A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands

A guide to the waters, anchorages, sights, destinations, and shoreside facilities and attractions of Puget Sound.

Auteur

Migael Scherer has been cruising Pacific Northwest waters and living aboard in Seattle since 1974, when she and her husband launched the sailboat they had spent two years building. She is a technical writer by trade. Her first book, Still Loved by the Sun, won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award and a PEN/Albrand citation for distinguished nonfiction. Hometown: Seattle, WA

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This well-received cruising guide, praised for its writing and its content, is now completely updated and redesigned in full colour with a larger trim size and lay-flat bindingPublished in 1995, A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound has earned a reputation for the elegance and lucidity of its writing, the usefulness of its information, and the accuracy of its pilotage instructions. Now thoroughly updated, this guide to the waters, anchorages, sights, destinations, and shoreside facilities and attractions of Puget Sound is in a new, larger format with a spiral binding to lie flat for ease of use, a false spine for ease of shelving in the store, and a stiff, printed-board back cover for durability.

Contenu

Acknowledgments

Preface

How to Use This Book

Introduction

Region 1: South Puget Sound

Olympia to the Tacoma Narrows

Region 2: Tacoma to Point Vashon

Including Gig Harbor

Region 3: Blake Island to Kingston and Edmonds

Including Port Orchard and Poulsbo

Region 4: Inside the Locks

Including Lake Union and Lake Washington

Region 5: Hood CanalRegion 6: Admiralty Inlet

Port Ludlow to Port Townsend

Region 7: The Strait of Juan de Fuca

Discovery Bay to Port Angeles

Region 8: Everett to Anacortes

Including Deception Pass and La Conner

Region 9: Cypress Island to Point RobertsRegion 10: The San Juan IslandsAppendices

Recommended Reading

Tidal Current Charts

Index