Anchorages and Marine Parks Paperback – January 20, 2013

A good companion book to Docks and Destinations. This book tells you where you can anchor, what the winds and protection might be or might not be in an area. Good book for someone that is not familiar with the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, and parts of Vancouver BC Island.

Good, a nice and clean used one.

Book has decent descriptions of nice anchorages, but is next to impossible to figure out where any of them are - as to whether they are near where I anchored the previous night. Doesn't appear to be any particular rhyme or reason for how they order them within a chapter. No master map showing where they are in relation to each other. That one simple addition would have made this a decent book. Instead you have to waste hours reading various descriptions until you happen across one that you can get to from where you currently are.

This book is unreasonably DIFFICULT to use, and it's hard to have confidence about the information you glean from it. I spent a week reading each entry in the book from Victoria BC, through the San Juans and Gulf Islands, and north into Desolation Sound. This was most of the book, so a reasonable sample of the whole. Frustrating!! I spent lots of time "flipping back and forth" between the larger and smaller scale charts, to try to place the detailed anchorages; very hard work! Funny little boxes are supposed to make this possible. Then there are the misleading labels, for example two or more "anchor" symbols shown in a harbor area but only one "GPS point" (which "anchor" does it refer to?). Then, there is the distracting and extraneous cute boat symbols, both motor boats and sailboats in motion (signifying NOTHING at all = "chart junk") . . . the anchorages always have "anchor" symbols (fine) but sometimes also have sailboats at rest -- why? The information on some anchorages is taken word for word (cut and paste) from the author's Docks and Destinations (see entries for Fisherman Bay on Lopez). I think this is an unsuccessful attempt by the publisher to get some sales away from the Waggoner Cruising Guide (which inspires confidence with their greater textual and chart detail). I have no particular axe to grind. I want useful accurate complete information. This book disappoints.

lots of information in a small book

Used this for a 10 day sailing trip. Very helpful

not exactly what I was expecting but till some useful information