Cornell's Ocean Atlas: Pilot Charts for All Oceans of the World;

Jimmy Cornell, founder of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, noonsite.com and author of the sailor s bible World Cruising Routes has teamed up with his son Ivan to produce Cornell s Ocean Atlas, an atlas of 129 up-to-date pilot charts based on the last 20 years of satellite observations. Cornell s Ocean Atlas is: The first significant innovation in pilot charts an essential tool for passage planning since pilot charts were developed by Lieutenant Maury of the US Navy in the mid-1800s. The first and only pilot charts to be based on extensive near real-time geospatial and remote buoy sensing data from 1987 to the present measuring true surface wind and current gathered from a network of OSCAR and other meteorological satellites, using NOAA and Earth and Space Research (ESR) data programs An integral part of Jimmy Cornell s World Cruising Series works hand-in-hand with World Voyage Planner (available September 2012), World Cruising Routes and World Cruising Destinations