The Pacific Crossing Guide 3rd edition by RCC Pilotage Foundation Ocean Cruising Club 1472935365 9781472935366

The Pacific Crossing Guide 3rd edition RCC Pilotage Foundation Ocean Cruising Club. – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 1472935365, 9781472935366

Product details:

• ISBN 10:  1472935365
• ISBN 13:  9781472935366
• Author:   RCC Pilotage Foundation Ocean Cruising Club

The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication, health and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs and dangers, the comprehensiveness of this new edition will both inspire dreamers and instil confidence in those about to depart. This new edition has been completely restructured with Part 1 covering thorough preparation for a Pacific crossing and Part 2 covering Pacific weather patterns, major routes and landfall ports, with useful website links throughout. There are completely new sections on rallies, coral atolls and atoll navigation, the cyclone season and laying up, use of electronic charts, satellite phones versus HF radio, ongoing maintenance, and Pacific festivals. Completely updated, expanded and refreshed for the new generation of Pacific cruisers, this is the definitive reference, relied upon by many thousands of cruisers.

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

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

16 Avatiu, Raratonga

17 Neiafu, Vava’u Group

18 Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu

18 Routes between ‘the Islands’ and New Zealand

19 Opua, Bay of Islands, North Island

20 Auckland, North Island

21 Suva, Viti Levu

22 Port Vila, Efate Island

23 Nouméa, New Caledonia

19 Routes to and from Tasmania and the east coast of Australia

24 Bundaberg, Queensland

25 Brisbane, Queensland

26 Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

27 Sydney, New South Wales

28 Hobart, Tasmania

29 Cairns, Queensland

30 Honolulu, Oahu

31 Victoria, British Columbia

32 San Francisco, California

33 Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa

34 Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa

35 Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati

36 Honiara, Guadalcanal

37 Majuro

38 Pohnpei

39 Apra

40 Fukuoka (Hakata), Kyushu

41 Dutch Harbor, Unalaska

42 Kodiak

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