Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Doyle
Publisher: Chris Doyle Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 384869
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 13
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0944428762
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780944428764
ASIN: 0944428762
Publication Date: August 30, 2006
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Book Description
Covering the islands from Martinique to Grenada with beautiful scenic photography, this book is by far the most popular guide to this area. The new 12th edition includes many clear detailed sketch charts based on the author's own surveys, and aerial photos of most anchorages. Clear and concise navigational information includes GPS waypoints that can be downloaded directly to your GPS from the author's website. This guide is unsurpassed for its onshore information with sections on exploring, provisioning, eating out, services, water sports and photography.
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 Great info January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are planning a trip to the carribeans (Grenadines/Windward Islands) - this is your #1 reference. Excellent! Very complete, in colors, pictures...
Must have book for Grenadine sailors November 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this book more than the charts. The information is up-to-date and accurate. Don't go sailing with out it.
J. Lemke
 A book for sailors and divers alike. March 15, 2006
This is a "real" guide. It has been carefully compiled and includes all the information which any water-borne visitor will need to know when visiting the Windward Islands., These are (in the order they appear in the book); Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Bequia (pronounced Beckway), Mustique, Canouan, Mayreau, Tobago Cays, Palm Island, Union Island, PSV and Petite Martinique, Grenada, Carriacou, and, of course, each of the passages between these enchanting islands.
In an informative introduction, which gets anyone who is sitting in a cold house during an American or European harsh winter (like I am!) wanting to reach for the phone and book a flight, we learn something about the local land and the customs of the people who live there. There are also a number of helpful suggestions on any topic from "what to bring" to sunburn - and it's all useful stuff, even for the seasoned traveller.
Then it's on to the cruising information with notes on weather and navigation as well as more general information about scuba diving, flora, fauna and even the flags of the different countries visited. From now on we get down to cases in the order of march already mentioned.
Telling people how they should navigate their boat is a very responsible undertaking. Forget to include that, otherwise well known, underwater obstacle and you can guarantee at least 3 boats will have hit the darned thing within the first 24 hours of your book being published. This book, however, is a professional work and I doubt any yacht or other small boat travelling to and from these small islands will be without a copy.
NM
One of my favorite travel guides ever. September 4, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite travel guides, ever, period. Even though this book is aimed at sailors, it has plenty of helpful information for land travelers too. Plus it has a lot of information I've never found in another travel guide. The best example is this. One beautiful night as we sat on our terrace enjoying the 180 degree view of the southern skies, I turned to my travel partner and said, "Did you print off those star charts so we can identify the southern cross?" His response. "Uh oh, I never got around to that."
The next day we looked all over the Island of Bequia for a star chart. We were laughed out of stores, some of which even catered to sailors. At one point I suggested maybe the Sailors Guide we have back at the villa will have a star chart. We agreed it was not likely but hot and tired, we decided to go back and see. We get back, look, and sure enough there it is - a star chart of the southern skies along with a date and time table for determining where everything should be and when. Oh my goodness. We had a chart all along. Thank you Sailors Guide!!
We used that star chart every night for the rest of the week and had a blast locating and identifying all the constellations we could see. It was fascinating watching the southern cross gradually rotate around the point in the sky where the south axis of the earth intersects with the southern sky. Ah, the pace of life on Bequia and the joy of a guide book that delivers way more than expected.
 Too many adverts March 3, 2002
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Doyle's info was very good and the color arial photos and mini charts are very usefull. The book is 9 inches by 6 inches and has 400 pages, however if you were to remove the advertizments and touristy photos you would probably end up with about 275 pages of usefull info.
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