How the notes are kept

A passage note is a small, careful thing. It is not a chart and it does not replace one. It is what one person wrote down after arriving somewhere slowly, so the next arrival is a little easier. This page records how we keep those notes honest.

Sources

First-hand passages

Most notes start as a logbook entry: the approach we actually took, in the weather we actually had.

Atlas revisions

Where a note touches a printed chart, we fold it back into the Lumen Atlas so the two never disagree quietly.

Local correction

Harbour masters and regular crews tell us when a light moved or a bank shifted. We write the date, not the rumour.

The revision window

Notes are reviewed once a season. A draft sits as draft until a second passage confirms it; only then does it lose the word. Anything we cannot confirm is marked checking and left visibly unfinished rather than tidied away. We would rather be slow than wrong.

Approaches

Every approach note carries three things and nothing more: what to see, when to come, and where to shelter if the day turns. We keep the language plain so it reads the same at the chart table and on deck.

What we will not do

We do not publish soundings as if they were surveyed, and we do not round a tide to make a note tidier. The desk is small, the readers are few, and the cost of a confident mistake is theirs, not ours.

Enquiries

Corrections, local notes and route-card requests: routes@harbor-lumen.com. We reply slowly and honestly.