AMC's Best Sea Kayaking in New England: 50 Coastal Paddling Adventures from Maine to Connecticut

by Michael Daugherty

Overview

This concise guide, written by Registered Maine Guide and inveterate paddler Michael Daugherty, features 50 of the best sea kayaking adventures along the New England coast, from Maine’s Bold Coast south to the mouth of the Connecticut River. These are trips that can be done in a day or turned into an overnight, perfect for beginner to intermediate kayakers looking to explore the storied coastlines of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The book includes day trips near large northeastern cities like New York City and Boston. Each of the trips features a full description and map of the route, plus bullets on distance and time, where to launch, tide and currents, “plan B” routes, and nearby attractions. An at-a-glance trip planner and a selection of nature and history essays round out the offerings in this essential sea kayaker’s guidebook.Also Available:Quiet Water Maine, 2e by Alex Wilson and John Hayes 978-1-929173-65-5Quiet Water Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, 3e 978-1-628420-00-5AMC's Best Sea Kayaking in the Mid-Atlantic by Michaela Gaaserud 978-1-328420-06-7

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628420067
Publisher:	Appalachian Mountain Club Books MA
Publication date:	04/07/2016
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	661,252
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SHORT BIO: Michael Daugherty is a Registered Maine Guide and an ACA-certified sea kayaking instructor. He writes for Sea Kayaker, Ocean Paddler and AMC Outdoors magazines and documents his sea kayaking experience online at SeaKayakStonington.blogspot.com. He lives in Stonington, ME.LONG BIO: Michael Daugherty is a Registered Maine Guide and an ACA-certified sea kayaking instructor at Pinniped Kayak. He writes for Sea Kayaker, Ocean Paddler and AMC Outdoors magazines and documents his sea kayaking experiences online at SeaKayakStonington.blogspot.com. He lives in Stonington, ME.

Table of Contents

Locator Map At-A-Glance Trip Planner Acknowledgements Introduction How to Use This Book Safety and Seamanship Equipment Stewardship and Conservation Downeast Maine 1. Cobscook Bay 2. The Bold Coast: West Quoddy to Moose Cove 3. The Bold Coast: Cutler to Moose Cove 4. Machias Bay 5. Englishman Bay 6. The Great Wass Archipelago 7. Bois Bubert Island The Acadia Region and Penobscot Bay 8. East Frenchman Bay 9. The Porcupine Islands 10. The Cranberry Islands 11. Placentia, Black, and Gott Islands 12. Bartlett Island 13. Swans Island 14. The Stonington Archipelago 15. Isle au Haut 16. Pond, Great Spruce Head, and Butter Islands 17. The Fox Islands 18. South of Islesboro 19. Muscle Ridge Midcoast and Casco 20. Muscongus Bay 21. Damariscove Island 22. Georgetown Island 23. Sebascodegan Island 24. Upper Casco Bay 25. East Casco Bay 26. West Casco Bay Boston to Kittery 27. Gerrish Island 28. Isles of Shoals 29. Plum Island 30. Castle Neck 31. Cape Ann 32. Boston Outer Islands Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard 33. Duxbury Harbor 34. Barnstable 35. Wellfleet 36. Provincetown 37. Monomoy Islands 38. Waquoit Bay 39. Chappaquiddick 40. Gay Head Buzzards Bay to Long Island Sound 41. West Island 42. Westport River 43. Prudence Island 44. Newport 45. Jamestown 46. Little Narragansett Bay 47. Mystic 48. Old Lyme 49. Thimble Islands 50. Norwalk Islands Essays The Bold Coast Ancient Rock Carvings in Machias Bay Fog Seals The Merits of Following the Shore Paddling Among Lonster Boats Preserving the Coast Lobsters Who Owns the Intertidal Zone? Exploring Tide Pools The Blackburn Challenge Sea Serpents Lobster Harvesting Sharks Jamestown Circumnavigation Appendix A: Information and Resources Appendix B: Float Plan Appendix C: More Reading