Essential Sailing Destinations: The World's Most Spectacular Cruising Areas
Year: 2009 Language: English Author: Adrian Morgan, Andrew Bray Genre: Guide Publisher: Sheridan House Edition: First ISBN: 978-1574092813 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 320 Description: Essential Sailing Destinations explores a wide and varied range of sailing areas, including the multicultural Mediterranean; the havens, rivers, and bays of America's East Coast; and the balmy seas of Australasia and the Indian Ocean, peppered with some of the world's most stunning archipelagos. Each entry includes a locator map and useful at-a-glance information, including best crusing months, local languages and currency. Destinations are rated as to navigational difficulty, family friendliness, facilities for diving, shoreside eating, and sightseeing. Each spread covers one destination, giving a short description, photographs, and important details like chart numbers, best cruising times, prevailing winds and time zones. Get this book in your hands, and you'll be anxious to sail away tomorrow. ― Wooden Boat In essence, this is a richly illustrated sailing-specific guide book. The color photos are great and will definitely whet the appetite. But the text entries, which come from some of the world's best known boating writers, will make you even hungrier for adventure....All you need to do is add water! ― Yachting Monthly Additional info: About the Author Andrew Bray is an editor for both Yachting World and Yachting Monthly. He has cruised in many parts of the world and raced in short-handed events. An accomplished yachtsman and best-selling author, Jimmy has sailed 200,000 miles, including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica, Alaska and Spitsbergen. Founder of the ARC transatlantic rally, Jimmy is credited with having devised the offshore crusing rallly concept. Tom Cunliffe has written 25 books, including two "Best Books of the Sea" award winners. He is one of Britain's leading writers on sailing and the sea and has worked on vessels from dinghies to large gaff schooners. He edits The Shell Channel Pilot and is a columnist for Yachting Monthly, Yachting World and SAIL magazine. Paul Gelder has crewed for Robin Knox-Johnston, cruised in the Arctic, the South Pacific and Mexico's Sea of Cortez. He has sailed the Caribbean, from Belize to the Bahamas, and the Mediterranean. Author of three books on round-the-world sailing, he took part in the first British Steel Challange. He edited Total Loss, an anthology of stories of yachts lsot at sea. Colin Jarman is a freelance sailing writer and photographer who works regualrly for the British magazines Sailing Today and Anglia Afloat.
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Essential Sailing Destinations: The World's Most Spectacular Cruising Areas
Language: English
Author: Adrian Morgan, Andrew Bray
Genre: Guide
Publisher: Sheridan House
Edition: First
ISBN: 978-1574092813
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 320
Description: Essential Sailing Destinations explores a wide and varied range of sailing areas, including the multicultural Mediterranean; the havens, rivers, and bays of America's East Coast; and the balmy seas of Australasia and the Indian Ocean, peppered with some of the world's most stunning archipelagos.
Each entry includes a locator map and useful at-a-glance information, including best crusing months, local languages and currency. Destinations are rated as to navigational difficulty, family friendliness, facilities for diving, shoreside eating, and sightseeing.
Each spread covers one destination, giving a short description, photographs, and important details like chart numbers, best cruising times, prevailing winds and time zones. Get this book in your hands, and you'll be anxious to sail away tomorrow.
― Wooden Boat
In essence, this is a richly illustrated sailing-specific guide book. The color photos are great and will definitely whet the appetite. But the text entries, which come from some of the world's best known boating writers, will make you even hungrier for adventure....All you need to do is add water! ― Yachting Monthly
Additional info: About the Author
Andrew Bray is an editor for both Yachting World and Yachting Monthly. He has cruised in many parts of the world and raced in short-handed events.
An accomplished yachtsman and best-selling author, Jimmy has sailed 200,000 miles, including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica, Alaska and Spitsbergen. Founder of the ARC transatlantic rally, Jimmy is credited with having devised the offshore crusing rallly concept.
Tom Cunliffe has written 25 books, including two "Best Books of the Sea" award winners. He is one of Britain's leading writers on sailing and the sea and has worked on vessels from dinghies to large gaff schooners. He edits The Shell Channel Pilot and is a columnist for Yachting Monthly, Yachting World and SAIL magazine.
Paul Gelder has crewed for Robin Knox-Johnston, cruised in the Arctic, the South Pacific and Mexico's Sea of Cortez. He has sailed the Caribbean, from Belize to the Bahamas, and the Mediterranean. Author of three books on round-the-world sailing, he took part in the first British Steel Challange. He edited Total Loss, an anthology of stories of yachts lsot at sea.
Colin Jarman is a freelance sailing writer and photographer who works regualrly for the British magazines Sailing Today and Anglia Afloat.
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