The Cruising Almanac is a two-year publication compiled by The Cruising Association and Imray. It covers Northwest Europe from the Shetlands to Gibraltar and West Ireland to the Baltic. For this edition the fully revised and corrected text, includes an improved introduction with a recompiled section on weather, details are provided for seven extra harbours and the section on the West coast of France has also been completely overhauled. As well as hundreds of small changes to plans throughout the work there are 15 new plans. The Cruising Almanac comes with a supplementary tide tables booklet with data on 47 standard ports and the following year's tide tables are posted free to subscribers on receipt of the application form inserted into the almanac.