Boating guide in second printing

Press, 5 December 1985, Page 58

Boating guide in second printing

Such has been the demand for a locally produced boating guide to Banks Peninsula since it was first issued a few weeks ago that a second print run has been ordered. The pilot for small craft, “Cruising Banks Peninsula,” is an 84-page book edited by two local yachtsmen, Keith Drayton and lan Treleaven. The first 3000 copies were distributed free to people with a special interest in or association with the Peninsula and the sea, such as yacht and boat club members, and fishermen.

Contributors to the guide include professional seamen and commercial fishermen whose livelihood depends on their familiarity with the Peninsula, as well as a number of yachtsmen who know the Peninsula’s bays and moods well. The guide is a distillation of their knowledge and lore and an important reference for anyone sailing or boating out of local bays. Chapters on the Peninsula’s weather, tides, marine “rules of the road,” communications, the coastguard, and the Sumner Lifeboat

Institution are supplemented by handy reference lists for such things as the Peninsula’s lights, addresses and contacts for boating and aquatic clubs, radio call signs likely to be encountered round the Peninsula, and other technical information. The bulk of the guide, however, is a clockwise tour of the Peninsula, bay by bay, with charts and aerial photographs to supplement the text and pinpoint the hazards and features as well as the safest anchorages in different conditions.

The text is also a . mine of information on the history of the Peninsula and has useful information for fishermen and campers as well as for the boat-users at whom it is primarily directed. The second edition of the guide, being produced in response to inquiries from the public at bookstores, chandlers, and boating clubs, will be available from two Christchurch chandlers, Mahan Marine and Oborns Nautical Supplies, who are backing the publication.