This completely updated guide provides detailed piloting information for navigating from Mexico's Isla Mujeres and Cozumel to Belize and Guatemala's Rio Dulce, including the many offshore cays and reefs. GPS waypoints locate all harbor entrances and anchorages, complete with 117 original sketch charts, 185 photos featuring 16-pages of color photographs, many aerials and two large folded charts showing the entire area. This top selling cruising guide deserves space on the bookshelf of anyone who contemplates a visit to this magnificent area. April 2007
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Freya Rauscher graduated in Anthropology from the University of Arizona and completed research in Medical Anthropology and Mesoamerican Archeology. She holds a Master 100-ton Coast Guard Captain's license and has logged over 60,000 nautical miles cruising the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic. Freya was the spinnaker designer for Hood Sails and later worked for North Sails in Florida. She is currently teaching high school math and science. Freya, and her husband Tom, built a custom 33-foot sloop, and now cruise aboard their 42-foot Kadey Krogen trawler.
"We first sailed this coast in 1984 as participants in the St. Petersburg to Isla Mujeres Race. The inspiration for this guidebook came shortly after discovering that the entire coast desperately lacked good harbor charts to show cruising yachtsmen where to go and how to get there safely. We have logged over 8,000 nautical miles exploring this coast, personally investigating every pass, channel and anchorage suggested in this book."
"We first sailed this coast in 1984 as participants in the St. Petersburg to Isla Mujeres Race. The inspiration for this guidebook came shortly after discovering that the entire coast desperately lacked good harbor charts to show cruising yachtsmen where to go and how to get there safely. We have logged over 8,000 nautical miles exploring this coast, personally investigating every pass, channel and anchorage suggested in this book."
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Great resource for cruising Belize!,
By Capt N Mike "MiKat" (Valdez, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cruising Guide to Belize and Mexico's Caribbean Coast, Including Guatemala's Rio Dulce (Paperback)
We had a wonderful time cruising Belize for 3 months (2009) with this great guide never far from our side (along with paper charts, chartploters, gps and binos). I have no idea what the gentleman from Colorado was talking about with all the problems as we never saw or heard rumor of such nonsense. We found the Belize government the easiest, least bureaucratic and least costly country we've visited. The sailing was fantastic provided you sail a catamaran or shole draft vessel. MiKat draws 3.6 feet and we spent a lot of time in water 4-6 feet deep inside the reef and you will have to be aware of underwater hazards but its hardly a "coral head infested minefield of groundings, sinkings, and multi-million dollar fines". This is sparsely populated country with few facilities or coast guard. This is why Captain Freya's guide is so valuable here. If you love the BVIs then you may not like it in Belize, its totality different culture. You won't find many navaids, so do your homework, buy this cruising guide and explore the Monkey River but don't expect to find a Hilton resort!
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must have for Belize,
By wyo "sailing the dream" (Wyoming) - See all my reviews
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Can't imagine sailing in Belize without this resource! It's really the only one out there. That said, one must rely on their own navigation skills along with the advice in this book--things change every year... Great book!
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Freya's blue book has been my Bible while sailing in Rio Dulce and Belize for the past 8 years, you can imagine what one or two sailing trips a year can do to a book up on deck, some times in the middle of a tropical storm. Yes there are updated charts and new GPS every year but neither does justice to Freya's detailed drawings and written information. While ordering a replacement guide I was very SURPRISED AND EXCITED to know there is a new edition! My copy is on the mail as we speak!
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