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The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands Paperback – September 27, 2001

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Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and San Diego. Brian Fagan draws upon more than three decades of experience sailing those waters under all conditions to offer the definitive cruising guide for both sailors and powerboaters.

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Brian Fagan is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally known archaeologist with more than thirty books to his credit. An avid sailor for four decades, Brian has sailed many thousands of miles in California, Europe, and the Caribbean.

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"An exceptional book."--SAIL

The Definitive Guide for Sailors and Powerboaters

The coast of Central and Southern California offers some of the most extraordinary--and challenging--cruising in the world. Whether you're planning a cruise of the Channel Islands, a weekend on Catalina Island, or an offshore passage around Point Conception, you'll want expert guidance. The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California provides comprehensive coverage of all the anchorages and harbors from the Golden Gate Bridge to Ensenada, Mexico, including the offshore islands. It includes historical background, information on local weather and cruising conditions, passagemaking strategies for sailors and powerboaters, and photographs of all ports and anchorages as they appear from the water. Brian Fagan has sailed these waters for over thirty years and has visited every port and anchorage in the book, most of them many times. His Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California will give you all the information you need for a safe, comfortable, and spectacular cruise.

"One of the best cruising guides we have ever seen."--National Fisherman

"This is the most complete set of sailing directions to come off the presses since the first coast surveys were attempted in the early 1800s."--SEA magazine

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1st edition (September 27, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071374647
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071374644
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.78 x 9.3 inches
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Brian Fagan was born in England and studied archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, from 1959-1965. During six years in Zambia and one in East Africa, he was deeply involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation. He came to the United States in 1966 and was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1967 to 2004, when he became Emeritus.

Since coming to Santa Barbara, Brian has specialized in communicating archaeology to general audiences through lecturing, writing, and other media. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading archaeological and historical writers and is widely respected popular lecturer about the past. His many books include three volumes for the National Geographic Society, including the bestselling Adventure of Archaeology. Other works include The Rape of the Nile, a classic history of archaeologists and tourists along the Nile, and four books on ancient climate change and human societies, Floods, Famines, and Emperors (on El Niños), The Little Ice Age, and The Long Summer, an account of warming and humanity since the Great Ice Age. His most recent climatic work describes the Medieval Warm Period: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. His latest climate change book, with Nadia Durrani, is His other books include Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society and Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World and Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age gave birth to the First Modern Humans. His recently published Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind extends his climatic research to the most vital of all resources for humanity.

Brian has been sailing since he was eight years old and learnt his cruising in the English Channel and North Sea. He has sailed thousands of miles in European waters, across the Atlantic, and in the Pacific. He is author of the Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California, which has been a widely used set of sailing directions since 1979. An ardent bicyclist, he lives in Santa Barbara with his life Lesley and daughter Ana.

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Alex Van Name
5.0 out of 5 stars Great details for cruisers!
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023
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If you ever needed to take shelter in a storm, this book has several anchorages available to protect you and your boat.
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Eric F
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible of Channel Islands Sailing (and mainland side too)
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2010
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I *thought* I knew about the Channel Islands and the different weather systems around Southern California. I've sailed here for a few years, and have gone up into the Channel Islands. Heck, I was married on Catalina.

Starting to read Fagan's book, it became quickly evident that I didn't know anything about this rich area. Fagan breaks down multi micro climates into detailed and descriptive blocks, highlighting which routes will show off what type of weather in different parts of the year. If you already know what the weather will be like in Santa Cruz Channel in October, or when Cuyler Harbor turns into a dangerous lee shore (and what conditions to watch for in advance), then I suppose you don't need this book.

If you're going to be harbor hopping along the mainland, you can probably get by without it. But if you're going to be heading off the grid into the fringes of the no-kidding Pacific, you'd be foolish to read Fagan's book first. Ask anyone who's done a lot of sailing in the Channel Islands, and you'll hear "Fagan's book" pop up in discussion within a few minutes. Charlie's Charts, although useful in other areas (primarily down in Mexico) do not cut the mustard against Fagan.

Highly recommended, and if you only have sailing book related to Southern California this should easily be it.
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Anthony P. Hays
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential cruising guide
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014
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This seems to be the standard reference book for California cruising. It contains essential information for yachtsmen sailing the California coast and offshore islands. It has many useful simplified charts and photos of approaches to harbors and anchorages. It also has a useful chapter on local weather forecasting. Although California weather is mostly pretty benign, it can also make life very difficult to any sailor who is unprepared for bad weather, and Fagan provides plenty of good advice on how to predict it, and how to deal with it.
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Shane Norwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2019
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This is a MUST for any central or Southern California sailor or powerboater. Lots of great tips -, as always, trust but verify. Some information is outdated. But not enough to keep this from being a go-to guide for Channel Islands hopping.
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Bridget Royston
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Information
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2014
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Cruised up and down the coast of SoCal and the Channel Islands using the information in this book. It has great details, suggestions and pictures. There isnt another book out there for SoCal as good as this one. I think without the book, you would miss out on some real gems.
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Bidibibu
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017
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a nice book, I would have expected more cartography, maps, and picture with higher printing resolution
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RAB
5.0 out of 5 stars Great so cal cruising guide
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2020
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Well written. Lots of pictures. Info in anchorages I didn’t know about.
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Ron & Ellen
4.0 out of 5 stars Older book but good information
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2007
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This is a good book for those interested in cruising the west coast, you can always get something out of the book if you plan to make that trip up the coast, lots of good information to research and make plans from.
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