Exploring the Pacific Coast: San Diego to Seattle, 1st Ed.
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0938665715 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 491 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Reanne Hemingway-Douglass holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College. She attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of Grenoble, France. Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass have logged more than 170,000 cruising miles over the past 30 years-from South America to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians.
alexusSimply Amazing! What a wonderful book! We're planning a trip from San Francisco to Seattle and the information in this book is not only detailed, the GPS waypoints make the routing very, very simple.. 09 said Simply Amazing!. What a wonderful book! We're planning a trip from San Francisco to Seattle and the information in this book is not only detailed, the GPS waypoints make the routing very, very simple.. "Not quite in the same league as his others" according to A Customer. Douglass is the victim of his own excellence. I have used his cruising books for Puget Sound, BC, and Alaska and have found them superb. This one is not quite in the same league.An annoying nit is that it includes a lot of page fillers, such as suggested routes to Alaska (reproduced from his Alaskan guide. Very good Excellent guide. Gives information just not available anywhere else. Almost as good as having a friend in every bay!
With the local knowledge in this breakthrough guidebook, the entire Pacific Coast becomes "local boating". The entrance bars of the northern coast are detailed with Proven Cruising Routes, numerous aerial photographs and key local knowledge. Also included are excerpts from the Coast Pilot, first-hand accounts of Fine Edge research trips on Baidarka and significant contributions by well-known cruising experts Bob and Carolyn Mehaffy, Ann Kinner, Roderick Nash, Kevin Monahan and Michelle and Jerry Gaylord. Covered in exacting detail are all the boating areas: San Diego to Santa Barbara, every anchor site in the outstanding Channel Islands, the greater SF Bay Area, the lower Columbia River, and the greater Puget Sound. Every gunkhole along the entire Pacific Coast offering temporary or overnight shelter is documented, including at
She is the first woman to have bicycled across Tierra del Fuego. Together, the Douglasses have documented over 8,000 anchor sites in their six highly acclaimed guidebooks. About the Author Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass have logged more than 170,000 cruising miles over the past 30 years-from South America to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. Don, who began exploring Northwest waters in 1949 as a youth, has sailed the Inside Passage on everything from a 26-foot pleasure craft and commercial fishing boats to a Coast Guard icebreaker. He holds a BSEE degree from California State University and a Masters in Business Economics from Claremont Graduate University. Reanne Hemingway-Douglass holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College. Don holds honorary membership in the International Association of Cape Horners