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Greek Waters Pilot is the definitive cruising guide to the coasts and islands of Greece. It covers the entire area from the Ionian Islands to the Aegean, Rhodes and Crete and includes details of over 450 harbours in a single volume. Greek Waters Pilot has been painstakingly compiled from the author’s own survey work and the latest first hand information. This tenth edition coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the original Greek Waters Pilot. As with each preceding edition this one includes further updating and improvement. Between 2005 and 2007 Rod Heikell and his wife Lu revisited much of the Ionian, Saronic and Dodecanese in their present yacht, Skylax, picking up new information, additional photographs and updated plans. The organization of detail within the confines of a single volume is an impressive achievement and has been the basis of Greek Waters Pilots’ status as the indispensable guide for anyone sailing around Greece.

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“…plenty of excellent colour photos and charts.” (Yachting Monthly, November 2007)

“…as accurate as it is accessible…” (Classic Boat, November 2007)

“This is an excellent guide to the Ionian Islands…”  (Multihull Review, November/December 2007)

“It is very comprehensive, very interesting, and very easy on the eye.”  (Sailing, December 2007)

The only guide you’ll ever need to cruising in the Ionian. Up-to-date and clear navigation, beautiful photography as well as local information, history, cuisine and culture.

Covering the Ionian Islands from Corfu down to Zakinthos as well as the adjacent mainland coast of Greece from the Albanian border down to the South coast of the Peloponnese. The Ionian Cruising Companion is the essential pilot guide for anyone cruising the area. Drawing on the her local knowledge and expertise, Vanessa Bird provides clear pilotage directions to a variety of harbours and anchorages, as well as offers useful information on the facilities and shops available.

 Helpful suggestions of where to eat and what to do ashore along with some valuable insights into the history and culture of this beautiful part of the Eastern Mediterranean are also included. Incorporating superb photography and full colour harbour plans, the Ionian Cruising Companion is well presented and easy to use.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter One Corfu, Paxos, Antipaxos and the Diapondia Islands
• Chapter Two Epirus Coast from Pagania to Preveza, including the Amvrakikos Gulf
• Chapter Three Lefkada, Meganisi, Kalamos & Kastos
• Chapter Four The Etolo-Akarnanian Coast
• Chapter Five Approaches to the Corinth Canal
• Chapter Six Kefalonia and Ithaca
• Chapter Seven Zakynthos & the Peloponnese
• Glossary
• Index

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“Salamina has in it a moving sense of the wonder and a rare, intimate picture of Greenlanders.” — New York Herald Tribune

Salamina has in it a moving sense of the wonder and a rare, intimate picture of Greenlanders. — New York Herald Tribune

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“Salamina has in it a moving sense of the wonder and a rare, intimate picture of Greenlanders.”–New York Herald Tribune

“Kent’s chatty and familiar style has the advantage of presenting places and people in an unforgettably vivid manner.”–Saturday Review

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“…clearly laid out with colour-coded chapters and distinct useful information boxes.” (Yachting Monthly, November 2007)

“…it has excellent photography with straightforward detailed chartlets and pilot information…”  (Multihull Review, November/December 2007)

“The book is a treasure trove, with many gems within its pages.”  (Sailing, December 2007)

“There is plenty of useful advice…”  (All at Sea, December 2007)

“Rob Buttress’ excellent book has whetted this reviewer’s appetite to return to that interesting cruising area…”  (www.noonsite.com)

Navigation, culture, cuisine, history and helpful advice for anyone cruising in these glorious waters.

Rob Buttress’ West Aegean Cruising Companion is an authoritative guide intended to help you make the most of your visit to this region. Covering the Gulf of Volos, the Sporades Islands and the Evian Gulf, the book provides comprehensive pilotage and nautical information as well as suggestions of where to eat and what to do ashore.

