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A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands
A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands
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Author: Migael M. Scherer
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book

List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 82000

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9 x 0.9

ISBN: 0071420398
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9780071420396
ASIN: 0071420398

Publication Date: December 16, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

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"Simply put, every local boater should have a dog-eared, well-thumbed copy [of this guide] as a permanent feature in the nautical library."?48 North

A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands has earned an outstanding reputation for the accuracy of its piloting instructions, the clarity of its writing, and the high quality of its information. This second edition includes color photos and nautical chart segments throughout, as well as:

    Approaches and anchorages for hundreds of bays, harbors, and inlets?many with annotated charts
  • Weather, tides, currents, and commercial traffic patterns
  • Local history and attractions
  • 240 full-color photos
  • 75 color chartlets
  • Larger size and lay-flat binding for ease of use

With at-a-glance ratings of every harbor and anchorage, A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands is the definitive resource for Pacific Northwest cruising.

"Everything a yachtsman's pilot ought to be: shipshape and workmanlike in its approach, unusually well written, very thoughtfully researched."?Jonathan Raban, bestselling author, Waxwings: A Novel and Passage to Juneau

"All the necessary nuts and bolts about navigating local waters is found in A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound. . . . A welcome addition to the library of any Puget Sound sail- or powerboat owner."?Seattle Times

"An elegant, beautiful book. . . . For even those few boaters who think they know all Puget Sound has to offer, this invaluable reference guide will introduce them to hundreds of new places yet to explore."?48 North

"So complete that veteran cruisers will discover cruising grounds they didn't know existed or didn't consider navigable."?SAIL

"An encyclopedic sailing guide to area waters, written with exhaustive first-hand research to almost every cove and inlet, and complemented with a remarkable series of maps, charts, and pictures."?Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Well written and full of tantalizing places."?WoodenBoat

"A keeper for my 'to take cruising' box."?Sailing

"A monumental book that gives minute details on every bay, waterway, and stretch of navigable salt water from Olympia to Port Angeles, including the San Juan Islands. It does an excellent job of explaining navigational hazards and anchoring peculiarities at each point along the way."?Bellingham Herald


Customer Reviews:   Read 2 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Puget Sound Cruising guide   August 23, 2008
Excellent guide book with great information (docking, fuel, eateries, malls, to do lists) for cruising the Puget Sound area. It has become part of the boat library.


5 out of 5 stars Boating Dad loves it!   March 19, 2008
I bought this for my Dad who just got a new boat. He read it all the way through and it looked like he book marked every page!


5 out of 5 stars Must Have   June 14, 2007
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a must have boaters book if you live in the Puget Sound area. Very detailed in the points of interest, each one is clearly described and rated. Some charting is included for difficult harbors, approaches are described. This gives us (new boaters and new Washingtonians) a great place to start in our explorations. Highly recommended!!!


4 out of 5 stars Beautiful pictures   May 12, 2007
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought the "A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands" by Migael M. Scherer for an upcoming trip to the San Juans this summer. The guide has lots of information and beautiful pictures from the various inlets and towns of Puget Sound and the surrounding areas, but I was a little disappointed with the charts, which seemed to be just reproductions of USCG nautical maps. I think this guide tries to do too much, and would have benefited by concentrating on one locale or area. Some more defined charts would have been helpful also. Nonetheless, anyone who is a sailor will appreciate it, and I would recommend it to someone who is sailing those waters.


5 out of 5 stars Love It~!   August 10, 2006
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Very informative, well written, nice layout. Looking forward to much more future use! If I find gunkholing the Gulf Isl by same author next, I'm buying it!



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