The Exuma Guide: A Cruising Guide to the Exuma Cays

by Stephen J Pavlidis, Don Reynolds (Illustrator)

Overview

This is the new 4th Edition of The Exuma Guide, a cruising guide for all of the Exuma Cays, including the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. It includes every harbor, cove, pass, and anchorage as well as every major reef and sand bank throughout the entire island chain. Features new full-color charts showing latitude, longitude, and distance along with aerial photos, and additional aids to navigation. With full-color aerial harbor photos and full-color sketch charts, it contains extremely accurate hydrographic data based on personally conducted independent surveys by the author. The Exuma Guide 4th ed. also includes extensive navigational instructions, GPS waypoints, approaches and routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history, basic information for cruising in the Exumas, extensive appendices, index, bibliography, and more. Features: New Completely Updated Fourth Edition of this Pavlidis Guide! Full-color Aerial Photos, All Original Charts Based on Perso.nal Surveys Conducted by the Author, Extensive Navigational Instructions, and GPS Waypoints. Coverage Area: Allan's Cay Highborne Cay Norman's Cay Exuma Park Sampson Cay Staniel Cay Black Point Little Farmer's Cay George Town Lee Stocking Island.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948494830
Publisher:	Seaworthy Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	242
Sales rank:	483,896
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Stephen J. Pavlidis cruised the islands of The Bahamas and the Caribbean aboard his 40-foot cutter IV Play beginning in 1989. In 1993, he met Ray Darville, then the Warden of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, who drew Steve into a working relationship as a volunteer Deputy Warden. In this role, Steve quickly gained an intimate knowledge of the waters of the Park and the Exuma Cays.Realizing that the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park deserved a bit more recognition than is given in even the best guides to the area, Steve and Ray produced A Cruising Guide to the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. The favorable response to that publication led to the publication of The Exuma Guide in 1995, covering the entire Exumas island chain in addition to the Park. The Exuma Guide has been thoroughly updated for this new edition. Steve's books are different than most other cruising guides in some very significant ways. All of the charts in Steve's books were created using data personally collected while visiting each area using a computerized system that interfaces GPS and depth soundings.

Don Reynolds whose sketches grace this publication, was born in 1944. Don's love of the sea began at the age of 18 months while crossing the North Atlantic Ocean from England to America aboard the HMS Queen Mary. Subsequent voyages continued from Puerto Rico to New York via transport aboard the Pvt William H. Thomas and across the Pacific Ocean aboard the USS Yorktown and continuing on with his home-built 36' Roberts cutter, Ppalu.Don met Steve during a shakedown cruise to the Exumas in 1996, sharing sketches and knowledge of the area. Ppalu eventually took Don &Lynn (wife) up to the coast of Maine and back before sailing for the Med the next year. Having always worked as an artist, a dream was fully realized in Italy by sculpting marble in Pietrasanta while living aboard Ppalu for three years.The return voyage out of the Med and down to Cape Verde and across again to the Windward Islands began the island hop back through theturquoise and blue waters of the Bahama outer islands. Private and public art commissions consume the present-day activities, but the next dream voyage is still alive and with luck, should come true...while Ppalu patiently waits on her mooring.