 Also incorporating some practical tips for your passage planning along with a valuable insight into the history and culture of the area, the book is enhanced with full colour charts and detailed photography, including many spectacular aerial shots.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Distance tables
• Chart Symbols and lights
• Chapter One Gulf of Vólos
• Chapter Two Tríkeri & Oreí Channels
• Chapter Three Skiáthos & Skópelos
• Chapter Four The Outer Sporádes
• Chapter Five Skíros & Aegean Évia
• Chapter Six Pétali Gulf
• Chapter Seven The Évian Gulfs
• Glossary
• Index

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This comprehensive tidal atlas includes detailed tidal streams and tidal heights in an accessible format with clear data. It includes an annual Cherbourg tide table and covers the Channel Islands, western approaches to Fastnet Rock, St George’s Channel (5th) and Bristol Channel.

Order Yachtsman’s Tidal Atlas: Western Channel (Yachtsmans Tidal Atlases): Michael Reeve-Fowkes form Amazon.

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From Publishers Weekly
There’s much to like in the story of how Nicolson (God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible) finds a sailing partner and a suitable boat and takes to the seas surrounding Ireland and Scotland. And his descriptions of the remote communities he encounters on the voyage are often engaging. Yet Nicolson’s narrative of this voyage—which was the basis for an eight-part National Geographic TV series—is saddled with an overabundance of superlatives: it’s one thing for a near fatal accident to be caused by “the biggest wave I have ever seen,” but Nicolson also encounters “the darkest night,” “the loneliest and most entrancing place” and so on. One wishes at times that Nicolson would turn his focus further inward; although he hints at personal tensions between himself and his sailing partner, as well as the strain placed on his marriage by his wanderlust, his slim volume doesn’t fully explore these conflicts, instead falling back on slightly more abstract reflections about humans’ relationship to the sea. Nicolson’s voluntary pilgrimage is a good story, made frustrating by falling just short of being a great story.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
–This text refers to the

Hardcover
edition.

From Booklist
Nicolson and a friend, George Fairhurst, sailed up the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland in 2003. The journey, in the 42-foot ketch Auk, took them to the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Faeroes. They were joined by a photographer, an archaeologist, and a film crew. Nicolson, the author of God’s Secretaries (2003) and Perch Hill (2000), observes that “the Atlantic-besieged cliffs of the St. Kildan islands, smashed and storm-swept up to 200 feet above the surface of the sea, provide as enormous and powerful a meeting of rock and ocean as you ever find in Britain.” Along the way, they saw puffins, gannets, shearwaters, seals, crabs, and a spectacular underwater cave. The book is filled with descriptive passages of the sea, cliffs, and the shoreline. There are passages revealing the anxiety and tedium that sometimes occurred, but Nicolson’s love for the sea and his fervor for travel and adventure is evident from the first page to the last. George Cohen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
–This text refers to the

Hardcover
edition.

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The 5th edition of Martin Lawrence’s popular guide to the Firth of Clyde and west coast of Scotland neighbouring the Crinan Canal. Fully revised with amended plans and many new photographs.

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The main attraction of The Cruising Almanac has been the detailed colour charting of harbours and supporting pilotage notes. The almanac was relaunched as a comprehensive two-year almanac in September 2002. Following the oustanding success of the first edition this second edition while being the same basic format has been improved following comments from users of the first edition. The coverage from Norway to Gibraltar will be unchanged but more plans have been introduced. With 500 full color charts, tidal streams and curves, harbour information, cautions and more. Tide tables for 47 standard ports are included in a separate booklet.

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This second edition of the RCC’s guide has been thoroughly updated and revised. Most of the plans of anchorages and harbours have been redrawn and referred to WGS 84 datum. Particular attention has been paid to the structure of the book to make it more user friendly, and to aid this new overview charts have been introduced. In line with the other RCC pilots, waypoints are now given as an aid to navigation and locating the numerous anchorages on the beautiful cruising coasts of Corsica and Bouches de Bonifacio and Sardinia’s island-studded north coast.

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This fully revised 2nd ed. pilot covers the entire stretch of the Red Sea from Aden to Cyprus. Including ports and anchorages on the Red Sea coasts of Oman, Yemen, Aden, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Suez Canal, Israel and Cyprus. Over 70 anchorages were resurveyed and new ones explored. One key improvement is the coverage of diving sites.

order Red Sea Pilot: Aden to Cyprus (Mediterranean pilots & charts): Elaine Morgan; Stephen Davies form Amazon.