Product Description

Find your way around the globe with expert advice

World Cruising Routes covers more than 1,000 sailing routes through the world’s oceans with descriptions of winds, currents and weather, chart recommendations, GPS waypoints, entry ports, navigational hazards, and more. This book is updated with information gathered from the author’s website, noonsite.com, as well as from his recent circumnavigation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18966 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

Review
'By the time a book reaches it's sixth edition you can be pretty sure it's worth buying' Sailing Today (November 2008)

From the Back Cover
'A must for every circumnavigator, and fascinating armchair reading for the rest of us.'--Yachting Monthly. Essential information on over 500 sailing routes worldwide. Waypoints for individual routes. Advice on route planning. Regional Weather. Winds and currents.

About the Author

Jimmy Cornell has logged more than 200,000 sailing miles. He organized the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), founded the World Cruising Club, and initiated the Millennium Round-the-World Rally. He is a columnist for Cruising World.

Customer Reviews

THE 3RD EDITION OF THIS BOOK WAS MY DAILY COMPANION
I did a 4 year circumnavigation on my yacht (a 34 foot steel sloop)and jimmy Cornel "world cruising routes (3rd edition)" was my daily companion. It helped me a great lot to plan cruises and ocean passages. It allowed me to choose the right sailing areas at the right time. Furthemore, whoever is interested in climatology, weather, currents, oceanography will find a wealth of information in this book. The dreamer as well as the sailer will definitely have a good buy with this book.

World Cruising Routes
An absolute necessity for any small yacht going to sea. It is logically compiled and written. Jimmy Cornell has written a book that is exactly what every sailor needs...guidance in getting from port a to port b efficiently, safely, and with the best possible winds and weather.

World Cruising Routes
When planning a circumnavigation one has three choices: 1) Do not plan and accept the extreme dangers of circumnavigation; 2) take a year or more and plan using all available nautical publications, charts, electronic navigation systems; and 3) read and use the outstanding information provided in "World Cruising Routes." This publication will save you time and more important provide excellent tips for short and long passages across the oceans of the world. Cornell has taken the time to consolidate information and plot the important way-points for us.

The most important advice given is the timing of transits. Cornell identifies the risks and the pleasures of circumnavition and avoiding weather disasters. Thanks to Mr. Cornell, sailors who venture forth on the oceans will be safer and more comfortable at sea.