The Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands 2011-2012: A Complete Guide for Yachtsmen, Divers and Watersports Enthusiasts - Softcover

Nancy & Simon Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944428916 ISBN 13: 9780944428917

Publisher: Cruising Guide Publications, 2010

Synopsis

Completely re-designed and updated style, with more Virgin Island photography and full color detailed anchorage charts, these guides have been indispensable companions for sailors and visitors to these islands since 1982. Includes a free newly designed 17 x 27 color planning chart, with aerial photos of some of the anchorages. Covers the Virgin Islands including all the U.S. and British Virgin Islands! Anchoring and mooring information and fees Customs, immigration and National Parks regulations Particulars on marina facilities and the amenities they offer Water sports - where to go and where to rent equipment Shore-side facilities, restaurants, beach bars, shops, provisions, Internet connections Directory of goods and services after every island section Everything you will need to help make your vacation an enjoyable and memorable experience in a concise easy-to-use format.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon and Nancy Scott met while cruising in the British Virgin Islands during the mid 70s where some years later, they were married at St. Georges church in Road Town. Simon, a native of the UK, spent time in New Zealand as a teenager, where he raced dinghies and fell in love with sailing and the cruising lifestyle. A career in international marketing took him back and forth between London and New York before a sabbatical to the Virgin Islands aboard the classic John Alden cutter Tomorrow introduced him to the charms of the islands. He later returned to manage a major charter fleet where he was ideally positioned to listen to the needs and concerns of sailors from around the world discovering the delights and challenges of Caribbean cruising.

As Nancy s father was a U.S. naval officer, they lived in many places. Japan was where he taught her to sail dinghies and several moves later they lived in Hawaii where sailing became a major focus in her life. Nancy cruised extensively in the Bahamas in an old, wooden Tahiti Ketch, Ichiban, before sailing into the British Virgin Islands where she met Simon. They moved aboard Zephyrine, their Saxon class sloop, and began what would become their lifetime commitment to the sailing industry.

The first Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands was published in 1982 and since that time Nancy and Simon, along with their daughters, have continued annual surveys of the cruising area. Nancy continues to oversee the daily operations of publishing guides at the offices of Cruising Guide Publications with her team in Dunedin, Florida.

From the authors:

We thank our readers for their loyalty, suggestions and criticism. It is for you that we write the books, and it is because of you that we are encouraged to improve.

We look forward to seeing you in Virgin waters.

Nancy & Simon Scott

About this edition

• Publisher: Cruising Guide Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0944428916
• ISBN 13: 9780944428917
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Ashley Scott
• Illustrator: Affinity Design, Ann Sabo