Exploring by Don and Réanne Douglass
Exploring the Pacific Coast, 2nd Ed.
Exploring the Pacific Coast, 2nd Ed.
by Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway Douglass
The Exploring the Pacific Coast, 2nd Edition contains recently researched information of all the places to tie up or anchor your boat from the Mexican border to Seattle. Over 500 of the best marinas and anchor sites are detailed with chart numbers, GPS waypoints, entrance and harbor diagrams, as well as specific information on marinas, complete with phone numbers and websites. The entrance bars of the northern coast are detailed with Proven Cruising Routes, numerous aerial photographs and key local knowledge. Covered in exacting detail are all the boating areas: San Diego to Santa Barbara, every anchor site in the outstanding Channel Islands, the greater SF Bay Area, the lower Columbia River, and the greater Puget Sound. Every gunkhole along the entire Pacific Coast offering temporary or overnight shelter is documented, including attractions in the San Juan Islands and lower British Columbia. Also included are excerpts from the Coast Pilot, first-hand accounts of Fine Edge research trips on Baidarka and significant contributions by well-known cruising experts Bob and Carolyn Mehaffy, Ann Kinner, Roderick Nash, Kevin Monahan and Michelle and Jerry Gaylord. With the local knowledge in this breakthrough guidebook, the entire Pacific Coast becomes “local boating”. Nearly every boater can now plan coastal day trips or a voyage up the coast to Alaska or down to Mexico.
“For anyone thinking of cruising anywhere along the Pacific Coast this guide is a must have.”
Bob Bitchin,
Publisher Latitudes & Attitudes
ISBN: 9781932310221
Updates:
Page 57: Laguna Point to Point Conception Diagram
Destination Waypoint for CA130 should be CA130 (Ca162 & CA129)
Page 108: Northern Channel Islands Diagram, please correct the longitude coordinate for CA181, 119° 16.83'W
Page 160: Cardwell Point Coast Pilot Excert, 34 01'06"N, 120 17'24"W
Page 266: San Francisco to Fort Bragg diagram, Waypoint CA423 label appearing in waypoint listing is incorrect, should be CA423a 3°17.88'N, 123°03.09'W
Page 267: Farallon Islands, the latitude for mid Farallon Island is: 37°43.71'N
Page 373: Cape Kiwanda and Haystack Rock, Buoy "CK" is incorrectly referred to as buoy R"2" in the last sentence of the text. Please correct the coordinate for Buoy "CK" position to: 45°12.93'N, 123°59.56'W
Page 387: Columbia River to Neah Bay. The diagram on Page 387 has a drafting error on the route around the tip of Tatoosh Island for the extension of the Bluewater Route. The information is correct on the large-scale diagram for this route on Page 426.
Page 431: Neah Bay to Port Townsend, the diagram on page 431 has a drafting error on the route from Neah Bay to Tatoosh Island. The information on the large-scale diagram on page 426 is correct for this route.
Page 474: Poulsbo Marina monitors VHF66A
Exploring Southeast Alaska, 3rd Edition
Exploring Southeast Alaska, 3rd Edition
by Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway Douglass
New Expanded 3rd Edition.
The Inside Passage to Alaska is one of the world’s most spectacular trips for cruising boaters. Each summer Alaska’s sheltered waters, picturesque islands, deeply cut fjords, icebergs, and tidewater glaciers-along with outstanding flora and fauna-draw hundreds of adventurers who experience the beauty and challenges of this magnificent wilderness.
Exploring Southeast Alaska – Third Edition covers in unique detail every harbor and cove between Dixon Entrance and Skagway. With this best-selling reference of expert local knowledge, you can plan and execute your voyage with confidence and safety. Special features include the exact GPS waypoints for each cove entrance and anchor site, detailed diagrams, and customized itineraries from the San Juan Islands to Glacier Bay.
