World Cruising Routes 6th Edition: 1000 Routes from the South Seas to the Arctic

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Long established as the bible for long-distance cruisers World Cruising Routes is your comprehensive guide to 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, from the tropical South Seas to the high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic.

Geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors, it contains essential information on winds, currents, and regional and seasonal weather, as well as optimum times for individual routes.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Explanatory Note
• Introduction
• Route Planning
• Principal World Cruising Routes
• Winds and Currents of the World
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Red Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Cruising Guides
• List of Routes

All the necessary information you will need for planning a voyage in any of the world's oceans has been brought together here in a single volume, most of it gathered during the author's three circumnavigations.

The sixth edition assesses the effects of global warming on cruising routes and the behavior of tropical storms and provides more than 6,000 waypoints to assist you in planning individual routes. Main ports of entry as well as essential landfall information are given with each route.

World Cruising Routes is the perfect one-stop reference for planning a cruise anywhere in the world.

About the Author

Jimmy Cornell has logged more than 200,000 sailing miles. He organized the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), founded the World Cruising Club, and initiated the Millennium Round-the-World Rally. He is a columnist for Cruising World.

World Cruising Routes 6th Edition: 1000 Routes from the South Seas to the Arctic