This updated comprehensive cruising guide to all the world's oceans is a valuable reference for cruising sailors and armchair dreamers. More than 500 sailing routes are detailed, including 40 new routes to such high-latitude destinations as Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica. The book includes 64 pages of 2-color maps, updated Gps coordinates for navigation, and route-by-route descriptions of weather and hazards.

Loaded with carefully researched sketch charts and local knowledge, this guide is the most current and comprehensive cruising guide available to the maginificent Exuma Cays-and an excellent guide to the Exuma Cays Land and Sea park. Pavlidis, former deputy warden of the park, gudie you in and out of virtually every navigable harbor, cover, and anchorage, as well as around every major reef, head, sand bank, and obstacle throughout the Exuma island chain. Contains information on marine facilities, customs, navigational aids, tides and curents, GPS waypoints, flora and fauna, and much more.

The second section in the book is called Off The Beaten Path, and that is exactly where it takes you, to those areas where few cruisers venture. Here you'll discover in great detail the waters of the Jumentos, the Crooked/Acklins District, Samana, The Plana Cays, Mayaguana, Hogsty Reef, Inagua, and Little Inagua. Here you'll find that these outer islands are definitely within the reach of George Town based cruisers who wish for a little more variety to their cruising than their annual pilgrimage to Mecca provides. This is the first time that the Jumentos have been shown in any detail whatsoever, and this is such a beautiful and pristine island chain! French Wells, Lovely Bay, and Attwood Harbour in the Crooked Acklins District are now destinations that no longer seem daunting. You'll find that the anchorage at Samana is really quite good in all wind directions and that Inagua has some fantastic shore side attractions to explore.

In the Turks Islands, I have tried to make it easier for cruisers to enter the wonderful, protected anchorage at North Lake on Grand Turk. The forbidding entrance is well charted and if you follow the instructions, you should not run into problems. Stop by and visit charming, old world flavored, Salt Cay. And if you're preparing for the jump to the DR, you'll find out just how good a waiting spot Great Sand Cay can be. Once you approach the waypoint at Luperón, you'll discover that unlike cruisers in the past, you now have a decent chart to get you into the anchorage. And what a destination Luperón is! Living is easy here and lots of folks don't want to move on for a while, they'd rather stay and sample the ambiance and good prices on beer, wine, cigarettes, and dining out. For those that do head on, or plan to skip Luperón entirely, I include a chart of Puerto Plata and describe in detail shore side attractions on that stretch of the DR coast.

Street's Guides are the result of his 44 years of Caribbean experience--his first guide to the Virgin Islands (1964) has been expanded over the years to cover the entire eastern Caribbean. These guides give the mariner all the information needed to safely cruise the area, not only piloting information but also interesting background information on people, places and history.