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Dewey Decimal Number: 797 EAN: 9780071408691 Edition: 5 ISBN: 007140869X Label: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: August 01, 2002 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Studio: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Editorial Review: Product Description: This newly updated, comprehensive cruising guide to all the world's oceans is a valuable reference for cruising sailors and armchair dreamers. More than 500 sailing routes are detailed, including 40 new routes to such high-latitude destinations as Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica. The book includes 150 pages of two-color maps, updated GPS coordinates for navigation, and route-by-route descriptions of weather and hazards. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - great book for sailing routes around the worldI bought this book because people recommended this book being the best for planning your routes around the world plus Hal Roth who has a book "How to sail around the world" recommends it as well. The book tells you about the many different routes around the world about when there is hurricane season in the different oceans how long does the cyclone season last how far it is from one coutry to the next. This is a great book that I will be sure to use for when I plan my trip around the world. ... Read More Rating: - World Cruising Routes, by Jimmy Cornell Excellent book, a must have for anyone wishing to do any kind of off shore cruising, period. Rating: - An Encyclopedia for for World SailorsThis is a must have for your navigation station....... I can only say that if you value safety, thereby providing a more likely outcome of fun and pleasure, then use this volume, plan with this volume, and live by this volume and you will give yourself the widest margin of safety possible. Rating:  - A laborious book of recipes. Disappointing!In the circumnavigators world,everybody talks about this book. You find it on many yachts... A must? My disappointment comes to some extent of a high expectation. I found it terribly repetitive, describing each of many ways of crossing an ocean, with the same information repeated again and again, as if talking to a small child, without giving the "big picture" of this ocean. Ocean Passages and Landfalls by Rod Heikell is a lighter, much more enjoyable tool allowing the reader ... Read More Rating: - World Cruising RoutesWhen planning a circumnavigation one has three choices: 1) Do not plan and accept the extreme dangers of circumnavigation; 2) take a year or more and plan using all available nautical publications, charts, electronic navigation systems; and 3) read and use the outstanding information provided in "World Cruising Routes." This publication will save you time and more important provide excellent tips for short and long passages across the oceans of the world. Cornell has taken the time to consolidate information ... Read More |
