Books, Gear, Charts

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
Going Aboard
PAPER Ashley's Book of Knots Paperback, used $40 Chapman. Piloting Harbound, 59th Edition. Stolen. Bowditch NGA The American Practical Navigator, 2002. ⇒ free download also see IRBS Engineering, Inc. Medical Guide WHO International Medical Guide for Ships, 2nd Ed. used from $57 Cruising Handbook Nigel Calder. Paperback, used, good checklists Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual Nigel Calder. Hardbound, new, more than I ever wanted to know Chart 1 NGA Nautical Chart Symbols Abbreviations and Terms. ⇒ free download Rules of the Road USCG Navigation Rules ⇒ free download Pilot Admiralty Sailing Directions ⇐ Log book John B. Griffiths DIGITAL Apps Navigation: Maptech Chart Navigator Office Graphics Comms internet & web Toys & games Database Equipment Specs Supplier Part Number Cross List & Equivalents Check Lists Vessel Inventory Spares Supplies Tools Provisions PROM Vessel Blueprint Sailing Directions Bowditch Chart 1 Rules of the Road Charts Ephemeris Updates GPS overlays Software & package backups Downloads Updates
Research, Reading & Planning OBTAINED THROUGH
Practical Sailor ⇐ Practical Boat Buying. Borrowed. ASA Coursework Sailing Fundamentals new $15 Cruising Fundamentals new $15 U.S. Sailing Certification Basic Keelboat. Paperback, new $12 Basic Cruising. Paperback, new $12 Bareboat Cruising. Paperback, new $12 Cruising with your Four-footed Friends Diana Jessie, 2003 Paper 197 pages Seaworthy Publications Inc. 2003 ISBN: 1892399164 The SAIL book of commonsense cruising Patience Wales 2001 Paper 195 pages Sheridan House 2001 ISBN: 1574091212 Modern Cruising Under Sail new $13.57 Don Dodds, 2001 Paper 392 pages The Lyons Press; 5^th edition 2002 ISBN: 1585745278 Good attitude Cruising for Cowards Liza Copeland Romany Enterprises 2000 ISBN: 0969769032 The Living Aboard Report Charlie Wing, 1993 very informative Ready For Sea Tor Pinney. Paperback, used $16 good checklists
GEAR
Navigation and drawing instruments Plastic/Practice Sextant Rules, dividers, scales, pencils Weems & Plath ⇒ Coast Guard kit $80 Hand Bearing Compass. ⇒ Weems & Plath $150 → Nautical Home $113.36 Hand-held GPS Garmin e-Trex ⇒ Defender Industries $99 (2) Sea Gear Safety Harnesses/jack lines Fenders Top Climber Foul Weather Gear: ⇒ Musto Skin diving suits: Kami's in La Paz $50 (2) Shoes & Boots Scrubs SOLAS Hand-held VHF Standard Horizon: Defender Industries $119 EPIRB Flares, smoke, mirrors, whistles We have lots more gear than this now, our inventory includes 165 items covering spares, supplies and equipment, plus tool bags (2), bosn's bag, damage control bag, ditch bag, clothing, toys, and provisions.
Buckets, mops, dunnage
Pots & Pans Utensils Dishes Linens Clothing Cleaning supplies
CHARTS & GUIDES
Maptech Chartkit US & Mexico west coast Point Concepcion to Punta Maldonado including the Gulf of California 58 charts. The ones we actually use: WORLDS3 - The World (West Of Greenwich - North Of Equator) - 1:30000000 21008S0 - Golfo De California - Northern Part - 1:639400 21161S2 - Santa Rosalia Approaches - 1:29000 21161S3 - Port Santa Rosalia - 1:5500 21161S0 - Golfo de California - From Pulpito to Isla San Marcos including Bahia Concepcion - 1:144850 21014S0 - Cabo San Lazaro To Cabo San Lucas - 1:667680 21141S0 - Golfo De California - 1:148000 [San Juanico to Agua Verde, including Puerto Escondido] 21141S1 - Golfo de California - Bahia Agua Verde - 1:24560 21125S0 - La Paz and Approaches- 1:30000 21125S1 - La Paz - 1:10000 *notes:* • There is a chart gap between Agua Verde and La Paz, apart from the small scale 21014S0 - Cabo San Lazaro To Cabo San Lucas at 1:667680. There are no larger-scale charts of those waters except in the cruising guides. • Nautical charts of the Baja and the Gulf of California are notoriously wrong, they are up to 2 minutes 'off' in longitude; the surveys upon which they are based got the topography right but the geography wrong. We know of at least two vessels going hard aground in the past year because their chartplotter said one thing but the bottom said another, two miles different. CRUISING GUIDES Jerry Cunningham's Guides to the Sea of Cortez Charlie's Charts Williams
$Σ as of Monday, March 07, 2005 $195.36
$Σ as of Friday, August 16, 2007 $119,660.10 (including boat and two years operation)
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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

