The Pacific Crossing Guide 4th edition, 9781399407014
Hardcover
Sail the Pacific with confidence: your ultimate planning and navigation guide.

The Pacific Crossing Guide 4th edition

Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation

$158.91

  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    3 February 2025

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Summary

‘The definitive work on Pacific crossings’ Cruising

The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication, health and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs and dangers, this comprehensive new edition will both inspire dreamers and instil confidence in those about to depart.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399407014
ISBN-10:1399407015
Author:Francis Hawkings
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Edition:4th
Release Date:3 February 2025
Weight:1.36kg
Dimensions:280mm x 222mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This is both a hardcore planning guide and a gorgeous dreamer’s bible. The whole Pacific is at your fingertips in this updated edition. * 48 North (review of 3rd edition) *A magnum opus of excellence * Flying Fish (review of 3rd edition) *Photographs, charts and diagrams help make this one of the definitive reference books for any Pacific voyage. * Soundings US (review of 3rd edition) *A complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. * Yachting Times (review of 3rd edition) *The go-to guide for transpacific sailors * Cruising Club of America *

About The Author

Francis Hawkings

The Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation was founded in 1976 with the objective of advancing ‘the education of the public in the science and practice of navigation’. Its members write and continually update pilot books.

Francis Hawkings has owned the Tradewind 35 Plainsong since 1992, in which he has sailed some 35,000 ocean miles in the North and South Pacific, the South Atlantic and the Caribbean. He has rounded Cape Horn and sailed singlehanded from Hawaii to Japan.

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