Sailing Around Nantucket: A Guide to Cruising Nantucket Waters

by Alfie Sanford, Nathaniel Philbrick (Foreword by)

Overview

Any sailor or powerboater laying a course for Nantucket is going to love this cruising guide.

With full-color chart details and photos (both aerial and on-the-water), illustrated endsheets, and chapters on Nantucket piloting, weather, tides and currents, anchorage, history, and shoreside attractions, this book unites beauty and utility to an unusual degree. Yacht designer Alfie Sanford has been sailing around Nantucket all his life. When he tells us to tack over to starboard just past the green can marking the end of the second dry shoal entering Eel Point channel, do it. He’s been there, and he knows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780884487852
Publisher:	Tilbury House Publishers
Publication date:	05/28/2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Yacht designer Alfred “Alfie” Sanford began sailing around Nantucket when he was two or three years old: he’s not sure which. Nine years later he took a first overnight cruise in his 12-foot Rainbow catboat, anchoring and sleeping on the Horseshed shoal across the harbor from town. In recent decades he has sailed across the Atlantic four times and cruised around Ireland, Scotland, Norway, and the Eastern Mediterranean in his 57-foot yawl Impala, always returning to the waters of Nantucket.

Nathaniel Philbrick is the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition. He lives in Nantucket.

Editorial Reviews

"AFaraway Land: Nantucket is one of the top bucket-list destinations for cruisers. And that’s not surprising, given the scenic vistas, safe harbors and the unique ruggedness of the place. Filled with illustrations, aerial photographs, anchorage tips and information on weather, tides, currents and much more, Sailing Around Nantucket is the perfect companion for any sailor or powerboater set on exploring the island’s bucolic shoreline. Written by yacht designer Alfie Sanford, the compact cruising guide is loaded with local knowledge based on his many years navigating and enjoying this idyllic spit of sand in the ocean."

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