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9-26-00
Dear Don and Reanne,
Enclosed is a copy of Whale Tales Volume 2 with a map
thanks to you!
I hope you enjoy Volume 2 and also wanted to say that
it was a positive education working with you on the
San Juan Islands cruising book.....
Peter J. Fromm, Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands
Dear Peter,
Thanks Peter, your books have a special place in our
library.
Ed: Peter was a photographer on Baidarka for several
days three years ago and his photo's appear throught
out our cruising guideExploring the San Juan and Gulf
Islands.
His new title Whale Tales Volume Two ISBN 0-9648704-1-x
is a really great book that whale lovers will enjoy.
Human interactions with whales and personal accounts
from around the world. Very well illustrated $13.95
from Whale Tales Press 1-800-669-3950
9-23-00
Dear Whomsoever,
Recently, I purchased Exploring the San Juan and Gulf
Islands. I have also purchased the first editions of
Exploring the South Coast of British Columbia and Exploring
Vancouver Island's West Coast.
I know that an errata sheet on Exploring Vancouver Island's
West Coast was at one time available on your web site.
I can no longer find it and lost my old version when
moving. How can I get a copy of it? Are errata sheets
available for the other two? I am unable to find them
on your web page. Perhaps I simply overlooked them.
Can you please help me in this matter.
Thanks
Dave Killen
David,
Thanks for taking time to email us. We like to know
how people use our products and come to depend on them.
As you may know, the new editions of the FineEdge.com
Exploring series contain a number of updates and changes.
We now cover every known cove site; we now include the
GPS waypoints for all entrances, have refined a number
of anchor waypoints, have included new diagrams and
chart numbers, have added information on navigation
matters, weather, hiking trails, photos, etc.
For these reasons, when a new edition is printed, we
consider the old editions "Inoperative" and
suggest you put them on your high-and-dry bookshelf
to refer to for your own historical notes. Subsequently,
we publish only new errata or update information for
current editions or new titles on our website www.FineEdge.com
under Updates and Reviews.
Unfortunately, our limited resources simply do not allow
us to communicate detailed updates on old editions once
new editions have been published, and we regret that
the days of sending self-addressed stamped envelopes
are behind us. Purchasing new editions and checking
Pilothouse Posting on our website is the best way you
can be assured of having the latest valuable information.
FineEdge.com designs its books to last for several years
and takes cruising and navigational information very
seriously. By comparison, look at how many errors exist
on fuel docks and other vital information in other pubications
and chart kits! (See Cruising World, August 2000, page
72, "Beware the Bahamas Chart Kit" by Tom
Neal as an example of what happens all too frequently.)
Réanne and I spend 3 to 6 months a year on our
research vessel "Baidarka" searching out cruising
routes and new anchor sites. Many of these remote places
have been poorly documented in the past or, more likely,
not at all. We know of no other nautical publisher who
goes to this extent to derive information on undocumented
areas and with such accuracy.
Our books are very favorably compared to government
Coast Pilots which contain years of old information,
or to government charts that seldom have any depth information
for the smaller, isolated coves we all love to explore.
While some guides, such as Northwest Boat Travel, have
contributing editors and do a heroic job in phone-checking
their information including updating their website nwboat.com,
some of the annual marina and cruising guides spend
more time in selling advertisements than in doing original
research.
FineEdge.com sometimes has pre-publication offerings
on our website or at public presentations such as the
Seattle Boat Show where new editions can be purchased
at attractive prices. You may want to take advantage
of these special situations or monitor the Hot Deals
on our website where cosmetically damaged books are
sold at 40% to 80% percent discount. Please call Regina
between 9 and 11 am Monday through Thursday at (360)299-8500;
she can tell you if we have a seconds-quality copy available
of the title you're looking for.
I hope this explains our system and offers some solutions
for you.
Don Douglass
9/21/00
Dear Fine Edge,
Just returned home to Utah after spending our second
summer sailing and cruising the San Juan and Gulf Islands
with our trailerable Kent Ranger 26. The first trip
in 1999 was our first venture into saltwater, a milestone
for us. Living in the desert presents a real challenge
with trying to obtain info on far-way sailing grounds.
After a lot of communitcation with northwest boaters
and Armchair Sailor, we purchased a few cruising guides.
Without exception, Exploring the San Juan and Gulf Islands
by Don Douglass and Réanne Hemingway-Douglass
is hands down the best. So good the others are hardly
ever used!
Sincerely, C. Tuttle, Utah
Summer 2000
Dear FineEdge:
Your cruising books on the San Juans and BC are much
better than I ever expected to find. We use them each
time we approach a new area (we have spent the last
two months in the San Juans). The little charts showing
the safe approach, the place to anchor and the condition
of the bottom are all very valuable information.
I just loaded the Proven Cruising Routes disk into my
PC and think that information is going to help us a
lot as we go further north this summer. Thanks to the
authors and to you for making this info available.
Tom Long,
Novato, CA
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