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Supplement no 3
July 08

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The fourth edition of Anne Hammick’s definitive guide to the Azores, Madeira, Canaries and Cape Verde Islands contains extensive revisions from data collected by the author and other cruising sailors. The entire text has been updated and amended, new plans have been introduced and many new photographs have been included. Since this pilot was first published nearly twenty years ago the island groups of the northeast Atlantic have been visited by increasing numbers of yachtsmen. Many use the islands as staging posts during Atlantic passages – the Canaries for yachts heading westwards to the Caribbean in the winter and the Azores for yachts on passage to Europe in the summer. The island groups are, however, also interesting cruising areas in their own right. Over the last two decades facilities have improved enormously, and visiting yachts from Europe and North America both cruise and over-winter in all the island groups. Anne Hammick’s outstanding pilot provides all the information the visiting yachtsman or woman will require for safe navigation and enjoyable, well-informed cruising. It is the only single-volume guide to the area, and is unusual among cruising guides in that the original author remains at the helm. 

A4. Hard Cover. 200p

About the Author:
Anne Hammick has been involved with the Pilotage Foundation for nearly 20 years. Atlantic Islands was her first book, researched during 1987/88 and written at the chart table on a portable typewriter. She has updated each subsequent edition and has no intention of stopping just yet. From a sailing family, she first cruised long-distance in 1975 and since then has made eight Atlantic crossings, six as skipper/navigator, including the 1981 Two-handed Transatlantic Race. An RYA Ocean Yachtmaster, most of her long passages were made without the help of electronic (satellite) navigation systems. She has written more than a dozen books on sailing subjects and is editor of Flying Fish, the biannual journal of the Ocean Cruising Club. She was awarded the Royal Cruising Club Challenge Cup in 1987 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in 2001. She lives aboard her elderly Rustler 31 in Falmouth, Cornwall.