Owners and yacht masters planning a trip to Australia or New Zealand, pay close attention: The second edition of the guide considered the “revolutionary maritime road map” for cruising this region is coming soon. Better yet, it’s been expanded to feature information on southeastern Africa, the northern Pacific, and the Americas.
The Great Southern Route Superyacht Cruising Guide, produced by Ocean Media, is exactly the type of handbook you’ll want to have in the wheelhouse. Instead of relying on tourism department material, the editors went straight to the best sources: dozens of captains who’ve cruised these ports.
First issued in 2007, GSR, as it’s nicknamed, established a precedent for a captain-to-captain sailing directory, versus a traditional phone-book approach. Before going to print, the editors additionally investigated the companies that were recommended, to ensure they truly served the megayacht market as a whole and therefore were well versed in captains’ and owners’ needs. After its release at that year’s Monaco Yacht Show, GSR, which included information valid through this year, was mailed to more than 1,000 superyacht captains, handed out to more than 3,000 individuals at boat shows from the Caribbean to the Med and beyond, and personally delivered to thousands more yachts from Florida to Fiji.
The second edition of GSR, totaling 300 pages, will be released at this fall’s edition of the Monaco Yacht Show, to cover the cruising seasons through 2011. It will include an updated “Fact Files,” a listing of superyacht contacts in more than 80 ports and countries in eight different regions: the Middle East, Indian Ocean (including South Africa), Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the North Pacific (Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and more), and the Americas. Once again, it will include first-hand cruising advice from more than 30 megayacht captains in the “Captain’s Log” section, covering those same regions. Double-page charts show further important details, and historical weather-pattern information gives a sense of what conditions may be encountered at various times of the year.
If you won’t be at the boat show, GSR will be available in digital form (where the first edition resides now) or via orders directly from Ocean Media.
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