Frank Virgintino, author of numerous Caribbean cruising guides, has expanded his groundbreaking guide to Caribbean cruising in this third edition, now 20 percent larger and with enhanced charts to support the book's route-planning discussions. The guide is built around the author's division of the Caribbean basin into four quadrants, and this edition adds deeper coverage of the options for leaving the North American coast and the various ways into the Caribbean, including the "back door" at the western end of Cuba.

Especially useful for anyone planning a circumnavigation of the Caribbean, or approaching from the eastern side, is Virgintino's account of "the Hole" in the southwestern Caribbean and its surprising characteristics. The book also covers the essentials of preparation: weather and the Gulf Stream, safety and security, and the local knowledge of an author who has cruised the Caribbean for over four decades.

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