had previously been sharing too openly and got their hands slapped by other NATO countries.
 
#34 ·
Joe, after a decade you can expect links to expire and web sites to change. [Note to the mods, really good web sites run automatic LINK CHECKERS to flag and correct that problem.]

AFAIK the NGIA (there's no excuse for the hyphenation in the Colonial language, someone was just stuck on being one of the "three letter" agencies) was formed mainly from classified assets, mainly military imaging, and for years they resented dealing with civilians in any way. They claimed that the PDF form of Bowditch was "their" copyrighted material, because they had logos appearing in it. Hopefully the starched colllars have loosened up or moved on by now.(G)
 
#36 · (Edited)
I couldn't get any to open, but if these are the "Sailing Directions" or "Pilot Books" we had when I circumnavigated, it's no loss that they have been replaced by Cruising Guides and the internet for us. Much of the one I used on the east coast of OZ was based on information supplied by Cook and Bligh; true story.
Hardly "sailing" directions, they were published for commercial shipping and things mentioned such as a 'small boat channel' were plenty big enough for a pretty fair sized yacht (100+ feet). If you could imagine yourself standing on the bridge of a 600 to 1000' plus foot freighter then they could be helpful, as they were the only game in town. But it took a lot of interpolation for small sailing boat use.
The American ones were loose-leaf binders, so updating them was fairly easy as the updates were distributed as pages. The British ones were bound books. Don't remember how we updated them.
I still have a few around just for curiosity's sake, but I doubt that they will be used in earnest ever again.
Say a hearty thank you to all those who put the effort into writing and publishing cruising guides for us. Much more useful and accurate for our purposes than what was before.
 
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