Sailors Guide Windward Islands 2013-2014 [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Doyle, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944428940 ISBN 13: 9780944428948

Verlag: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, 2012

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Book by Chris Doyle

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Publisher's Review: Chris Doyle published the first Cruising Guide to the Windward Islands in 1980. Over its 16 editions, this book has gone from strength to strength, staying on the cutting edge of cruising guide technology with each new edition.It was the first in the area to come out with GPS waypoints, color photography, computerized color sketch charts, and web support.It has, for many years, been the best selling guide to this area for the following reasons: Excellent anchorage charts that are based on the author's surveys and are very clear and detailed. Aerial photos are included for most anchorages. Like all Doyle's guides, it is beautifully printed in full color on glossy paper with lots of scenic photography.The navigational information is clear and concise, with GPS waypoints. The Doyle guides are unsurpassed for their onshore information, and this book is no exception, with excellent sections on exploring, provisioning, eating out, as well as services, and water sports for each anchorage.This guide is backed by his website which offers downloadable GPS waypoints and updates as well as general information and links to local businesses for all the islands covered in this guide.Plenty of local advertising is included, which most readers find really useful. This advertising also helps to keep the price of this high quality book really reasonable.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Chris Doyle's cruising guides are among the most popular in the Eastern Caribbean. Chris attributes this to listening to his customers when they tell him what they would like to see in a guide, and following their ideas when it makes sense. In this way his guides have always been highly innovative, leading the way in color sketch charts, then computerized color sketch charts, GPS waypoints, star charts and a guide-linked website where people can find corrections, download town maps, download GPS waypoints, access navigational advisories, and get links to down island businesses. Chris was born in England, but as soon as he was finished with college he set sail in an old Colin Archer called Sugar Creek, sailed south until the butter melted, turned right and ended up in Grenada, where he became a resident, and has been so ever since.To make ends meet, he built and rented a house, day-chartered, skippered yachts, and undertook deliveries. One of these nearly turned out badly on an older 38 foot yacht when the rudder shaft sheered some 50 miles west of Saba. However, the owner had some tools on board, and Chris and owner and his party managed to steer the boat for three days by balancing the sails and during that time managed to construct a temporary external rudder, so they could arrive under their own steam. Just as well, as the yacht in question was fitted with one of the early VHF radios, which had not yet arrived down-island, so there was no way to call for help.Chris built his dream boat a few years ago in Trinidad, a 40 foot catamaran called Ti Kanot. He spends well over half the year on board, visiting all the anchorages he has to update, and is well-known in the islands where he is also a yachting correspondent for Caribbean Compass, and he also writes for the international yachting press when asked.For part of the summer he travels, usually to Vermont where he stays with his life-partner Virginia Barlow.Chris Doyle is the author of the following titles: The Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands The Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands The Cruising Guide to Trinidad and Tobago, Plus Barbados and Guyana The Cruising Guide to Venezuela and Bonaire Leeward Anchorages Windward Anchorages

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• Verlag: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0944428940
• ISBN 13: 9780944428948
• Einband: Encuadernación en espiral
• Anzahl der Seiten: 429