Cruising Guide To The West Coast Of Vancouver Island

A must for navigating the West Coast of Vancouver Island, this guide explores the magnificent cruising grounds from Cape Scott to Sooke (including Barkley Sound) in easy day passages. Information is given on uncharted rocks & reefs, dangerous currents, favourite anchorages, popular gunk holes, local history & folklore, geology, and flora & fauna. Remote scenic areas of one of British Columbia's last wilderness cruising territories come vividly to life in the superb aerial photography of George McNutt and in a number of photos by author Don Watmough. In the 1998 revision there are supplements on Marine Parks & Accessibility by Small Boat, plus an updated facilities chart.

This cruising atlas is an invaluable planning & navigating tool for exploring the rugged beauty of the west coast of Vancouver Island. Reproductions of Canadian Hydrographic Service charts cover from Victoria to Barkley Sound to Cape Scott to Hope Island. The atlas provides the boater with 21 overview charts, 85 detailed charts, and includes a useful index with a locator chart for 200 locations. While Canadian law requires that official, up-to-date Canadian Hydrographic Service charts be used for navigation in Canadian tidal waters, the charts in this spiral bound atlas are an excellent supplementary tool when piloting from the cockpit or bridge. On-board guests will also appreciate tracing their voyage in this atlas and viewing some of the panoramic photos included from Don Watmough*s Cruising Guide to the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

The Dreamspeaker cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official hydrographic charts, the Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides accurately pinpoint both popular and little-known highlights in British Columbia and Pacific Northwest coastal waters that every sailor, power-boater or kayaker should know. Written in the personal style of a boater's logbook, these guides provide vital information about featured locations, plus notes on recreational activities for adults and children. Here you will find the best spots along the west coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Sooke including Bull Harbour, the Bunsby Islands and Barclay Sound, with full-colour scenic photographs that showcase the splendour of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

With its rugged, rock-studded shoreline, relentlessly crashing ocean swells, miles of sandy beaches, diversity of wildlife and countless coves and bays, Vancouver Island¿s western shoreline, usually referred to simply as the West Coast, presents a challenging and thrilling adventure. Intended to complement official hydrographic charts, Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. With charts, tips and data, this guide pinpoints both popular and little-known highlights to enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage to the West Coast. Written in the personal style of boater¿s logbook, here you will find the best spots from Port Hardy and Cape Scott to Victoria to anchor your boat, share a sunset, browse a gallery, find a hot shower or enjoy a fine meal, with full-colour scenic photographs that showcase the splendour of the Pacific Northwest coast.

With its rugged, rock-studded shoreline, relentlessly crashing ocean swells, miles of sandy beaches, diversity of wildlife and countless coves and bays, Vancouver Island's western shoreline, usually referred to simply as the West Coast, presents a challenging and thrilling adventure. Intended to complement official hydrographic charts, Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. With charts, tips and data, this guide pinpoints both popular and little-known highlights to enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage to the West Coast. Written in the personal style of boater's logbook, here you will find the best spots from Port Hardy and Cape Scott to Victoria to anchor your boat, share a sunset, browse a gallery, find a hot shower or enjoy a fine meal, with full-colour scenic photographs that showcase the splendour of the Pacific Northwest coast.

When Elsie Hulsizer was little, she lived on the shores of Puget Sound in Washington where she spent the summers sailing in a small open sailboat with her parents. Her parents would always start out by sailing to windward, or against the wind, so they would have an easy ride home with the wind pushing them from behind. When Elsie grew up and got married, she and her husband Steve spent their summers sailing out of Puget Sound and up the Strait of Juan de Fuca, always to windward. This challenging course took them up the west coast of Vancouver Island where they were rewarded with a cruising area of spectacular scenery and quiet anchorages that were almost all their own. They spent the next twenty-odd years delightedly exploring the four sounds, several inlets and countless islands, bays, coves and stretches of unprotected coast between Barkley Sound and Brooks Peninsula. On their trips they survived many hair-raising encounters with wild weather and foaming reefs, met interesting people and discovered the intriguing history of a coast undergoing phenomenal changes. Beautifully illustrated with her own excellent photographs, Voyages to Windward is Elsie's account of their quarter-century of discovery, an absorbing, exquisitely crafted story that will delight all sailors whether or not they plan to follow Elsie's windward course.

A guide to unexplored anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage. Just off the Inside Passage's beaten path are countless channels, bays and lagoons that beg exploration. Some are easy, some can be entered only during a few minutes at high water slack. Waggoner correspondents Jennifer and James Hamilton have researched many of these hidden jewels, and provided detailed navigation instructions. Plus history, sights to see, trails and logging roads to walk. Added chapters discuss anchoring techniques, water conservation, food & meal planning, even laundry.