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| A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast | 
 enlarge | Author: James L. Bildner
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 423456
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071453288
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8929741
EAN: 9780071453288
ASIN: 0071453288
Publication Date: May 11, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
WHEN YOU NAVIGATE THE COAST OF MAINE, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast takes the guesswork out of navigating Maine?s intricate, reef-strewn waters, ensuring that your next voyage through this coastal paradise will be picture-perfect. Inside you will find more than 180 full-color aerial photographs that provide "by-the-picture? navigational guidance for Maine?s treasured harbors, difficult passages, and hidden approaches. Author James Bildner has added chart segments and recommended course lines to these low-altitude photos, giving you a unique, at-a-glance guide to sailing around Maine. It?s like cruising with a masthead lookout to point the way. ? Text descriptions of area with piloting instructions ? Labeled approach lines ? Low-angled photos with key navigation aides labeled ? Chart segments from high resolution NOAA charts
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| Customer Reviews:
 Maine harbors from the air January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Will be a great nav aid... look forward to publications covering other areas...
Maine Visual Cruising Guide: a MUST for all Maine cruisers November 3, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This outstanding book provides substantial assistance for trip planning and cruising the coast of Maine.
Having cruised Maine's beautiful coast for several decades, planning for my next cruise this summer has already been made easier by having this fine book. Of course, one must do the usual "paper chart navigation" planning before hand, but the additional help of this book is invaluable.
This book has a permanent place both shoreside and onboard while cruising.
It also makes a fabulous gift for my like-minded cruising friends.
Captain Ken Wright
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 Useful to have on board but Google Earth is much better November 2, 2006
Nice photos. Navigation info is duplicated in most cruising guides. Still, pictures are worth ... words.
Visual Guide to the Maine Coast August 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excellent publication and valuable reference manual for any 'cruiser' transiting the waters of Maine. The photos taken by Jim Bildner provide a very welcome aspect of unfamilar destinations.
It's gorgeous and very useful May 24, 2006
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I recall chartering in the British Virgin Islands over 20 years ago and being handed a spiral-bound book that showed all the anchorages viewed from a couple hundred feet above the water, looking in. Wouldn't it be great if there were something like that for the far-trickier Maine coast? Well, now there is, and it's extremely well done.
Most two-page spreads in the book comprise an excellent harbor photo, the related section from the current NOAA chart, and a description of the harbor area. Superimposed on the chart is an arrow indicating the location from and direction in which the photo was shot. Some charts also include additional arrows that are overlayed on the photo as well so that you can see, for example, how the safest route for entry as seen on the chart actually looks on the water. That is really nice.
By my rough count, there are 110 harbors covered, from Isles of Shoals (OK, they're not quite in Maine) to Buck's Harbor on the west shore of Machias Bay. Unfortunately, anchorages around Eastport have been omitted. Maybe Mr. Bildner can get to them in a future edition.
Everyone cruising the Maine coast will want to have this supurb visual guide aboard to supplement the three standard guides. I only hope that the availability of this fine work won't bring TOO many folks and boats "from away" up to crowd our beautiful coast.
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