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Fisheries and Oceans Pêches et Océans Canada Canada Corrected to Monthly Edition No. 06/2020 CEN 300 FIRST EDITION General Information Great Lakes Sailing Directions Pictograph legend Anchorage Wharf Marina Current Caution Light Radio calling-in point Lifesaving station Pilotage Department of Fisheries and Oceans information line 1-613-993-0999 Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue Rescue Co-ordination Centre Trenton (Great Lakes area) 1-800-267-7270 Cover photograph CCGS Limnos alongside in Burlington Canadian Hydrographic Service B O O K L E T C E N 3 0 0 Corrected to Monthly Edition No. 06/2020 Sailing Directions General Information Great Lakes First Edition 1996 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Users of this publication are requested to forward information regarding newly discovered dangers, changes in aids to navigation, the existence of new shoals or channels, printing errors, or other information that would be useful for the correction of nautical charts and hydrographic publications affecting Canadian waters to: Director General Canadian Hydrographic Service Fisheries and Oceans Canada Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0E6 The Canadian Hydrographic Service produces and distributes Nautical Charts, Sailing Directions, Small Craft Guides and the Canadian Tide and Current Tables of the navigable waters of Canada. These publications are available from authorized Canadian Hydrographic Service Chart Dealers. For information about these publications, please contact: Canadian Hydrographic Service Fisheries and Oceans Canada 200 Kent Street Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0E6 Phone: 613-998-4931 Toll free: 1-866-546-3613 Fax: 613-998-1217 E-mail: [email protected] or visit the CHS web site for dealer location and related information at: www.charts.gc.ca © Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada 1996 Catalogue No. Fs 72-3/1996E ISBN 0-660-16393-4 Ottawa, 1996 (Aussi disponible en français) II his is a corrected reprint of the 1996 edition of this booklet. As such, all Notices to Mariners up to and including the Monthly Edition shown in the table below have been incorporated Tin this reprint. This booklet should be kept up-to-date by applying corrections published in Section 4 of the monthly Canadian Notices to Mariners at: http://www.notmar.gc.ca. This booklet should not be used without reference to corrections in Notices to Mariners. Record of corrections to this Sailing Directions booklet from monthly Notices to Mariners. CORRECTIONS N/M No. N/M No. N/M No. N/M No. N/M No. 06/2020 III Preface __________________________________________________________ VI Explanatory notes _________________________________________________ VII Abbreviations _____________________________________________________ IX CHAPTER 1 General Navigational Information Routes and navigational hazards ____________________________________ 1-1 • Ship routing systems _________________________________________ 1-1 • Fishing vessels ______________________________________________ 1-2 • Winter navigation ____________________________________________ 1-2 Nautical publications ______________________________________________ 1-3 • Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) publications ________________ 1-3 • Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) publications ________________________ 1-3 Nautical charts ___________________________________________________ 1-4 Magnetic variation ________________________________________________ 1-6 Cables __________________________________________________________ 1-7 Water level information ____________________________________________ 1-7 Aids to navigation _________________________________________________ 1-8 Electronic positioning systems _____________________________________ 1-10 Pilotage ________________________________________________________ 1-10 Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) _____________________________________ 1-11 Use of radio _____________________________________________________ 1-11 Search and rescue ________________________________________________ 1-13 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE Cold water survival ______________________________________________ 1-14 CHAPTER 2 Regulations List of Statutes, Regulations, Guidelines and Conventions _______________ 2-1 Regulations ______________________________________________________ 2-2 CHAPTER 3 General Geographic information and Broad Description of Port Facilities Geographical and physical features __________________________________ 3-1 The provinces ____________________________________________________ 3-3 St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes system ___________________________ 3-5 Port facilities _____________________________________________________ 3-7 CHAPTER 4 Natural Conditions Seabed __________________________________________________________ 4-1 Ice ______________________________________________________________ 4-3 • Types of ice ________________________________________________ 4-3 • Ages of ice _________________________________________________ 4-3 • Concentration _______________________________________________ 4-3 • Forms of floating ice _________________________________________ 4-4 • Surface features _____________________________________________ 4-4 • Other terms common to shipping ________________________________ 4-4 • Ice coverage ________________________________________________ 4-5 Water levels _____________________________________________________ 4-11 Seiches _________________________________________________________ 4-14 Currents _______________________________________________________ 4-15 Meteorological information ________________________________________ 4-16 APPENDICES Sail Plan_________________________________________________________ A-1 Distances between points on the Great Lakes __________________________ A-3 IV DIAGRAMS Datum, height and clearance diagram ________________________________ 1-6 Cold water survival chart _________________________________________ 1-14 Effect of wind on exposed persons __________________________________ 1-15 Median ice cover __________________________________________________ 4-6 Great Lakes water levels __________________________________________ 4-13 Ship icing _______________________________________________________ 4-19 Index ____________________________________________________________ I-1 Geographical Index ______________________________________________ GI-1 V he First Edition of Sailing Directions, CEN 300 — General Information, Great Lakes, 1996, has been compiled from Canadian Government and other information sources. In general, Tall hydrographic terms used in this booklet are in accordance with the meanings given in the Hydrographic Dictionary (Special Publication No. 32), published by the International Hydrographic Bureau. This edition introduces a new presentation and layout of the geographical areas. General information for the Great Lakes is grouped in this booklet. It contains navigational information and a brief description of the main port facilities as well as geographic, oceanographic and atmospheric PREFACE characteristics. A geographical index at the end of this booklet should also be consulted. The detailed descriptions of the geographical areas is given in a series of volumes and booklets. Their limits are printed on the back cover of the booklets. The appropriate descriptive booklet(s) should be consulted in conjunction with this CEN 300 — General Information booklet. Tidal, water level and current information has been revised by the Tides, Currents and Water Level Section of the Canadian Hydrographic Service. Meteorological and ice information has been revised by the Atmospheric Environment Service, Department of the Environment. The photographs are by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Users’ comments concerning the format, content or any other matter relating to Sailing Directions would be appreciated and should be forwarded to the Director General, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E6. VI anadian Sailing Directions amplify latitude of the position. The international nautical charted details and provide important mile, which has now been adopted by most maritime Cinformation of interest to navigation nations, is equal to 1,852 m (6,076 ft). which may not be found on charts or other marine are expressed in knots, which means publications. Sailing Directions are intended to be Speeds read in conjunction with the charts quoted in the text. nautical miles per hour. Depths, unless otherwise stated, are referred Remarks to chart datum. As depths are liable to change, par- ticularly those in dredged channels and alongside Buoys are generally described in detail only wharves, it is strongly recommended that these where they have special navigational significance, be confirmed by enquiry to the appropriate local or where the scale of the chart is too small to clearly authority. show all the details. Where sections are quoted verbatim from Chart references, in italic in the text, normally U.S. Coast Pilot 6, the figures in square brac- refer to the largest scale Canadian chart but occa- kets [thus] after units of measurement are the sionally a smaller scale chart may be quoted where International System of Units (SI) equivalent in its use is more appropriate. nautical miles, metres or tonnes. Tidal information relating to the vertical mo- Elevations and vertical clearances are given vements of the water is not given and the Canadian above chart datum. Tide and Current Tables should be consulted. Howe- ver, abnormal changes in water level are mentioned. Heights