Waggoner Guide 2007

Can$24.95
0-935727-23-x

If you're cruising the Pacific Northwest this year, you'll want Robert Hale's new Waggoner Guide 2007. From Puget Sound to Prince Rupert, B.C., including the West Coast of Vancouver Island, this popular boating guide provides complete information about marinas and marine parks; U.S./Canada border crossings and Customs; and VHF radio requirements. Now with 338 pages, Waggoner is illustrated with many maps and photos.

The Waggoner's maps, showing the coverage of each chapter, the harbours, and individual marinas, are one of its most popular features. They show approach routes and facilities, and take much of the anxiety out of entering a harbour for the first time. The book is so useful that a current edition is required equipment aboard many of the charter fleets in the Northwest. The Waggoner is fully indexed and an easy reference to use. Marina listings begin with the address, telephone, fax, e-mail, and VHF call channel. Then follow amenities such as power, water, showers, laundry, fuel, haulout, groceries, and so forth, and finally, any comments.

This book is far more than a catalogue of marinas and anchorages, however. It is a treasure of navigation tips, weather lore, anchoring ideas, and local water knowledge. While much of the text is serious, much is written with humor. Informative sidebar stories and descriptions explain tide-rips, reversing tidal rapids, stern-tie lines, chart-making, shellfish toxins, and more. Lighter stories and descriptions include the "lost-in-the-'50s" flavor of downtown Olympia; the proper attitude while waiting at the Ballard Locks ("it takes as long as it takes, and that's how it is"); the plight of three hungry men trying to row a dinghy ashore at Oak Harbor; and the discovery of a genuine, fur-bearing trout (very rare) in Prince Rupert.

8 1/2 x 11 • 338 pages Softcover

 

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