The 2019-2020 Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands - Softcover

Chris Doyle; Lexi Fisher

9780997854077: The 2019-2020 Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997854073 ISBN 13: 9780997854077

Publisher: Chris Doyle Publishing, 2018

This guide picks up where The Cruising Guide to the Southern Leeward Islands ends and is revised and updated for 2019-2020. After 36 years in print, this book continues to be the best selling cruising guide to the Windward Islands. Features include: aerial color photos, full color sketch charts, GPS waypoints and some of the best local information available. A wide range of topics are covered in this 2019-2020 edition including the latest information on marinas, marine services, water sports, resorts and shore-side shopping, restaurants, area sights, regulations affecting the yachtsman and helpful navigational directions. Most importantly, color aerial photography is included to further assist in navigation and provide invaluable information on anchorages. A popular feature is the directory, which gives the names, phone numbers, email and website addresses of most yacht related businesses. It is organized island by island to make finding the services effortless. The guide covers the four main Windward Islands including Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, as well as exploring many of the smaller sister islands. Additionally, the guide includes a free, color, 27 x 17 inch planning chart covering the Windward Islands.

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By Chris Doyle and Lexi Fisher. This guide picks up where The Cruising Guide to the Southern Leeward Islands ends and is revised and updated for 2019-2020. After 36 years in print, this book continues to be the best selling cruising guide to the Windward Islands. Features include: aerial color photos, full color sketch charts, GPS waypoints and some of the best local information available.

A wide range of topics are covered in this 2019-2020 edition including the latest information on marinas, marine services, water sports, resorts and shore-side shopping, restaurants, area sights, regulations affecting the yachtsman and helpful navigational directions. Most importantly, color aerial photography is included to further assist in navigation and provide invaluable information on anchorages.

A popular feature is the directory, which gives the names, phone numbers, email and website addresses of most yacht related businesses. It is organized island by island to make finding the services effortless. The guide covers the four main Windward Islands including Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, as well as exploring many of the smaller sister islands. Additionally, the guide includes a free, color, 27" x 17" planning chart covering the Windward Islands.

About the Author:

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 Northern Leeward Islands, The Cruising Guide to the Southern 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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