Indian Ocean Cruising Guide

book summary

This book covers the entire area from the Red Sea to Singapore. Touching on the Arabian Gulf, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia, harbours in the Seychelles and East Africa are also covered. This handbook is full of practical information for the yachtsman planning and making the passage across the Indian Ocean. It also provides sailing directions and pilotage for selected key harbours and anchorages. A good general cruising guide covering the routes from Europe to Australia and points in between, Indian Ocean Cruising Guide covers all the usual points of interest for cruising yachtsmen, from history to climate, weather patterns, formalities, route planning and so on. The general sections are followed by a country-by-country round up in which key ports are described in detail with the aid of harbour plans and photographs. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and contains a lot of additional information on Malaysia and Thailand, the Seychelles and Chagos archipelago. The introduction has been expanded and throughout there are new plans and photographs. Indian Ocean Cruising Guide is now in full colour. This guide is an ideal companion to Rod Heikell and Andy O'Grady's Ocean Passages and Landfalls which discusses routes across the Indian Ocean. -- INDICE -- INTRODUCTION: The Indian Ocean and the limits and purpose of this book. Cruising in the Tropics. Stores along the way. Piracy. War zones and civil unrest. Diving. Fishing. Cultures and poverty. Health matters. TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Cruising highways. Prevailing winds. ITCZ. Tropical storms and cyclones. Weather information. Currents. Passages westabout. Passages eastabout. NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN: Singapore. Indonesia. Malasya. Thailand. Burma. Andaman Islands. NIcobar Islands. Sri Lanka. India. Maldives. Pakistan. Oman. Yemen. Somalia. Red Sea. SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN: Australia. Ashmore Reef. Christmas Island. Cocos Keeling. Chagos archipelago. Seychelles. Rodrigues. Mauritius. Réunion. Comoros. Mayotte. Madagascar. South Africa. Mozambique, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Appendix. Index.