Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands
Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and San Diego. Brian Fagan draws upon more than three decades of experience sailing those waters under all conditions to offer the definitive cruising guide for both sailors and powerboaters.
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"An exceptional book."—SAILThe Definitive Guide for Sailors and PowerboatersThe coast of Central and Southern California offers some of the most extraordinary—and challenging—cruising in the world. Whether you're planning a cruise of the Channel Islands, a weekend on Catalina Island, or an offshore passage around Point Conception, you'll want expert guidance. The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California provides comprehensive coverage of all the anchorages and harbors from the Golden Gate Bridge to Ensenada, Mexico, including the offshore islands. It includes historical background, information on local weather and cruising conditions, passagemaking strategies for sailors and powerboaters, and photographs of all ports and anchorages as they appear from the water. Brian Fagan has sailed these waters for over thirty years and has visited every port and anchorage in the book, most of them many times. His Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California will give you all the information you need for a safe, comfortable, and spectacular cruise."One of the best cruising guides we have ever seen."—National Fisherman"This is the most complete set of sailing directions to come off the presses since the first coast surveys were attempted in the early 1800s."—SEA magazineBrian Fagan is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally known archaeologist with more than thirty books to his credit. An avid sailor for four decades, Brian has sailed many thousands of miles in California, Europe, and the Caribbean.
PrefaceviBackground1The Fog Hangs On3Weather and Wind18Passagemaking Strategies45Exploring Southern California Waters in Small Craft62Region 1Golden Gate to Point Conception77Golden Gate to San Simeon Bay79Morro Bay to Point Conception and Cojo Anchorage106Region 2Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands123Mainland: Cojo Anchorage to Santa Barbara125Mainland: Santa Barbara to Point Mugu151San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands171Santa Cruz Island: North Coast195Santa Cruz Island: South Coast227Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, and San Clemente Islands247Region 3Point Mugu to Ensenada, Mexico (Including Santa Catalina Island)269Mainland: Point Mugu to Huntington Harbor271Santa Catalina Island298Mainland: Newport Beach to Ensenada, Mexico334Index369