Going Aboard

PAPER
Ashley's Book of Knots: Paperback, used $40
Chapman. Piloting: Harbound, 59th Edition. Stolen.
Bowditch: NGA The American Practical Navigator, 2002. ⇒ free download; also see IRBS Engineering, Inc.
Medical Guide: WHO International Medical Guide for Ships, 2nd Ed. used from $57
Cruising Handbook: Nigel Calder. Paperback, used, good checklists
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: Nigel Calder. Hardbound, new, more than I ever wanted to know
Chart 1: NGA Nautical Chart Symbols Abbreviations and Terms. ⇒ free download
Rules of the Road: USCG Navigation Rules ⇒ free download
Pilot: Admiralty Sailing Directions ⇐
Log book: John B. Griffiths

DIGITAL

Apps

Navigation: Maptech Chart Navigator

Office

Graphics

Comms

internet & web

Toys & games

Database

Equipment

Specs

Supplier

Part Number Cross List
& Equivalents

Check Lists

Vessel Inventory

Spares

Supplies

Tools

Provisions

PROM: Vessel Blueprint; Sailing Directions; Bowditch; Chart 1; Rules of the Road; Charts; Ephemeris; Updates; GPS overlays; Software & package backups
Downloads: Updates

Research, Reading & Planning OBTAINED THROUGH

Practical Sailor ⇐: Practical Boat Buying. Borrowed.
ASA Coursework: Sailing Fundamentals new $15; Cruising Fundamentals new $15
U.S. Sailing Certification: Basic Keelboat. Paperback, new $12; Basic Cruising. Paperback, new $12; Bareboat Cruising. Paperback, new $12
Cruising with your Four-footed Friends: Diana Jessie, 2003 Paper 197 pages; Seaworthy Publications Inc. 2003; ISBN: 1892399164
The SAIL book of commonsense cruising: Patience Wales 2001 Paper 195 pages; Sheridan House 2001; ISBN: 1574091212
Modern Cruising Under Sail new $13.57: Don Dodds, 2001 Paper 392 pages; The Lyons Press; 5^th edition 2002; ISBN: 1585745278; Good attitude
Cruising for Cowards: Liza Copeland; Romany Enterprises 2000; ISBN: 0969769032
The Living Aboard Report: Charlie Wing, 1993; very informative
Ready For Sea: Tor Pinney. Paperback, used $16; good checklists

GEAR

Navigation and drawing instruments: Plastic/Practice Sextant; Rules, dividers, scales, pencils
Weems & Plath ⇒ Coast Guard kit $80; Hand Bearing Compass.
⇒ Weems & Plath $150 → Nautical Home $113.36; Hand-held GPS
Garmin e-Trex ⇒ Defender Industries $99 (2)
Sea Gear: Safety Harnesses/jack lines; Fenders; Top Climber; Foul Weather Gear: ⇒ Musto; Skin diving suits: Kami's in La Paz $50 (2); Shoes & Boots; Scrubs
SOLAS: Hand-held VHF
Standard Horizon: Defender Industries $119; EPIRB; Flares, smoke, mirrors, whistles

We have lots more gear than this now, our inventory includes 165 items covering spares, supplies and equipment, plus tool bags (2), bosn's bag, damage control bag, ditch bag, clothing, toys, and provisions.

Buckets, mops, dunnage

Pots & Pans
Utensils
Dishes
Linens
Clothing
Cleaning supplies

CHARTS & GUIDES

Maptech Chartkit US & Mexico west coast
Point Concepcion to Punta Maldonado
including the Gulf of California
58 charts.

The ones we actually use:: WORLDS3 - The World (West Of Greenwich - North Of Equator) - 1:30000000; 21008S0 - Golfo De California - Northern Part - 1:639400; 21161S2 - Santa Rosalia Approaches - 1:29000; 21161S3 - Port Santa Rosalia - 1:5500; 21161S0 - Golfo de California - From Pulpito to Isla San Marcos including Bahia Concepcion - 1:144850; 21014S0 - Cabo San Lazaro To Cabo San Lucas - 1:667680; 21141S0 - Golfo De California - 1:148000 [San Juanico to Agua Verde, including Puerto Escondido]; 21141S1 - Golfo de California - Bahia Agua Verde - 1:24560; 21125S0 - La Paz and Approaches- 1:30000; 21125S1 - La Paz - 1:10000
notes:: • There is a chart gap between Agua Verde and La Paz, apart from the small scale 21014S0 - Cabo San Lazaro To Cabo San Lucas at 1:667680. There are no larger-scale charts of those waters except in the cruising guides.; • Nautical charts of the Baja and the Gulf of California are notoriously wrong, they are up to 2 minutes 'off' in longitude; the surveys upon which they are based got the topography right but the geography wrong. We know of at least two vessels going hard aground in the past year because their chartplotter said one thing but the bottom said another, two miles different.
CRUISING GUIDES: Jerry Cunningham's Guides to the Sea of Cortez; Charlie's Charts; Williams

$Σ as of Monday, March 07, 2005 $195.36

$Σ as of Friday, August 16, 2007 $119,660.10
(including boat and two years operation)

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