BC Crusing Guide

Wandering Sagebrush · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:33 am Post subject: BC Crusing Guide

We are planning on a trip to BC, probably in the Telegraph Cove area, this coming September. Can anyone recommend the best cruising guide (published or personal experience) for the area. Planning on chasing some fish/prawns/crabs, watching the Orcas, and visiting cultural sites such as Mamalilacula. If you want to respond offline, our email address is sparsons@canby.com.

Kind Regards,

Steve and Diana

Pat Anderson · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: Re: BC Crusing Guide

I think two should get you nicely started. The essential source of basic information for crusing from Olympia through the Inside Passage is Waggoner Cruising Guide, it is updated every year. For the personal stuff, any book by Don and Reanne Douglass covering the area you are interested in...I have only scanned the Douglass books, not really cozied up with them yet. But they look good and come with good recommendations.

El and Bill · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:37 am Post subject:

Concur with Pat and Patty's good recs. We have used the Douglass guides and they are excellent -- we consider them must haves.

Luna C · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:58 am Post subject:

How about Charlie's Charts? (North to Alaska) Anyone used this resource?

Larry H · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:23 am Post subject:

Charlies Charts, North to Alaska is good.

For an historical guide book written by a local, try "Full Moon Flood Tide" by Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk. Bill has lived and comercially fished the Broughton Archipellago since he was a child. He lives at Echo Bay, about 30 miles east of Telegraph Cove, and has built a museum there.

Two other guide books are: "Docks and Destinations" and "Anchorages and Marine Parks", by Peter Vassilopoulos.

Wandering Sagebrush · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:22 am Post subject:

Thank you!! We appreciate the great information.

Steve

El and Bill · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

El's favorite reading book about the BC country (not a guidebook -- an historical and interesting book), to curl up with on a cold frosty night in a forgotten BC harbour, is The Curve of Time, by M. Wylie Blanchet -- a classic!

Catman · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

That woman was really something.

Pat Anderson · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject:

OK, I have now cozied up to the Douglass book Exploring the South Cost of British Columbia. This is a MUST HAVE. Although more limited in coverage than Waggoner, it is more detailed, and most importantly, it includes GPS coordinates for every entry - when I get my new Raymarine C-80, the first thing I am going to do is enter waypoints for the "must see" destinations...