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Library > New Acquisitions > Book Review
Reed’s Nautical Almanac, Caribbean (2006), Carl Herzog (ed); Thomas Reed Publications Inc., 2004; $US 31; CA 16646.
As a young teenager, recently introduced to offshore yachting, I became addicted to Reeds and was very sorry when it later succumbed to MacMillans but am now pleased to see the name back. However, it was a surprise to learn that Thomas Reed Publications Inc had continued publishing Reed’s Nautical Almanacs for the USA (East & West coasts) and the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Nautical Almanac has been around for 13 years, published annually, with bi-monthly updates from the internet. And I did not know! However, I have been delighted to review it and find it every bit as good as I had hoped it would be.
It has encyclopaedic information about the entire area including Bermuda, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Central America and Mexico. A veritable mine of information, to which has been added, this year, listings of marinas and boatyards. Moreover, it is probably the only yachting publication that includes tide tables for the area.
Les Weatheritt, in his recently published Caribbean Passage Making, advises that tides matter if you wish to make comfortable passages in the region, so worth it for the tidal information alone!
This year they have removed celestial tables for astronomical navigation (available separately) but retained Sunrise/set times, phases of the Moon and a star chart; so, it has become more of a pilot than an almanac but remains very useful for all that. - IGPage prepared 31 January 2006