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NZ$105.00 + Delivery.

Southern California: Point Conception to Rio Santo Tomas Mexico | Including the Channel Islands.

Compiled with Southern California cruising in mind, this cruising guide focuses on Southern California and extends into Mexico. Combining the Pacific Coast Guide with the Mexico Guide into one up-to-date, detailed cruising guide.

Each chart has GPS waypoints plus details about the cove, bay or harbor you are visiting, local knowledge and things to do. This guide is 121 pages jammed full of information for the novice as well as the experienced cruiser.

NZ$85.00 + Delivery.

CHARLIE'S CHARTS - NORTH TO ALASKA (Victoria, B.C. to Glacier Bay, Alaska).
By Charles and Margo Wood. Softcover. 0.79 kgs, 215mm x 280mm, 272 pages, monochrome and full colour photographs and monochrome port plans and charts. 6th edition published 2020.

This edition was prepared using the original maps and photos with many new photos added. Some valuable information has also been updated to accomodate the mariner undertaking this voyage. While this edition has been revised for an updated look, every effort has been made to maintain the integrity of the original book.

This cruising guide provides navigation information for a boater departing from Victoria and traveling along the British Columbia and Southeast Alaskan coasts following the protected waters of the Inside Passage to Glacier Bay, Alaska.
It is divided into eight sections with full-color photographs and a sketched chart indicating marinas or anchorages where a cruising boat can find moorage as it travels along the coast. Each location has a detailed sketch and description of a safe approach, recommended anchorages and shore facilities. Crucial portions such as the transit of passes and the passage of Cape Caution are given particular attention with guidelines for timing and recommended routes.
A customized weather map provides excellent information.

For cruisers unable to make the entire trip to Alaska shorter trips to spectacular areas on the coast are described such as to Princess Louisa Inlet, Desolation Sound, Broughton Archipelago, Fiordland Recreation Area, Kitimat and the Kitlope.

NZ$140.00 + delivery.

CHARLIE'S CHARTS - U.S. Pacific Coast. (Seattle, Washington to San Diego)
By Charles and Margo Wood. Softcover. 0.69 kgs, 215mm x 280mm, 235 pages, monochrome and full colour photographs and monochrome port plans and charts. 6th edition published 2015.

This cruising guide is a proven reference for safe navigation of the challenges for travel along the US Pacific Coast. It clearly describes the choices of routes for travel along the coast: harbor-hopping, inshore and offshore routes and discusses weather, crossing bars and safety issues.
A safe approach to all major facilities is described and sketched in detail as well as the anchorages in the Channel Islands.

Many cruisers have found the detailed information invaluable when approaching both planned stop-overs or when making an unexpected approach to the coast as a result of engine or equipment failure or a health emergency.
Detailed drawings of marina facilities takes the worry out of approaching an unfamiliar marina. GPS waypoints on each page are intended to assist a cruiser to locate offshore approach buoys and avoid reefs, points and capes by a safe margin. (Waypoints are not given following the channel into marinas since channel markers are regularly moved to indicate the best water as a result of constant shoaling and scouring)

This 6th edition is filled with QR codes, providing added information such as riverbar cameras, tide tables, weather cams, informational links to harbor websites and the like.
The use of these QR codes is not required to use the guide, but provide additional information to the cruiser when within cell phone coverage. The codes can be scanned by a smart phone or iPad.

NZ$140.00 + delivery.

SOUTH AMERICA PILOT VOLUME 1 (NP5)
By British Admiralty. Hardback. 215mm x 300mm, 19th Edition. Published 2021

Covers the North-eastern and Eastern coasts of South American from Cabo Orange to Cabo Tres Puntas.

NZ$260.00 + Delivery.

SOUTH AMERICA PILOT VOLUME 2 (NP6)
By British Admiralty. Hardback. 215mm x 300mm, 500 pages. 19th Edition. Published 2019

Southern Coasts of South America from Cabo Tres Puntas to Cabo Raper, and the Falkland Islands

NZ$260.00 + Delivery.

SOUTH AMERICA PILOT VOLUME 3 (NP7)
By British Admiralty. 1.4kgs, Hardback. 215mm x 300mm, 392 pages. 14th Edition. Published 2022

Covers the Western Coastal waters of South America from Cabo Ráper to Punta Mariato, the sea area to 100°W, Archipiélago de Colón and other outlying islands.

NZ$260.00 + Delivery.

