A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters

By Donald Launer

Book Overview

With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jersey Shore--from New York Harbor to Delaware Bay--in the good company of Captain Donald Launer. Captain Launer brings many years of experience as a skipper of small boats to this engaging nautical and historical guide to New Jersey's tidal waters. Cruise with him from the New Jersey/New York state line near the mouth of the Hudson River, past Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook, and into the Manasquan Inlet. From there, he gives you a choice of voyages: the inside route through the Intracoastal Waterway to Toms River, Barnegat Bay, Atlantic City, and Cape May, or taking the offshore passage. Then you explore the Delaware Bay and its tributaries and cruise up the Delaware River to Trenton. This revised edition contains updated information about onshore facilities, marinas, restaurants, stores, sites of interest, docking fees, bridge heights, maritime service stations, weather, navigation, and safety, as well as post-September 11 regulations in the waters around New York City. The book also includes a wealth of photographs and sea charts. Donald Launer, who holds a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license, has explored the New Jersey waters in every kind of small craft since he first sailed in Barnegat Bay at the age of eight. His articles on recreational boating have appeared in Good Old Boat Magazine, Cruising World, The Beachcomber, Offshore, and Sail. He berths his schooner, Delphinus, in Forked River, New Jersey.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813534186
• ISBN13: 9780813534183
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable appetizer to a Jersey cruise

Captain Launer is an articulate, informative, and entertaining guide. His information is current and detailed. I have enjoyed reading this book straight through from the Introduction. I look forward to extending my next Baltimore-to-Cape May cruise up the ICW to Atlantic City with Captain Launer's guide at hand.

well presented; accurate; organized;useful

Captain Donald Launer is one of the more knowlegeable sailors along the New Jersey shore. He lives there and is devoted to marine arts and sciences as they effect boaters. His book is scrupulously accurate, unusually readable, and more than interesting for sailor, motorboater or just an interested reader. Although the book is sequential in form, in that it presents a travalogue from New Jersey's dramatic Palisades to rather scruffy Trenton Falls, it is equally useful as a reference book; the organiztion is outstanding. Captain Launer has also kindly provided a fairly complete reference section. This is a "must book" for any skipper who wishes to cruise New Jersey Waters. A great gift for any Garden State boater.

Get off the beaten track - read this book!

"A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters" is a delightful sail up all the little tidal rivers, through the marshes, backbays & canals - a waterway tour around peninsula New Jersey. I went to several of the lovelier locations described in this book by car. If you want to really go off the beaten track, forget the popular tourist guides & check out books like this one.