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| A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound: Olympia to Port Angeles, including the San Juan Islands |  | Author: Migael M. Scherer
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 147,634
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0070552851
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.10916432
EAN: 9780070552852
ASIN: 0070552851
Publication Date: November 1, 1994
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Product Description
Puget Sound is one of the largest and most attractive cruising grounds in North America, more varied by far than even beteran cruisers expect--great natural harbors, breathtaking scenery, and a mild climate that permits year-round cruising. Here is the first comprehensive boater's guide to the almost 2,000 miles of shoreline and more than 300 islands that lie between Washington's capital of Olympia and the Canadian border at Point Roberts, including the San Juans. Veteran Pacific Northwest cruiser and award-winning author Migael Scherer brings more than 20 years of Puget Sound sailing to this guide, offering intricate, hard-earned local knowledge of the approaches, anchorages, and facilities of hundreds of bays, harbors, and inlets, with annotated charts for many. Here also are insights into local history and attractions, and a rating system that details every harbor and anchorage, how and where to get ashore, and what facilities to expect. A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound shows you not only where to cruise but how to make your cruise safer and more enjoyable, with a detailed discussion of weather, tides, currents, and the effects of commercial shipping, logging, and fishing. Migael Scherer is a graceful, meticulous, and observant writer whose love and appreciation of all that Puget Sound offers rings clearly. Here is her personal tour. From Olympia through the San Juans to Point Roberts on the Canadian border and Port Angeles in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound offers nearly 300 islands and some 2,000 miles of shoreline. Here is the definitive guide, including - Tested piloting information, with comprehensive details on approaches, anchorages and moorage, getting ashore, and things to do
- Harbor and anchorage ratings, including beauty and interest, protection, and facilities-at-a-glance
- Advice on coping with tides and currents, weather, commercial traffic, log booms, and other navigational challenges
- Annotated chartlets
- Local history and seasonal highlights
"Everything a yachtsman's pilot ought to be: shipshape and workmanlike in its approach, unusually well written, very thoughtfully researched. . . . I wish you'd put the price up to, say, $1,000, and thereby deter a few people from discovering the anchorages that until now have been quietly traded between friends."--Jonathan Raban "Simply, every local boater should have a dog-eared, well-thumbed copy of A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound as a permanent feature in the nautical library."--48 Degrees North "This would be a welcome addition to the library of any Puget Sound sail- or powerboat owner. It could well become a hit among landlubbers searching for that elusive Sound-side getaway."--The Seattle Times
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 The first, and still best, cruising guide we bought December 22, 1998
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
This was the first book my wife and I purchased when we started boating in the Puget Sound 5 years ago. We have bought dozens of boating books since. This is still our favorite. We have worn it out and are now buying another copy to keep at the house. The descriptions of harbor entrances are more complete than other books we use - we always use Scherer's descriptions for new approaches. The book is fun to read - includes sidebars of historical or social interest. Nice photography and an eye-pleasing layout. (Tidal current charts are included in the appendix.)
The Best for Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands February 6, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
After 10 years of cruising and teaching sailing/cruising skills in this area, and this is the best guide to all of the US waters of Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. Should be on all charter boats, but often is not, so if you are chartering inquire. Add a "BBA Chart Kit" for detailed charts, and for the Canadian Gulf Islands "The Dreamspeaker Guide," and you are set! Finally, adding this season's "Waggoners" guide will give you the latest contact information for marinas, etc.
 I like the Afoot and Afloat series by the Muellers better June 18, 2007
zigzagg (Vashon Island, WA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Some charts in this book are very hard to read because they are full sized charts shrunken to book size. The Mueller's hand drawn "maps" cut to the chase and provide a fast, simple references to approaches, park facilities, shore-side facilities, fuel docks, buoys, etc. The Muellers are much more informative about individual places. This book is also too large and heavy IMO, it tries to cover too much. I carry real charts anyway, so why screw around with these miniature sized ones.
I'll moor it on my bookshelf and take my old copy of Marge and Ted's book when we leave tomorrow.
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