Extensively updated with practical first-hand advice, this fifth edition is the perfect guide for anyone cruising the Mediterranean. Extensively updated with practical first-hand advice, this fifth edition is the perfect guide for anyone cruising the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean is the dream destination for many chartering a yacht as well as long-distance cruisers. Its myriad delights the beautiful coastlines, the remote islands, the sleepy villages and exciting cities draw boaters from all over the world.
Rod Heikell is the undisputed expert on Mediterranean sailing and the Adlard Coles Book of Mediterranean Cruising is the perfect guide for anyone cruising in the area. Thoroughly updated for this fifth edition, the book conveys the magic of Mediterranean cruising, as well as giving practical, first-hand advice on sailing these enticing waters.
Although the Mediterranean provides wonderfully diverse cruising opportunities, it can also deliver a few surprises to the unwary. This invaluable handbook provides sound advice on everything you need to know: anchoring and berthing; what weather to expect; facilities and the costs of keeping a boat there; as well as advice on navigation, popular routes, formalities and what to expect ashore. Each country around the Mediterranean is covered, and there is even a handy section on how to cruise the area on a tight budget.
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The perfect guide for anyone cruising the Mediterranean. Extensively updated, this fifth edition conveys the magic of cruising in these enticing waters, as well as giving practical first-hand advice from the acknowledged expert on sailing in the Mediterranean.
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One The Mediterranean Sea |
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The ten most common questions I'm asked |
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Six Navigating Around The Inland Sea |
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Harbour practice and hazards |
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Nine Mediterranean Passage Planning Guide |
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Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania |
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Syria, Lebanon, Israel Egypt and Libya |
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| Appendix 1 Checklists |
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| Appendix 2 Useful Reading And Websites |
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Rod Heikell has spent over 40 years cruising the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean. Having sailed his own as well as charter and delivery yachts across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean and to South East Asia, it is to the Mediterranean that he always returns. He is the acknowledged expert on Mediterranean sailing and his pilots are referred to by the cruising sailors who rely on them as the bible'.
