Product Description

Channel Havens is a cruising guide with a difference. Recognising that many of us would like to sail away from the crowd, Ken Endean introduces the reader to beautiful, unfrequented places within the Western English Channel, from the Solent to the West Country, Channel Islands and Northern France. Here are sandy bays, coves, reef anchorages and the upper reaches of river estuaries - places neglected by most pilot books - where one can experience the sense of discovery and adventure that is more usually associated with faraway cruising. Anyone who is attracted by the dramatic scenery of unspoilt coastal waters will treasure this guide from an experienced sailors who has gone before.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #257010 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Ken Endean, a sailing instructor at the age of 20, spent the next 34 years in the construction industry but also managed to cruise extensively in home waters between Scotland and Biscay. He writes regularly for the yachting press.

Customer Reviews

Discover New Places to Anchor
Channel Havens expands your options cruising in your own back yard. Often we tend to think we have visited everywhere in our cruising area - but most mean the ports and marinas - but this book will give you lots more options if you investigate the secret inlets and secluded anchorages. Easy to read with good colour photos and little chartlets. Lots of info about the friendly rocks and the not so friendly ones.

Lacking a little detail
"Yachting Monthly's" Channel Havens: The Secret Inlets and Secluded Anchorages of the Channel (Yachting Monthly's S.)

I bought this book to plan a trip to northern France this summer. I have to say I was a little disappointed. The book is relatively small for the area covered, covering some 350 miles of cost (straight line) in just 165 pages.

Perhaps it is my miss understanding but I would have thought a book that purports to offer "Secret inlets and secluded anchorages" would have some detail about the Iles Chausey (a small island south of Jersey). In Channel Havens, Ilse Chausey are used as a chapter heading but no further info is given. Instead we are given over a page on Priory Bay near Ryde on the Isle of Wight - a bland tree lined sandy beach that almost dries a low water but is according to the book, "Arguably the best in the Solent area". I've been there, it isn't.

This book may be of interest to the odd types you meet in any marina, the ones with the 28 foot boat, laden with all the trappings of a blue water cruiser crossed with a live-a-board. The ones who will sail the 28 foot boat across the channel but don't want to pay mooring fees when they get there. (you know the ones!).

My book will be back for resale.