The Pacific Crossing Guide/Руководство по пересечению Тихого океана

The Pacific Ocean covers one third of our planet – an area greater than that of all the Earth's land masses combined. Scattered across its expanses are some of the most magical and remarkable places and people on Earth.
The Pacific Crossing Guide is an invaluable aid for anyone seeking to explore these waters. No other book contains so much information for planning a Pacific voyage. This new edition has been restructured into two sections:
• Preparations
• Passage planning

Contents

Foreword to the third edition
The RCC Pilotage Foundation
Preface
Acknowledgements
Map of routes
Index of plans
Introduction
The magnet of the Pacific

Part 1 Preparations
1 Casting off
2 The Pacific Ocean
3 Preparing the boat
4 Staying safe
5 Navigation and charting
6 Communications
7 The balance of power
8 Routine maintenance and spares
9 Provisioning and store keeping
10 Common health problems while cruising
11 Managing the paperwork
12 Cyclone season and laying up

Part 2 Passage planning
13 Pacific weather and weather forecasts
Ports and harbours
14 Routes to the Marquesas
15 French Polynesia (the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands)
16 Southern routes via Easter Island or direct
17 Bora Bora to Tonga and Samoa via the Cook Islands
18 Routes between‘the Islands’ and New Zealand
19 Routes to and from Tasmania and the east coast of Australia
20 Routes to and from Hawaii in the East Pacific
21 Routes south and west from Hawaii
22 Routes north from New Zealand to Japan and Alaska
Appendices
Appendix A:
When all else has failed
Appendix B: Suggested further reading
Appendix C: Great Circle distance table
Appendix D: Glossary of British and American terms
Appendix E: Metric conversions
Index