Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die

Santella Chris

Description

Landlubbers joke that sailors are always wanting to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In this, the third installment in his immensely successful Fifty Places series, Santella assembles a crew of the worlds greatest championship racers and professional adventurers and persuades them to disclose their favorite destinations around the globe.Interviewees include some of the best-known men and women in the sport: Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 Americas Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardy, and many others. The amazingly diverse places theyve selected range from clubby East Coast ports (Marblehead, Annapolis), to idyllic tropical refuges (Ilha Grande, Brazil; the Polynesian atoll of Mopelia), to some of the most hair-raisingly treacherous waters on earth (Cape Horn).Coastlines around the worldeven Antarctica and the Arcticare represented, and the chosen spots include some spectacular inland waters, such as the Bras dOr Lakes and the North Channel of Lake Huron. For each of the 50 places, the sailor recommending the venue spins an entertaining yarn about his or her experience there, and each description is accompanied by a "make you want to go there now" photograph.

Sujets

• Sailing

Informations

• Publié par: ABRAMS BOOKS
• Date de parution: 16 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781613120637
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Other Books by Chris Santella

Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales
Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die
Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die
Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die
Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die
Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die

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To Deidre, Cassidy Rose, and Annabel Blossom, who ve been unwaveringly patient and generous with their time so I might pursue my dream of writing books.
Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
THE DESTINATIONS

1 Alaska: Resurrection Bay
RECOMMENDED BY DEBORAH ALTERMATT
2 Antarctica: Antarctic Peninsula
RECOMMENDED BY GARY JOBSON
3 Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua
RECOMMENDED BY MIKE SANDERSON
4 Australia: Fremantle
RECOMMENDED BY THOMAS A.WHIDDEN
5 Australia: Sydney
RECOMMENDED BY MATTH AYES
6 Bermuda: St. George s Harbor
RECOMMENDED BY B. W. JOR DY WALKER
7 Brazil: Bay of Ilha Grande
RECOMMENDED BY LIN PARDEY
8 California: Channel Islands
RECOMMENDED BY J.J. ISLER
9 California: San Francisco Bay
RECOMMENDED BY GLENN ISAACSON
10 Chile: Cape Horn
RECOMMENDED BY AMANDA SWAN NEAL
11 China: Hong Kong
RECOMMENDED BY GEORGE STROME
12 Colorado: Lake Dillon
RECOMMENDED BY NICK IWASKOW
13 Connecticut: Eastern Long Island Sound
RECOMMENDED BY CHARLIE OLSEN AND ADMIRAL ROBERT C.OLSEN, JR.
14 Croatia: Dalmatian Coast
RECOMMENDED BY JONWILSON
15 Ecuador: The Gal pagos
RECOMMENDED BY AMY ULLRICH
16 Florida: Biscayne Bay
RECOMMENDED BY SEAN FERRELL
17 Florida: Key West
RECOMMENDED BY BRIAN BISSELL
18 France: Hy res
RECOMMENDED BY LAWRENCE WHITE
19 French Polynesia: Mopelia
RECOMMENDED BY JOHN NEAL
20 Greece: Dodecanese Islands
RECOMMENDED BY DIANE EDWARD S
21 Hawaii: Lahaina to Honolulu
RECOMMENDED BY MIKE ROTHWELL
22 Illinois: Chicago (Lake Michigan)
RECOMMENDED BY JANET C. BAXTER
23 Italy: Costa Smeralda, Sardinia
RECOMMENDED BY SEAN HEALEY
24 Maine: Boothbay Harbor
RECOMMENDED BY TIMOTHY S. HODGDON
25 Maine: Penobscot Bay
RECOMMENDED BY JOHN WORTH
26 Maine: Southwest Harbor
RECOMMENDED BY JENNIFER FRENCH
27 Maryland: Annapolis
RECOMMENDED BY WILLIAM CHAMBERS
28 Massachusetts: Buzzards Bay
RECOMMENDED BY PETER MELLO
29 Massachusetts: Marblehead
RECOMMENDED BY NICK KIP
30 Mexico: Baja California Sur
RECOMMENDED BY LARRY PARDEY
31 New York: New York Harbor
RECOMMENDED BY BILLY BLACK
32 New Zealand: Auckland
RECOMMENDED BY PENNY WHITING
33 Norway: Spitsbergen
RECOMMENDED BY ONNE VAN DER WAL
34 Nova Scotia: Bras d Or Lake
RECOMMENDED BY JOHN BRYSON
35 Ontario: Lake Huron s North Channel
RECOMMENDED BY MARK STEVENS
36 Rhode Island: Newport
RECOMMENDED BY JEFF JOHNSTONE
37 Scotland: Firth of Clyde
RECOMMENDED BY SANDY TAGGART
38 The Republic of Seychelles: The Seychelles
RECOMMENDED BY PENELOPE KELLIE
39 South Africa: Cape Town
RECOMMENDED BY MILES OSLER
40 Sweden: Stockholm Archipelago
RECOMMENDED BY THOMAS RAPP
41 Thailand: Andaman Sea
RECOMMENDED BY HERB MCCORMICK
42 Tonga: Ha apai
RECOMMENDED BY CARL HOSTICKA
43 Turkey: The Blue Coast
RECOMMENDED BY SUSAN MAFFEI PLOWDEN
44 United Kingdom: British Virgin Islands
RECOMMENDED BY TANYA WHISTLER
45 United Kingdom: The Solent and Beyond
RECOMMENDED BY ADRIAN MORGAN
46 United Kingdom: South Georgia Island
RECOMMENDED BY SKIP NOVAK
47 Vermont: Lake Champlain
RECOMMENDED BY JUSTIN ASSAD
48 Vietnam: Nha Trang
RECOMMENDED BY KEVIN QUILTY
49 Washington: San Juan Islands
RECOMMENDED BY TIM MEHRER
50 Windward Islands: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
RECOMMENDED BY STEVE MASON
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the generous assistance of the expert sailors who shared their time and experiences to help bring these fifty great sailing venues to life. To these men and women, I offer the most heartfelt thanks. I would especially like to thank Sue Maffei Plowden (Suma, to her friends), who offered much advice and countless introductions to her vast circle of sailing pals. I also want to acknowledge the fine efforts of my editors Jennifer Levesque, Dervla Kelly, and Kate Norment, designer Paul Wagner, and copyeditors Sylvia Karchmar and Elizabeth Norment, who helped bring the book into being despite a deadline baby (Jennifer s first, Veronica Rose) and a very late manuscript delivery. These folks do a wonderful job; as I m fond of saying, if the words are half as good as the aesthetics of the book itself, it won t be a terrible read! Thanks should also go to my agent Stephanie Kip Rostan, who talked me off the ledge on more than one occasion (due to said late manuscript delivery). Last, I d like to thank my parents, who didn t insist that I take sailing lessons, but encouraged me to try new things and constantly expand my horizons . . . and my wife, Deidre, and daughters, Cassidy Rose and Annabel Blossom, who have shown such tremendous love, patience, and support as I wrestle against deadline after deadline.
FOREWORD
Water occupies over 70 percent of the planet Earth, providing a multitude of sailing venues, from high-latitude exploration to sultry equatorial islands and all of the seas, bays, and lakes in between. To some offshore sailors these waterways provide highways to travel from place to place; to racing sailors they are a unique playing field that is ever changing with the weather; to cruising sailors they provide a peaceful setting to while away time-and for all, being at sea is a welcome break from life ashore.
Working in the sailing industry around the world has provided me with a lifetime of opportunities to make friends who share a common bond of spending time on the water. Often we return to the same places-a favorite regatta in Newport or Sardinia, a familiar anchorage in Maine or New Zealand-while other times an invitation to try something new takes us farther afield-to Turkey, Antarctica, or the fjords of Alaska.
In Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die, Chris Santella has interviewed professional sailors, writers, boatbuilders, former Olympians, sailing instructors, yachting photographers, and others to find out their favorite places, and has endeavored to bring these places to life. Some of these you may know, but the description of others is likely to spur you on to pack your duffle and head out to explore some intriguing destinations.
In ports and harbors around the world there are always people to be found doing just what we all like to do: mess around in boats in a special place. I hope this title helps lead you to new ports and new friends.
- SUSAN MAFFEI PLOWDEN
On the Sea of Cortez, cruisers enjoy calm waters and a reliable afternoon breeze.

