Title Statements
- Full title :The Pacific crossing guide / Kitty van Hagen.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
- Edition:3rd edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Adlard Coles Nautical an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 244 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; : 31 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1472935349, 9781472935342
- oclc:on1016492231
- LC Classification:VK915
- Dewey Decimal:623.89/224
Table of Contents
Part 1: Preparations. 1. Casting Off -- 2. The Pacific Ocean -- 3. Preparing the boat -- 4. Staying Safe -- 5. Navigation and charting -- 6. Communications -- 7. The balance of power -- 8. Routine maintenance and spares -- 9. Provisioning and store keeping -- 10. Common health problems while cruising -- 11. Managing the paperwork -- 12. Cyclone season and laying up -- Part 2: Passage Planning. 13. Pacific weather and weather forecasts -- Ports and harbours. 14. Routes to the Marquesas -- 15. French Polynesia (the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands) -- 16. Southern routes via Easter Island or direct -- 17. Bora Bora to Tonga and Samoa via the Cook Islands -- 18. Routes between 'the Islands' and New Zealand -- 19. Routes to and from Tasmania and the East Coast of Australia -- 20. Routes to and from Hawaii in the East Pacific -- 21. Routes south and west from Hawaii -- 22. Routes north from New Zealand to Japan and Alaska -- Appendix A: When all else has failed -- Appendix B: Suggested further reading -- Appendix C: Great Circle distance table -- Appendix D: Glossary of British and American terms -- Appendix E: Metric conversions.
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