ISBN 978-1-934199-31-2
Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia, 3rd Edition
Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia, 3rd Edition
Blunden Harbour to Dixon Entrance with Original Research on the Queen Charlotte
New Expanded Third Edition, 2017
Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia takes seafaring explorers from the famous Nakwakto Rapids to the Alaska border. This ultimate pilothouse resource describes previously uncharted Spiller channel and Griffin Passage, the stunning scenery of Belize Inlet, Queens Sound, Burke and Dean Channels, Douglas channel, Gardner Canal, Principe Channel and the seldom-visited turquoise waters of Portland Canal. This revised second edition helps you plot a course for the beautiful South Moresby Island of the Queen Charlottes, known for its rare flora and fauna, and for its historical sites of native Haida culture.
Completely updated in 2017, this comprehensive pilothouse guide now includes the West Coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands. All waypoints are updated and standardized to NAD 83.
“Nothing can replace local knowledge and Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia provides excellent local knowledge from a seasoned research and writing team. The Douglass's have personally researched several thousand anchor sites over the entire coast.”
Exploring the San Juan & Gulf Islands, 3rd Ed.
Exploring the San Juan & Gulf Islands, 3rd Ed.
by Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway Douglass
Foreword by Warren Miller
Exploring the San Juan and Gulf Islands explores the most scenic and accessible cruising ground in the world–with well-sheltered waters, comfortable resorts, quaint villages and secure anchorages. The colorful San Juan and Gulf Islands, a seventy-mile chain that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border, are renowned for wildlife viewing, sport fishing, picturesque beaches, and marvelous marine parks.
Covering a thousand square miles from Deception Pass to Victoria and Nanaimo, this guidebook gives you the local knowledge you need to explore and enjoy more than 300 intimate islets and islands in this beautiful marine paradise. The updated 3rd Edition includes more great anchoring spots, Proven Cruising Routes with GPS waypoints, tips for Charter cruisers, itineraries and information on the Cascadia Marine Trail.
ISBN: 9781932310405
Exploring Vancouver Island West Coast, 2nd Ed.
Exploring Vancouver Island West Coast
Second Edition
by Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway Douglass
Nowhere does the tourist motto Super, National British Columbia! come more alive than on Vancouver Island’s West Coast. With five great sounds, sixteen major inlets, and an abundance of spectacular wildlife, the largest island on the west coast of North America is a cruising paradise. The Douglasses consider their voyages along this coast to be among their most satisfying adventures. In this guide they give small craft skippers the kind of local knowledge they need to circumnavigate the island and drop hook in an abundance of intimate coves.
ISBN: 9780938665571
Exploring the South Coast of British Columbia, 3rd Ed.
Exploring the South Coast of British Columbia, 3rd Ed.
by Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway Douglass
Features entrance waypoints, as well as anchor-site waypoints! The South Coast of British Columbia is designed by experts to give small boat skippers the kind of accurate, up-to-date information they need to cruise the unmatched natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Its complete descriptions of anchorages are based on the authors’ personal experience of each location and on information from local skippers not available anywhere else. With 200 diagrams, over 200 photographs of promising features, 2000 GPS waypoints, and extensive quotes from Canadian Sailing Directions, nautical adventurers can get underway to hundreds of pristine coves and inlets from the balmy Gulf Islands to the unspoiled fishing grounds off the north end of Vancouver Island.
About Don and Réanne Douglass
Réanne Hemingway-Douglass holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College. She attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of Grenoble, France. Sailor, writer, cyclist and language teacher, Réanne's articles have appeared in numerous outdoor magazines. Her best-selling book, Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare, which describes pitchpoling in the Great Southern Ocean, has been published in French and Italian and is now being translated into Spanish. She is also the author of The Shelburne Escape Line - Secret Rescues of Allied Aviators by the French Underground, the British Royal Navy and London's MI-9, and the Tierra del Fuego cycling memoir, Two Women Against the Wind.
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