Product Description

First published twenty years ago this new Imray edition of Peter Cumberlidge's guide from St David's Head in Pembrokeshire to Land's End including Lundy and the Bristol Channel is a complete reworking of the original.

This full colour edition is fully illustrated with plans and photographs. Peter Cumberlidge has rewritten the text and commentary so that it is completely up-to-date. Much of the photography has been especially organised for this edition.

Bristol Channel and River Severn Cruising Guide is not just the perfect cockpit companion but also like the author's magazine writing and other pilots provides evocative and informative reading about the places covered by the book

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66858 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Customer Reviews

Good, but flawed
Compared with Peter Cumberlidge's previous guide to the area this book is a huge improvement in a larger format and lots of colour pictures and chartlets. The harbour and passage descriptions are written in an easily read rather chatty style that gets a bit gushing at times when describing the hospitality of clubs or the excellence of facilities. Most destinations are described in 6 sections: Summary (which is usually verbatim snatches from the other sections), Description (generally tactfully written, though the mask almost slips with the entry for Barry), Entry, Entry at Night, and Berths and Anchorages. For some reason the heading for this last section is not in bold type throughout the book and the detail here is sometimes a bit thin, with occasional references to landmarks that are not shown on the chartlets (e.g."quays adjacent to the Lloyds Bank building". Coverage is pretty comprehensive and almost any conceivable anchorage is identified. The main flaw is the lack of consistency in the use of distance measurements both in the text and the chartlets. A typical text entry reads "Leave Lyde rock beacon about 100 metres to the southwest ... at Sedbury keeping 1 - 2 cables off the bank". Perhaps a landlubbing editor thought he was being helpful converting yards (200 to the cable, 2000 to the nautical mile, as every sailor should know) to metres? The chartlets mix the use of Lat & Long edge markings, scales in cables and scales in (oh! no!)metres. All in all a valuable book to have on board if you are cruising in this area, if a bit on the pricey side for a paperback. There are no on-line updates available yet (2009), as there are for some Imray publications.