Seaworthy.com

New Featured Books

Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands, Second Edition

This is the new 2nd edition of the Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands by Stephen J. Pavlidis.  Printed in 2011, the new 2nd edition is vastly improved with extensive full-color aerial photography and completely updated harbor charts.  Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands covers the entire Virgin Islands region including US, British and Spanish Virgin Islands.  This is a comprehensive cruising guide including 84 GPS-accurate sketch charts, piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, photos, approaches and routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history and loads of local knowledge. Excellent.

Click here to view this item in our online nautical bookstore.

Street's Guide to the Cape Verde Islands

Street’s Guide to the Cape Verde Islands is the first and only cruising guide for the Cape Verde Islands.  Printed in 2011, it is a completely up-to-date, full-color guide that includes charts and sketches not available through any other source, as well as GPS waypoints, harbor and marina information, local knowledge and much more. 

Click here to view this item in our online nautical bookstore.

Don Street has a message for all sailors planning to cross the Atlantic via the trade-wind route: “Forget about spending Christmas in the Caribbean, which forces you to cross the Atlantic in late November and early December when the trades are erratic and sometimes light to nonexistent. Instead, spend Christmas cruising and exploring the Cape Verde Islands and set off in late December or early January, after the trades have settled in, and be almost guaranteed a fast passage. They’re not called the Christmas Winds for nothing! ”

To back up this advice, Don has written Street’s Guide to the Cape Verde Islands. In it, he provides a historical and cultural commentary to add color to his down-to-earth descriptions of more than 50 potential anchorages (potential, because while a few are well known, a great many of them are rarely visited by any other than local boats). Any sailor with a sense of adventure who reads this guide will find plenty of reasons to go exploring in the Cape Verdes — enough, perhaps, to occupy the entire month of December.

Don’s first hardback cruising guide, A Cruising Guide to the Lesser Antilles, opened up the entire eastern Caribbean to cruising sailors, and made chartering a bareboat there a realizable dream for thousands. Street’s Guide to the Cape Verde Islands could have a similar impact on sailors’ ideas about the Cape Verdes.

As well as writing his cruising guides, since 1979 Don has been plowing his research of all the Atlantic and eastern Caribbean islands into the Imray-Iolaire charts published by Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson. Since a series of articles mentioning the Cape Verde Islands and Don Street’s guide appeared recently in Yachting World, Imray reports a spike in sales of the Imray-Iolaire chart of the Cape Verdes. Don estimates that sales of this chart will triple this year over the average sales. The numbers indicate a marked growth in interest in the Cape Verdes, which could very well translate into strong sales of Street’s Guide to the Cape Verde Islands.

Life at Sea Level

Tales of island adventures from one of America's finest travel guide authors, Stephen J. Pavlidis. 

Click here to view this item in our online nautical bookstore.

Life at Sea Level is the latest work of one of America’s finest travel guide authors.  For nearly 20 years, Stephen J Pavlidis has been writing books about The Bahamas and the Caribbean islands.  He has written 14 guides covering virtually all the geography from south Florida to Trinidad and Tobago, including many lesser known destinations such as Guatemala and Honduras.  That writing was done aboard his 40-foot sailboat, IV Play, making careful notes, tedious maps and talking to the locals he met ashore.

Most of Steve’s books report facts about the regions and islands he visited.  Finally, in Life at Sea Level he tells some of the other stories of the very real things that happened during his island time and of the very real people he knew or historically researched.  He tells us some things that are at once serendipitous and humorous.  He also tells us some things that are not always comfortable…even things some people would rather were not retold.

The islands of the Bahamas and Caribbean have a long history. From times during the Civil War, to the present moment the islands deliver whenever and whatever the United States seems to want or need. Money moves in and out of them like a flowing tide. Crimes are perpetrated and vast fortunes change hands all in the name of the opportunity of the moment. You can also just visit for the fishing or to drink a cold bottle of Kalik or Red Stripe in a hammock on the beach. Steve gives us the real perspective of life on these islands; sometimes peaceful and relaxing; sometimes wild and dangerous. But that is the reality of Life at Sea Level.

Here's what cruising author Bruce Van Sant has to say about Life at Sea Level:

I have for many years admired Stephen Pavlidis' ability to spin an honest tale. In "Life at Sea Level" he ties up the loose ends and untold stories that underpin his many successful cruising guides.  As in his guidebooks Stephen's intimate and open style grabs the reader in "Life at Sea Livel". Whether he's running after poachers with the park wardens of the Bahamas National Trust, or yarning on islands, islanders and cruisers, authenticity accents his accounts.  Piracy back then or right now, drug and gun running, ghosts and hauntings, voodoo and hoodoos — all get chronicled with as good a flare and timbre as Stephen gives to his guitar when he plays the blues. Take this book with you this summer, then head out for the Bahamas and the Caribbean this fall.