South East Asia Cruising Guides and Pilots

TITLE	AUTHOR/PUBLISHER	PAGES	COMMENTS
Sail Thailand	ArtAsia Press	138	Favourite anchorages. Good maps in colour.
Cruising Malacca Straits Guide	Latitude One Publishing P/L	128	Background info, including weather, history etc as well as anchorage maps – a little unclear
The Phuket and Malacca Straits Cruising Yacht Guide	John Batt	38	Straighforward advice from ex cruiser plus hand drawn mud maps of anchorages.
Cruising Notes on Indonesia and Singapore. 1998	Susan Mitchell, Yacht Elanoa	127	Anchorages (with GPS waypoints and usually depths) used by boats in previous Darwin/Indonesia rallies etc.Plus comments and suggestions
Cruising Notes on Malaysia and Thailand. 1998	Susan Mitchell, Yacht Elanoa	68	Anchorages (with GPS waypoints and usually depths) used by boats in previous Darwin/Indonesia rallies etc.Plus comments and suggestions
Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia Volume 1 – South China Sea, Philippines, Gulf of Thailand to Singapore	Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan 1998	216	Good for passage planning. Less info on anchorages
Anchorage Guides and Charts for SE Asia and the Pacific (PP 145 – 428)	Charlie’s Charts Fifth Edition	428	More anchorages along Charlie’s route through SE Asia. Maps from CMAP(?) a little unclear and hard to follow. GPS points and depths for anchorages
Port Moresby to Louisiades – Cruising Guide and Mud Maps	Elisabeth Kerr 1999	47	Well organized home made guide. Narrative about their trip plus 35 anchorages with well drawn mud maps.
Cruising Guide to South East Asia Volume !! – PNG, Indonesia, Singapore & the Malacca Strait to Phuket	Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan 1999 with 2000 updates	246	Good for passage planning. Less info on anchorages
Pub. 163 Sailing Directions (En route) Borneo, Jawa, Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara	National Imagery and Mapping Agency, USA, 2002	364	Written for large ships. One previous cruiser reports it is invaluable for where there is no other info – they use it every day.
Indonesian Anchorages	Sue Goodrick March 2005	18	Summary of anchorages from all other publications. MS Word document in table form. Can be sorted by GPS coordinates or location and brought up on screen with Navigation software.
The Philippines	Peter Grout 1999	36	1 Chapter (pp36 – 72) in larger cruising guide of unknown title. Details of anchorages in central Philippines with mud maps.

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