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by
Chris Caswell
When packing your duffel bag for a charter cruise, leave your expectations at home, open your mind and enjoy yourself to the fullest – it can be the most enjoyable vacation experience you ever had. Caswell explores the facts and fiction of the world of yacht chartering, dispels the myth that chartering a boat is only for the rich and shows us that for a reasonable price, anyone can enjoy the incredible sunsets, pristine beaches and afternoon sails on sparkling waters that accompany yacht chartering.
Suited for both novice and experienced charterers alike, this book gives an inside look at what you will need to know before you decide to charter a yacht – from sailing skills and how to gain more experience– to knowing how to pick the perfect charter and getting the most out of your trip once it has been planned.
Whether you want to charter alone (bareboat), with a skipper (crewed) or in a group (flotilla), there is a different type of yacht chartering available to suit each individual’s interests and needs. Caswell offers advice on everything from choosing the right cruising area, a good company and selecting a suitable boat (including sample costs), to dealing with common problems encountered on charters.
Chris Caswell was the Senior Editor of Yachting Magazine for more than a decade and at Sea Magazine before that. He is now a freelance writer, contributing to a wide range of boating publications. He is a monthly columnist for Sailing, Boating World and Lakeland Boating, the boating editor of The Robb Report, and his articles appear in magazines.
#064 Hardcover, 212 pages, b&w photographs …$29.95
Chartracker to the Intracoastal Waterway
by
Katherine Giampietro Redmond
This book offers a completely new way to travel the ICW from Norfolk, VA to Jacksonville, FL. It contains the best aspects of charts and cruising guides in a single volume. Marina and anchorage notations.
#338 Softcover, spiral-bound, 184 pp, 132 color charts …$39.95...Now $15.00
by Val Haigh
(review by circumnavigator Rory McDougall)
Chasing The Dream is a delightful story of the Haigh family relationships and adventures whilst circling the world on their 40-foot Hedley Nicol trimaran. Although set in the late 60s and early 70s, their tales of cruising have similar principles in modern day. Val and Ernest should be hailed as pioneers, sailing their trimaran Tryste so far, when those early designs were largely experimental. Chasing The Dream is not a technical account of the Tryste’s world voyage, but rather an interpersonal account of how Val, Ernest and their four daughters adapted to a new life afloat; making the most of the places and people they visited en route. Val’s words successfully bring each landfall to life and conjure up aromas of tropical isles.
This
is a ‘must read’ for all cruising sailors, especially those who are taking
their own family voyaging. Val passes on many lessons learned and tips for
others wishing to live on the high seas. The last few chapters will also
satisfy “adventure book junkies,” when Val and Ernest pit themselves to save
Tryste from disaster, losing a float and mainmast amidst the vast North
Pacific. Their account highlights the determined nature of these two avid
cruisers. This is one of those books that when finished one thinks: “Why
aren’t we all out there chasing the dream?” I really liked the book once I got
into the first few chapters, it was 227 pages of good reading!
#223 Softcover, b&w photos, 227 pp …$16.95
The
Complete Loran-C Handbook
by
Luke Melton
With the prices of Loran-C receivers decreasing each year while their capabilities and dependability increase, more and more American yachtsmen and commercial navigators are buying units. Often, the operators’ manuals are indecipherable, and as a result navigators seldom utilize their receivers’ full potential. Most learn enough to turn the units on and find their approximate position, but they don’t know how to use a linear interpolator or loran plotter to locate themselves between printed time difference lines on a chart, and therefore they never attain the true accuracy the system is capable of. They know that flashing lights indicate a malfunction, but they probably don’t know what the problem is or how to correct it. They forfeit the impressive array of navigational functions that most loran units offer.
Without a great deal of effort, you can learn to play your receiver like a maestro. By programming waypoints, you can lay out a route in advance, and the receiver’s microprocessor circuitry will maintain a continuous running fix, informing you when you wander off course and how to return to it, and continuously updating your estimated time of arrival. You can get readouts of speed over the bottom and through the water, and a compass course to steer, adjusted for variation and ship’s deviation. In the outer geographic fringes of the loran signal coverage, you can manually override the receiver’s minimum signal-to-nose ratio threshold to receive fixes where otherwise you could not, a tremendously useful capability in places like the Bahamas. Melton also covers installation procedures, detailing the critical steps of antenna placement, electrical grounding, and location of on-board interference sources.
Luke Melton has taught coastal, celestial, and electronic navigation for many years, and it shows. This book is organized and written from a teacher’s perspective, logically and clearly, with your questions anticipated at every turn. If you want to get more out of your Loran-C receiver, here’s how.
#120 Softcover, 6" x 9", 222pp …$16.95... Now $12.00
Cooking On the Go
by
Janet Groene
Meals on a boat with tight space often are as dismal and dreary as North Atlantic fog. Now they needn’t be – even if the ship’s galley has only one pot and a larder filled with mostly canned goods. A seasoned veteran at making culinary silk purses from sows’ ears, Janet Groene brings years of stove-top and iceless enlightenment to breakfast, lunch and dinner tables, not only for cruising/racing boats, but for RVs and tent encampments.
In foolproof, easy-to-follow fashion, she concocts such crew-inspiring dishes as: Jury-Rigged Eggs Benedict, Burgoo for 15, Chick-pea Meatballs, Beer Fondue, Power’s Out Macaroni, All-at-Sea Ratatouille, Pumpkin Soup, Ambrosia, Depression Cake, Sunshine Pudding, and, for deep post-prandial satisfaction, Sampson Cay Smash.
