"MexWX Mexico Weather for Boaters" by Captain Pat Rains
Author Capt. Pat Rains picks up the WX and brings it right to your boat in Pacific Mexico. MexWX is a must-have reference for recreational sportfishers, motoryachts, trailer-boat skippers and all cruising sailors who visit Mexican waters. If you boat on Pacific Mexico, you need this book to answer all of these questions!
Includes chapters on
- Why wait until November 1 to head to Mexico?
- Where in the Sea of Cortez to safely summer-over?
- How can we use diurnal winds for coastal sailing?
- When does Hurricane Season begin and end?
- Where is Hurricane Alley?
- What to expect when crossing the Sea of Cortez?
- When is the best month to sail farther south?
- When to return north up Baja without bashing?
- Frequencies for weather on VHF, SSB & WX-fax?
- What creates a "weather window" for crossing Tehuantepee? Papagallo? MexWX: Mexico Weather for Boaters covers Baja, the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific coast of Mexico. It helps you plan your boating itinerary to take advantage of weather patterns and which local WX phenomenon to watch out for (Screaming Blue Northers, Elefantes, Chubascos). It teaches you how to use your boat's radios and computers to receive those important WX forecasts in Mexican waters even by email when offshore and provides the details for:
- Summering Over in the Tropics
- Hurricane Season & Hurricane Holes
- Tactics for the Gulf of Tehuantepec & Papagallo
It is fully indexed and updated with new photos and improved graphics. This concise publication includes a handy new quick-reference Frequency Guide for VHF, Ham, SSB, WX-fax and Internet.
"The why, when, where, how and whats of Mexico weather on the Pacific side by writer and delivery skipper - with good illustrations and tips on how radio (SSB, HAM, WX-fax, VHF) can help you make the right decisions." --Cruising World Magazine, editor & book reviewer Nim Marsh
- Paperback - 106 pages
- Point Loma Publishing (3rd Edition) - January 2008
- ISBN - 0963847031
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