Charles and Margo Wood - Charlie\'s Charts North to Alaska

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TIME

The whole area of this guide is in the time zone of Greenwich or Universal
Standard Time + 8 hours. Furthermore, the entire area uses Daylight Saving
Time, which has its effects on the navigator reading the times of tides and
current tables. The rule is "Spring ahead and Fall back" so between April and
5eptember add one hour to the Pacific 5tandard Time given in the tide tables.

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

There are a great many books that cover British Columbia and Alaska. Only
a few are mentioned to provide information of help to cruising sailors. Pilots
and Sailing Directions, Tide and Current Tables, and similar publications are
listed in Appendix I with the charts.

Cruising Beyond Desolation Sound by John Chappell, published in 1979 by ~aikoon
Marine, 4203 West 13 Avenue, Vancouver, Be V6R 2T7. This is a sailing guide
devoted to the area from Desolation Sound to the north end of Vancouver Island.
It complements and partly overlaps this book, but it is a valuable source of
additional information. Mr. Chappell passed away in 1985 and although the book
is out of print it will be re-issued. $17.95 (Can).

Cruising Guides to British Columbia: Volume I - The Gulf Islands. Volume II -

Desolation Sound, Volume III - The Sunshine Coast, by Bill Wolferstan and

published over the last few years by Pacific Yachting, 202 - 1132 Hamilton

Street, Vancouver, se V6B 252. These glossy books have good color photos of

many of the various harbors along the B.C. coast. At $49.95 (Can) each they

are expensive guide books for a working vessel.

Alaska's Southeast, Touring the Inside Passage by Sarah Eppenbach, published

in 1983 by Pacific Search Press, 222 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109.

This is a generaI guide to the South East, and thus covers the 'tourist' facts

of this area and its principal towns that might add to one's interest when

travelling here. It includes a good, short introduction to the native

heritage of the South East.

Almost alI the major towns publish some form of free tourist literature in

booklet or newsprint form that gives considerable 10cal information.

THE NATIVE CULTURES

Travel along this coast and visits to any of the towns that lie on it

develops a growing interest in the native Indian cultural1y influenced art.

Totem poles are the first and most persuasive of the symbols one sees that

trigger this interest. But almost every object in native life, even the most

utilitarian, was decorated with design --as for example berry baskets and

beautifully carved wooden halibut hooks. This guide can do no more than

introduce the tribal areas and point out other sources of information.