INTRODUCTION
I will be the first to admit that my sailing experience is somewhat limited: a season s worth of sailing lessons at Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club in the summer of 1975, with a cruel crewmate who yelled Shark! each time we tacked (this, take note, was the year that Jaws was released); and several corporate events that transpired on sailboats in the San Francisco Bay where I was compelled to discuss the benefits of various technologies that I didn t fully understand (as the marketing guy, I was not required to understand much of anything). Despite these rather unpromising forays into the sport, I must say that several key facets of sailing-a chance to be outside on the water in the company of friends, perhaps in the spirit of gentlemanly competition-have always been appealing. When the opportunity to write Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die arose, I saw it as a chance to explore this passion that grips millions of men and women around the world.
To expand my horizons-and to get a real aficionado s sense of what the sailing experience offers-I followed a recipe that served me well in my first two Fifty Places books: seeking the advice of some professionals. I interviewed a host of people closely connected with the sport to learn about some of their favorite waters and sailing experiences. These experts range from professional sailors (like Gary Jobson and Mike Sanderson) to boat builders (like Jeff Johnstone) to Olympians (like J. J. Isler) to journalists and photographers (like Herb McCormick and Billy Black) to instructors (like Penny Whiting) to educators (like Peter Mello) to adventurers (like Skip Novak and Lin and Larry Pardey). Some spoke of waters that are near and dear to their hearts, others spoke of places they ve only visited once but that made a profound impression. People appreciate sailing for many different reasons, and this range of attractions is evidenced here. (To give a sense of the breadth of their sailing backgrounds, a biography of each individual is included after each essay.)
While this book comprises fifty great sailing experiences, it by no means attempts to rank the places discussed, or the quality of the experience each body of water affords. Such ranking is largely subjective; the venue that might be appealing to a serious racer could very well be anathema to a weekend cruiser. In this spirit, the places are listed alphabetically by state or country.
In the hope that a few readers might embark on adventures of their own, I have provided some brief If You Go information at the end of each chapter. It is by no means exhaustive, and no attempt has been made to address the many concerns an international cruiser needs to consider (that is well beyond the scope of this project). However, it s hoped that these notes will give would-be travelers a starting point for planning their trip. This information includes basic getting there options for those who might be traveling by air and chartering a boat; the best time to visit, based on climate and nautical goings-on; charter options for bareboaters (or skippered cruises if no bareboat options are available