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    A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast
    A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast
    A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast
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    A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast

    By James L. Bildner

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    WHEN YOU NAVIGATE THE COAST OF MAINE, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

    A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast takes the guesswork out of navigating Maine’s intricate, reef-strewn waters, ensuring that your next voyage through this coastal paradise will be picture-perfect.

    Inside you will find more than 180 full-color aerial photographs that provide "by-the-picture” navigational guidance for Maine’s treasured harbors, difficult passages, and hidden approaches. Author James Bildner has added chart segments and recommended course lines to these low-altitude photos, giving you a unique, at-a-glance guide to sailing around Maine. It’s like cruising with a masthead lookout to point the way.

    • Text descriptions of area with piloting instructions

    • Labeled approach lines

    • Low-angled photos with key navigation aides labeled

    • Chart segments from high resolution NOAA charts

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateJun 2, 2010
    ISBN9780071491921
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      A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast - James L. Bildner

      A VISUAL CRUISING GUIDE TO THE

      MAINE COAST

      A VISUAL CRUISING GUIDE TO THE

      MAINE COAST

      JAMES L. BILDNER

      Copyright © 2006 by James L. Bildner. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      ISBN: 978-0-07-149192-1

      MHID: 0-07-149192-9

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      NOTICE: The information, charts, and illustrations contained in this book are not for navigational purposes. None of the material in this book is intended to replace any government-issued navigational charts or other government publications (including Notices to Mariners) for up-to-date information regarding changes, additions, and deletions to existing navigational materials. All material in this book is subject to change at any time. The author and publisher do not guarantee nor warrant that the information in this book is complete, correct, or current. The author and publisher shall not be liable to any user of the book for any loss or injury allegedly caused, in whole or in part, by relying on information contained in this book.

      TERMS OF USE

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      Camden Harbor with Curtis Island in the foreground (page 134)

      To Nancy and Lizzie, who, like the sun rising against the bluest of skies, always keep my eyes and my heart focused on the next horizon. I love you both.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      A Few Notes on Using This Guide

      REGION I

      SOUTHERN MAINE: Isles of Shoals to Richmond Island Harbor

      Isles of Shoals

      Piscataqua River (Approach to Portsmouth and Kittery)

      Little Harbor

      Portsmouth Harbor

      Pepperrell Cove

      Portsmouth and Kittery

      Back Channel

      York Harbor

      Perkins Cove

      Wells Harbor

      Kennebunkport

      Cape Porpoise Harbor

      Wood Island Harbor and The Pool

      Saco River

      Seal Cove and Richmond Island Harbor

      REGION II

      CASCO BAY: Portland to The Basin

      Portland Harbor and Approach

      Diamond Island Roads Passage

      Long Island and Great Chebeague

      Jewell Island

      Royal River

      Harraseeket River

      Harpswell Sound Approach

      Bailey Island and Orrs Island

      Long Cove

      Eastern Casco Bay

      Small Point Harbor and Cape Small Harbor

      Sebasco Harbor

      The Basin

      REGION III

      MIDCOAST: Seguin Island to Port Clyde

      Seguin Island

      Kennebec River

      Bath

      Inside Passage (Bath to Boothbay Harbor)

      Upper Hell Gate

      Lower Hell Gate

      Robinhood Cove and Riggs Cove

      Boothbay Harbor

      Damariscove Island

      Christmas Cove

      Seal Cove

      Pemaquid Harbor/Johns Bay

      Eastern Branch

      Monhegan Island

      Hornbarn Cove

      Pleasant Point Gut

      Maple Juice Cove

      Port Clyde

      REGION IV

      WEST PENOBSCOT BAY: Tenants Harbor to Searsport

      Tenants Harbor and Long Cove

      Muscle Ridge Channel

      Dix Island Harbor

      Owls Head Harbor

      Rockland Harbor

      Rockport Harbor

      Camden Harbor

      Gilkey Harbor

      Belfast

      Searsport

      REGION V

      EAST PENOBSCOT BAY: Matinicus Island to Castine Harbor

      Matinicus Island

      Ragged Island

      Hurricane Island

      The Basin

      Long Cove at Vinalhaven

      Pulpit Harbor

      Fox Islands Thorofare

      North Haven

      Perry Creek

      Winter Harbor and Seal Bay

      Marsh Cove

      Burnt Cove

      Northwest Harbor

      Eggemoggin Reach

      Horseshoe Cove

      Bucks Harbor

      Castine Harbor

      REGION VI

      BLUE HILL AND JERICHO BAYS: Duck Harbor to Frenchboro

      Duck Harbor

      Isle au Haut Thorofare

      Merchant Row Passage

      Merchant Island Harbor

      McGlathery Island

      Deer Island Thorofare

      Stonington

      Southeast and Inner Harbors

      Blue Hill Harbor

      York Narrows and Casco Passage

      Mackerel Cove

      Frenchboro, Long Island

      REGION VII

      MOUNT DESERT ISLAND AND FRENCHMAN BAY: Southwest Harbor to Winter Harbor

      Mount Desert Approach

      Southwest Harbor

      Somes Harbor

      Northeast Harbor

      Seal Harbor

      Bar Harbor

      Sorrento Harbor

      Winter Harbor

      REGION VIII

      DOWN EAST: Mud Hole to Bucks Harbor

      Mud Hole and Approach

      Mistake Island

      The Cows Yard

      Jonesport

      Roque Island Thorofare/Archipelago

      Bunker Cove

      Moose Snare Cove

      Bucks Harbor

      Index

      INTRODUCTION

      This book has been a labor of love.

      But, truth be told, it was a project of necessity. Just ask my wife, Nancy. For over twenty-five years, we have been sailing these waters in every imaginable condition (despite her completely rational pleas to the contrary). On one of those trips, as Nancy looked at me with the I told you so look, it occurred to me that maybe there is a better way of doing this. There I was, spread out by the wheel, with the boat lurching side to side and up and down, staring through pea-soup fog, with charts on one side, books on the other, and the VHF and fog horn breaking the sound of howling wind. And every few minutes, I was making a 15-yard dash up and down the companionway to check the radar.

      Though technological advances have brought us electronic aids such as GPS receivers, digital charts, integrated

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