PATAGONIA & TIERRA DEL FUEGO NAUTICAL GUIDE
By Mariolina Rolfo & Giorgio Ardrizzi. Hardback. 1.49 kg 180mm x 250mm, 719 pages. 3rd Edition. Published 2016

This pilot, now in its 3rd edition, is published in English by an Italian couple who have spent more than eleven years cruising in the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego area. The work is divided into two sections. The first part contains subjects such as yacht preparation, rules of navigation, meteorology, radio frequencies, flora and fauna, geology, history and a bibliography. The second part is strictly nautical. It describes more than 400 anchorages, all tested out by the authors. The description of every anchorage is accompanied by a clear plan, with recommendations as to where best to anchor as well as other practical tips.
Principally in black and white but with some magnificent colour plates.

NZ$310.00 + Delivery.

CHILE Arica Desert to Tierra del Fuego.
By Andrew O'Grady, 1.09 kgs, Softback, 278 pages, 210mm x295mm, full colour charts. Fully Revised Fourth Edition. Published 2019

This new edition of the guide to Chile covers the coasts from Arica in the north to Cape Horn in the south, and includes Isla de Pascua and Islas Juan Fernandez to the west.

Chile’s vast coastline offers the complete range of scenery and is one of the last easily accessible places on the planet where yachts can explore little known waters and find previously unreported anchorages.

This fourth edition is a compilation of information gleaned by many visiting yachtsmen, edited into a coherent and thorough guide. It offers detailed, fully updated sailing directions for almost all the important harbours and anchorages, many of which are documented here for the first time. The detailed text is supported by revised colour sketch plans throughout.
Contains full colour photographs, many of them annotated with additional pilotage information.

NZ$150.00 + delivery.

LONELY PLANET - Antarctica.
By Lonely Planet. Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 223 pages. 57 maps. 6th Edition. Published 2017.
No place on earth compares to this vast white wilderness distilled to an elemental haiku: snow, ice, water, rock. Antarctica is simply stunning.
The enormity of its ice shelves and mountain ranges invariably heightens feelings of humanity insignificance and natures grandeur. Antarctica's peculiar beauty may haunt you for the rest of your days. Even the trip over, crossing the Southern Ocean is an experience  with no landmass, low-pressure systems circle clockwise unimpeded, eventually reaching incredible speeds... The Falkland Islands are also included in Lonely Planet's Antarctica.

NZ$40.00 + delivery.

CAPE HORN AND ANTARCTIC WATERS. 1st EDITION
By Imray - Paul Heiney. Hardback, 1.10kg, 215mm x 303mm, 214 pages, colour Photographs, charts/ diagrams. Published 2017. 1st ed.

Covers the spectacular cruising grounds around Cape Horn, including Chile, the Beagle Channel, the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. Including some of the most dangerous waters in the world, from the treacherous Cape Horn to the icebound anchorages of Antarctica, it offers not only inspiration and encouragement but enough detail to plan the voyage of a lifetime.

Broadcaster and author Paul Heiney has incorporated a strategic range of navigational information from his voyage to the area alongside that gathered by other experienced sailors. Key passages, harbours and anchorages are described in an informative and enlightening way alongside useful sketch plans. Full-colour photographs and lively texts give a strong sense of the drama and magnificence of an area that is increasingly of interest to cruising yachts.

NZ$180.00 + delivery.

NZ$60.00 + Delivery.

GULF OF PARIA TO CARACAO PASSAGE CHART D.
Imray D. 0.12 kg. Published 2006
Scale: 1:1 021,000 . Chart Size 640 mm x 900 mm. Printed on partially synthetic and Water resistant paper. Folded into A4 size formed and supplied in robust PVC wallet.

NZ$60.00 + Delivery.

PUERTO RICO TO MARTINIQUE PASSAGE CHART A.
Imray A. 0.12 kg. Published 2006
Scale: 1:1 000,000 . Chart Size 640 mm x 900 mm. Printed on partially synthetic and Water resistant paper. Folded into A4 size formed and supplied in robust PVC wallet.

Covers Virgin and Leeward Islands

NZ$60.00 + Delivery.

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR TO AZORES AND CANARIES.
Imray A. 0.12 kg. Published 2023
Scale: 1:2 500,000 . Passage Chart Size 1120 mm x 790 mm. Printed on partially synthetic and Water resistant paper. Folded into A4 size formed and supplied in robust PVC wallet.

NZ$60.00 + Delivery.

CRUISING GUIDES BEYOND THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC. Page one. ATLANTIC, NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA, CARRIBBEAN, ANARCTICA See also Charts, Hydrographic and Cruising Guides for New Zealand, South West Pacific and Beyond

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