George Benson's Book -- Cruising the Northwest Coast

[NATBF]

"George B"'s forum posts various places have been extremely helpful to me, and I was aware he had also written a book, "Cruising the Northwest Coast".

Unfortunately George passed away and the book has been out of print. That has changed: Jennifer Benson has kindly made the effort to get it onto Kindle (for a "limited time" -- unsure why, but assume it is because she is new to Kindle and does not want to commit to this version if it seems not to be working out for some reason.) The link is:

Kindle, "Cruising the Northwest Coast", $16: https://a.co/d/5Xhrg99

For those of us without Kindles, I can read it in a web browser using their "cloud reader", and Amazon also apparently has a Kindle app for iPads/iPhones, though I have yet to use that.

Here is a blurb about the book:

http://georgebenson.us/sailing/
more importantly,it has a link to express interest in a paperback version, etc., which gets you on the mailing list if/when it comes out (which is how I found out about the Kindle edition):
To express interest and be placed on a waiting list – please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DCnKnXdLvKprNWWj9

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in this, and do not know any of the Benson's in any way. Just figured some here might want to know about the book availability.

 

[Wylieguy]

Google "Cruising the Nothwest Coast" for sale. Multiple copies for sale.

 

[Philpott]

This is a great little book. 144 pages with lots of photos. Here is the table of contents.









My favorite bit?

".... there were so many places to stop along this coast that the short handed cruiser need not make any leg between stops longer than about 70 miles, in fact the majority of the legs are only 20 to 40 miles. During my 48 day cruise to the Pacific Northwest I made 21 stops for one or more nights."

Now that seems manageable. And he sailed his 1968 Coronado 25. Gotta love that 'bring what ya got' attitude.

 

[Philpott]

10-18-2017, 02:59 PM#1
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Default Cruising the Northwest Coast: From the Golden Gate to Port Angeles
Here is a book that may be of interest to those of you considering the sail north. I located it in a footnote to some other footnote, and googled the author of this book: George Benson. He wrote a book about sailing close along the coast, with lots of photos. I found an email somewhere, don't remember how, and wrote to him. Mr Benson is no longer sailing with us, but his very nice wife wrote me back. Send Mrs Benson $26 / shipping and handling, and she will drive the book to the post office herself.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:49 PM, JoAnne Benson <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm his wife. We spent many summers up in the inland passage and north B.C.. Got to Alaska one year. We were always in sight of shore, and had some great sails while heading north.

We had a Coronado 25 that George upgraded to what our fellow sailors called a Benson 27. When he got ready to take the boat north, he could find very little info on that trek, ergo, he decided to write the guide upon his return. Evidently there is still very little written about "turning right out the Golden Gate", cause I have gotten at least one order per month since George passed about in Dec 2015.

I know you'll enjoy the read.
Happy sailing.
I'll watch for your order Jackie.
/jo

[Gosh, I guess this was awhile ago. 021124]

 

[hijan1]

I bought the kindle version- worked fine and it is definitely a good read. GB recommends motor-sailing when going north, by the way. The used paper copies that I saw online were "Cruising the Northwest" by Don Holm- an older, different book. I assume that ruthless speculators tried to make a fast buck and bought up all the available stock. Looks like an inside job. Cheers Jan