The only comprehensive cruising guide to Nova Scotia including the Bras d'Or Lakes. Includes over 60 charts created by the author. Covers navigation advice, descriptions of harbors and towns, facilities, attractions ashore.

Guide to cruising the coasts of Nova Scotia, Bay of Fundy and Sable Island

The CCA Cruising Guide to Nova Scotia, including New Brunswick's Southwest Coast and the Saint John River, The Bras d'Or Lakes and Cape Breton, and the fabled Sable Island, is a comprehensive nautical guide for anyone planning a small boat cruise to this area. Nova Scotia is a province of scenic beauty and warm, welcoming citizens of many origins and languages. CCA members have authored a set of four cruising guides to the Canadian Maritimes. These detailed guides reflect the authors' personal experiences and are augmented by numerous updates and new material from CCA members and other supportive mariners as they cruise these beautiful and sometimes challenging waters. First published in 1950, these guides enter their 72nd year of continuous publication. A new updated edition for Nova Scotia is now available via nautical bookstores and marine chandleries. The additional three guides cover Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

What Makes Nova Scotia Such A Special Place To Cruise? It has beautiful, scenery, innumerable well-protected anchorages spaced at convenient intervals along more than 350 miles of coastline, an inland sea that offers some of the best sailing in eastern North America, and extraordinarily friendly people in picturesque towns and cities. What Makes This CCA Guide Worth Having Aboard? It includes details of over 200 harbors from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Breton Island and the Bras d'Or lakes. The Guide is filled with navigational advice and recommendations based on reports from very experienced sailors that have been gathered over the past seventy years and distilled into one up-to-date volume. This wealth of information is available only in this printed book format.

A guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors. It advises on the winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather, and optimum times for individual routes, plus over 6,000 waypoints.

The perfect armchair sailing guide, with enough detail to set a person dreaming . . . On July 21, 2004, Silver Donald Cameron and his wife, Marjorie Simmins, set sail from D’Escousse, in Cape Breton Island, toward the white sand beaches and palm trees of the nearest tropical islands. They were sailing an old Norwegian-built ketch named Magnus. Accompanying them was their dog, Leo the Wonder Whippet. Leo was thirteen. The skipper was an old-age pensioner. His youthful mate was new to the cruising life. Yet 236 days later, with more than 3,000 nautical miles behind them, this distinctly trepid crew rowed ashore in Little Harbour, in the Bahamas, heading for Pete’s Pub, a palm-thatched tiki bar on the beach. It had been quite a trip. All three had lost fat and gained muscle. They were not in debt. Friends had remarked that the skipper and mate looked ten years younger, and the ancient Leo was capering about like a puppy. Mind you, there had been bad moments, as in Jonesport, Maine, when the skipper smashed the boat into a wharf and punched a hole in the bow, or the black night off the deadly coast of New Jersey, in a screeching gale with the boat rolling her side decks under. But there had been plenty of thrills, too: fireworks over the Tall Ships in Halifax Harbour; careening down the East River at ten knots with Manhattan whizzing past to starboard; feasting on hush puppies and grits with chicken gravy in Georgia; enjoying the ancient streets of St. Augustine, and the dazzling opulence of Fort Lauderdale. And then, after crossing the Gulf Stream, the Bahamas, complete with coral reefs crowded with tropical fish, yellow and scarlet and black. A long way from the snow and ice back home. From the Hardcover edition.