Sailingbird's Guide to Tonga
A complete guide to sailing, diving, and exploring Vava'u, the sailing center of Tonga. Sailingbird's guide includes over 150 full-color photographs, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations.
A complete guide to sailing, diving, and exploring Vava'u, the sailing center of Tonga. Sailingbird's guide includes over 150 full-color photographs, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations.
This guide, although 13 years old this year, is still is the most relevant and detailed guidebook around. For the 2 months we spent in Tonga, we used this book every day to help us figure out where to go, what to do once there and really appreciated his photographs and hand-drawn charts. We saw this book on every boat we visited so others feel the same way. It's a classic, be sure to...
We used this guide for all of our travels in French Polynesia from Marquesa, Tuamotu's and the islands of Tahiti and Bora Bora. If you are going to any of these areas, this is the only guide to have (along with a good set of paper charts to supplant your electronic charts of course). The hand-drawn guides and description of each anchorage is detailed and accurate (for the places we...
We spent a number of weeks exploring the islands of the Marquesas in 2015 and found this guide to be invaluable for the detailed information and drawings Joe provides. Despite the fact that is was published in 2000, almost everything was still accurate (proving that life moves slowly in Marquesas!).
As with all the other books in our reviews, we actually use these guides to help us in our passage planning. Panama is a location we will arrive at in early 2015 for some exploration in the San Blas islands followed by a transit of the Panama Canal on our way to the Galapagos and onward to the Pacific. We're on our world circumnavigation and look forward to studying this guidebook in...
Never thought I'd need this cruising guide but, as part of our world circumnavigation, we'll be stopping in Los Roques which is an island archipelago off the north coast of Venezuela. We have several friends who've been there and claim it has the best diving, snorkeling, kite surfing and bone fishing of anywhere in the entire Caribbean. A big claim we are off to prove personally! Look...
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