Miraculously, all of these are made from simple provisions stored without refrigeration. As if such elixirs and mixtures weren’t enough to change a same-old-thing voyage into a cook’s tour of hearty appetites, this book also teaches other ingenious galley tips: how to perform ovenless baking, how to use a pressure cooker for fast, energy-conserving 1-burner cooking, how to pre-cook at home, how to stow & grow fresh vegetables, and how to propagate yeast. Until now, a galley chef was considered little more than a human can opener...
#140 Softcover, 5 1/2” x 8”, 285pp …was: $18.95 …NOW: $8.95
by Capt. Frank Papy
reviewed by Charles E. Kanter
The Florida Keys are both legend and reality. The cruising grounds of choice for many, they offer some of the best cruising without having to leave the continental USA.
For multihullers, it is in the endless shoal waters of the banks, reefs, cuts, and sloughs, and at the quaint towns that shallow-draft advantage comes into its own. They can reach places others only dream of; and sense the tranquility of a tropical paradise.
This is an exceptionally lucid and complete book. The author, Capt. Frank Papy, is a salty sea captain who knows the Keys extremely well.
Starting at Ft. Lauderdale, he outlines the possible/probable routes, and doesn’t avoid shallow-draft areas so dear to multihull hearts. There are pictures of cruising multis.
We like Frank’s photos of difficult areas and matching sketch charts. They deal with many areas not covered by other guides.
There are: provisioning guidelines, fish identification plates, instructions on how to ‘read’ the water, and how to anchor Bahamian style. There is a section about dangerous marine life and a chapter on ‘yacht jacking.’
The guide, though very useful to sailing people, is also of great value to motorists, tourists who are interested in visiting this truly unique region.
#326 Softcover, 51/2"x81/2", 245pp, many colored photos & detailed charts …$19.95
by
Marion, Thomas W., & W.J. Rumsey
This
guide covers the regions of: The Hudson River, New York State Canals, Upper
Niagara River, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Finger Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway,
Thousand Islands, and Lake Champlain.
#265 Hardcover, 7 1/2" x 8 1/2", b&w with drawings and small charts …$39.95... Now $25.00
A Cruising Guide to Puerto
Rico
by Stephen J. Pavlidis
A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico is the most
comprehensive guide ever written covering Puerto Rico and the Spanish Virgin
Islands. It contains 50 full-color charts. Both books: A Cruising Guide to
Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago contain extremely
accurate data that is based on independent surveys personally conducted by the
author, using a computer hydrographic system. In addition they both contain
detailed piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, photos, approaches and routes,
anchorages, services, dive sites, history, index, bibliography, and more. A
Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago will
greatly enhance your cruising experiences in these regions by giving you
valuable information based on actual experience, and local knowledge.
A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago
are the first and second books in the next phase of Pavlidis’ guides, a set of
five guides covering the entire Caribbean. These two releases will be followed
by guides covering the Windward, Leeward, and Virgin Islands.
A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico has 148 pages filled with charts and color
pictures, table of contents glossary and a list of charts.
#431 Softcover, 148 pp...$29.95
by
Chris Doyle
This is a guide to the 10 island nations of this enchanting Caribbean chain.
Doyle’s background in research makes this volume rich in practical details; yet its tone is conversational. He has also an intimate knowledge, gathered over more than 20 years of liveaboard Caribbean cruising on his 41-foot Helos, a former charter boat.
The Leeward Islands are a cultural and topographic mix, and Doyle addresses them through geographical grouping. The Renaissance Islands (St. Martin/Sint Maarten, St. Barts and Anguilla), an economically strong bareboating enclave, offer short cruising passages and a wide choice of anchorages. The Islands that Brush the Clouds, a volcanic chain strung between Saba and Montserrat, present cruisers with a variety of channels and terrain. Most broadly strewn are the Islands of Mountains and Mangroves, a patchwork chiefly of rugged rain forest and exotic fauna, guarded in spots by spectacular reefs.
The Southern Leewards in particular have cried for reliable charting. Doyle provides aid throughout, using GPS coordinates, a trove of charts and color maps. All are cross-referenced with the newly released Caribbean Yachting Charts, exactingly detailed. Spectacular photographs add a visual feast.
Onshore accommodations, transportation, communications, entertainment and
provisioning are also listed in the guide, as well as in an exhaustive
directory by island and service type.
#286 Softcover 6" x 9", Illustrations, 432 pp, …was: $24.95 …NOW: $5.00
by
Nancy and Simon Scot
This
is the 7th Edition of this very useful book. Illustrated with many aerial and
underwater photographs, as well as with clearly understandable, detailed
charts of bays, inlets, and approaches to islands. Lists of what to bring and
not to bring, island communications (cellular service), anchorages, and much
more, make this guide a must when you sail (or fly to) the Virgin Islands.
#467 Spiral-bound, 264 pages, many in color, 6" x 9" …$19.95... Now $15.00
A
Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago
by Stephen J. Pavlidis
A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico is
the most comprehensive guide ever written covering Puerto Rico and the Spanish
Virgin Islands. It contains 50 full-color charts. Both books: A Cruising Guide
to Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago contain extremely
accurate data that is based on independent surveys personally conducted by the
author, using a computer hydrographic system. In addition they both contain
detailed piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, photos, approaches and routes,
anchorages, services, dive sites, history, index, bibliography, and more. A
Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago will
greatly enhance your cruising experiences in these regions by giving you
valuable information based on actual experience, and local knowledge.
A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico and A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago
are the first and second books in the next phase of Pavlidis’ guides, a set of
five guides covering the entire Caribbean. These two releases will be followed
by guides covering the Windward, Leeward, and Virgin Islands.
A Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago contains 120 pages filled with charts
and color pictures, table of contents glossary and a list of charts.
#432 Softcover, 120 pp...$27.95