Pacific Cruising Guides
The most important - and indispensable - guides to crossing to the South Pacific and enjoying its many splendors.

You need these to plan ahead and to guide your trip once you're gone. You should always have paper charts aboard and these guides can provide you with paper details of ports and harbors.

Be sure to get some TRAVEL books to fill in the local and cultural details BEFORE you arrive at you destinations. Click "Travel: South Pacific" for them.
World Cruising RoutesThe Pacific Crossing Guide : Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation in Association With the Ocean Cruising ClubLandfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide to the Pacific Islands (Latitude 20 Books)
World Cruising Routes
by Jimmy Cornell

This is today's successor to the old Sailing Directions, and essential for planning long distance sailing.
The Pacific Crossing Guide : Royal Cruising...
by Michael Pocock
$43.44
An invaluable guide for anyone planning a Pacific crossing, whether as part of a circumnavigation or to explore the Pacific is...
Landfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide to th...
by Earl R. Hinz
$31.01
This standard cruising guide for the Eastern and Western South Pacific covers Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. It's loade...
Charlie's Charts of PolynesiaSouth Pacific Anchorages 2nd ed.Guide to Navigation and Tourism in French Polynesia
Charlie's Charts of Polynesia
by Charles Wood

Excellent detailed charts of all the anchorages you will most likely visit, with sketches that help to identify landforms.
South Pacific Anchorages 2nd ed.
by Warwick Clay
$78.95
Clay's book is an enormous resource and very useful, even if his judgements sometims seem a bit harsh.
Guide to Navigation and Tourism in French P...
by Patrick Bonnette
Tahiti & French Polynesia (Country Guide)Rarotonga & the Cook Islands (Country Guide)Samoan Islands & Tonga (Multi Country Guide)
Tahiti & French Polynesia (Country Guide)
by Becca Blond
$22.99
Rarotonga & the Cook Islands (Country G...
by Oliver Berry
Samoan Islands & Tonga (Multi Country G...
by Paul Smitz
$16.49