Product Description

The Inside Passage to Alaska is one of the world's most spectacular trips for cruising boaters. Each summer Alaska's sheltered waters, picturesque islands, deeply cut fjords, icebergs, and tidewater glaciers-along with outstanding flora and fauna-draw hundreds of adventurers who experience the beauty and challenges of this magnificent wilderness.
"Exploring Southeast Alaska - Second Edition" covers in unique detail every harbor and cove between Dixon Entrance and Skagway. With this best-selling reference of expert local knowledge, you can plan and execute your voyage with confidence and safety. Special features include the exact GPS waypoints for each cove entrance and anchor site, detailed diagrams, and customized itineraries from the San Juan Islands to Glacier Bay.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #262505 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 532 pages

Review
"The book is stunning. Nobody has given the cruising community what this book gives. You have just created a classic." --R.H., Seattle Publisher

About the Author
Authors Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass have logged more than 170,000 cruising miles over the past 35 years from 60°N to 63°S latitude. Since 1991, they have spent their summers cruising on their trawler, Baidarka, gathering data for new titles and updating their acclaimed Exploring series of nautical guidebooks. Together they have documented 6,000 anchor sites between San Diego and the Alaska Peninsula.
Don began exploring Alaskan waters as a youth living in Ketchikan. He has sailed the West Coast and the Inside Passage on everything from a 21-foot sailboat to a commercial fishing boat and a Coast Guard icebreaker. He holds a BSEE degree from California State University and a Masters in Business Economics from Claremont Graduate University. Don is an honorary member of the International Association of Cape Horners and, as the author of several mountain biking guidebooks and a father of the sport, he was elected to the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame.
Reanne, who holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College, attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of Grenoble, France. Sailor, writer, cyclist and language teacher, Reanne s articles have appeared in numerous outdoor magazines. Her classic, Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare has been published in French and Italian. Reanne led the first women s bicycling team to cross Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. In 2008, she finally signed the register atop Cape Horn Island during Don's second visit.

Customer Reviews

Invaluable resource
My wife and I recently completed a 3-month trip from the San Juan Islands in Washington to Glacier Bay, Alaska and back. We enjoyed relying on this guide for general information (weather, border crossings, etc.) and for its very comprehensive and, based on our experience, very accurate information concerning just about any place in SE Alaska someone on a boat might think about going. The book is well-organized and easy to use. It has excellent map graphics that are very convenient for "big picture" itinerary discussions. It provides lots of information about anchoring depths and bottom characteristics and provides waypoints for suggested anchoring sites. There are also a great many suggestions for on-shore exploring and up-to-date and helpful information about all the significant cities and towns you might encounter. All in all, this would be a wise investment for anyone contemplating cruising in SE Alaska.