Yachting monthly channel havens : secret inlets and secluded anchorages of the Channel by Endean, Ken instant download

Yachting monthly channel havens : secret inlets and secluded anchorages of the Channel by Endean, Ken instant download

1 online resource (x, 166 pages :) :, Channel Havens is a cruising guide with a difference. Recognising that many of us would like to sail away from the crowd, Ken Endean introduces the reader to beautiful, unfrequented places within the Western English Channel, from the Solent to the West Country, Channel Islands and Northern France. Here are sandy bays, coves, reef anchorages and the upper reaches of river estuaries - places neglected by most pilot books - where one can experience the sense of discovery and adventure that is more usually associated with faraway cruising. Anyone who is attracted by the dramatic scenery of unspoil, Includes index, Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Blue water cruising in home waters; Passages and planning Charts Regulations Knowledge; 2 Coastal winds and currents; Winds and shelter Thermal winds Boltholes Coastal currents; 3 Away from the crowds -- in the Solent; Priory Bay Osborne Bay Stanswood Bay Hamstead Point Hurst Totland Bay; Up-river options; The upper Hamble Up the Itchen Western Haven; 4 Coastal waves, Some wave theory Wave refraction caused by shoal water Wave diffraction Effective protection Making the best of a rolling anchorage Wave refraction caused by currents Some more wave theory Overfalls Wind against tide Swell Waves with tide5 Poole Bay to Bolt Head; Studland Bay Swanage Bay; Poole Harbour; Up to Wych Passage; South Purbeck; Worbarrow Bay Lulworth Cove Man o' War Cove; Weymouth Bay; Portland Bill to Torbay; Chesil Cove; Torbay to Bolt Head; Churston Cove Scabbacombe Sands Newfoundland Cove Hallsands Elender Cove; 6 Big Swell, Swell refraction Very long swell Drying harbours Low-tide protection Going ashore by dinghy Temporary calm Rolling stones7 Bolt Head to Land's End; Bigbury Bay; Hope Cove Erme Mouth; Plymouth Sound; Cawsand Bay Barn Pool; Anchorages between Fowey and Dodman Point; Polridmouth Polkerris Portmellon Gorran Haven; Roseland Peninsula; Portloe Portscatho St Mawes St Just; East