Street's Pilot/Guide to the Cape Verde Islands

street’s guide to the cape verde islands, will convince you to visit these often overlooked cruising

grounds. Through maps, photos, and the sorts of stories only Don can tell, the Cape Verdes come alive.

Mark Pillsbury; Editor, Cruising World (USA)

much more than a mere pilot book, this new guide from the venerable don street will enhance

any visit to the Cape Verdes, tempting you to linger and explore.

Sarah Norbury; Editor, Practical Boat Owner (UK)

as good as having don on board tapping you on the shoulder. . .

Tom Cunliffe (UK)

don street has done it again. …sensational, comprehensive, and incredibly detailed…lavishly

illustrated with excellent charts and photographs, for its depth, insight, and pioneering spirit,

Street’s Guide to the Cape Verde Islands might just be his best cruising guide ever.

Herb McCormick (USA)

with this new guide to the cape verdes, don street has reasserted himself as the pre-eminent authority

on North Atlantic cruising grounds. No one visiting the Cape Verdes should be without it.

Charles J. Doane; Executive Editor, SAIL (USA)

seamanship and the cruising ethos are ingrained in street’s work. anyone planning to sail in this

fascinating Atlantic archipelago should make this pilot a constant companion.

David Glenn; Editor, Yachting World (UK)

the old sea dog gives us his usual experienced and offbeat take on passagemaking.

To run off the beaten path it’s always wise to listen to Street.

Patience Wales (USA

street’s guide to the cape verde islands...full of useful charts, bearings, advice, and

guidance...opens up an unspoiled Atlantic archipelago that has for too long been overlooked

by sailors making the trade-wind passage from Europe to the Caribbean.George Day; Publisher, Blue Water Sailing (USA)

don street, now 80, is a salty legend of the sea. his street’s guide to the cape verde islands is chatty,

informative, and highly entertaining. As indispensable as Don’s well-traveled sunhat! Paul Gelder; Editor, Yachting Monthly (UK)

Don Street's Enterprises
Don Street is at 81 the oldest and longest-serving yachting writer in the world who is still sailing, racing a
74-year-old wooden Dragon, writing cruising guides and articles and drinking Heineken beer.
Don's first article, Going South, apeared in the September 1964 Yachting. His first hard-cover guide, A Cruising
Guide to The Lesser Antilles, has been in print since1966 and although the piloting information is still largely
valid, today the stories in it invoke nostalgia for an era long gone.
Over the years, Don rewrote and expanded this guide into four volumes covering all the islands of the eastern
Caribbean from the western end of Puerto Rico to Trinidad and westward along the Venezuelan coast and
offshore islands to Aruba.
Imray-Iolaire Charts
After cruising, racing, chartering, charting, and writing guides to the eastern Caribbean for over two decades,
Street had become very frustrated with NOAA and the BA as neither would correct their charts when he
informed them of errors. In 1979, he made a deal with Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, a British company with a
history of preparing charts and pilot books that dates to 1680, to compile charts of the eastern Caribbean. It took
10 full years to pull it all together, but Imray-Iolaire charts now cover all the eastern Caribbean west to Aruba,
all the Atlantic islands. Tying them all together is Imray-Iolaire Chart 100, a gnomic projection where a straight
line is a great circle course. On its reverse, weather charts show average wind strength and direction and the
frequency of gales and extreme wave heights for every month of the year.
Experienced sailors consider Imray-Iolaire charts to be the most accurate and up-todate charts in the world.
Information for updates is obtained from BA, NOAA, and from the contacts Street has developed in his 55 years
in the Caribbean. Corrections are available at www.imray.com.
All Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) classed yachts are required by law to carry BA charts for the
area they are cruising. Old-timers keep those charts in the bottom of the chart drawer and, for their day-to-day
cruising in the Caribbean and Atlantic islands, keep the Imray-Iolaire charts on top of the chart table.
Replicas of the Imray-Iolaire charts from St. Thomas to Trinidad are available in electronic form on a memory
stick. While they don't replace the paper charts, they do provide a convenient format for making and reviewing
cruising plans.
Imray-Iolaire charts and memory sticks are available from all major chart agents in Europe, in limited quantities
in Madeira and the Canary Islands, and throughout the Caribbean.
Imray-Iolaire charts are used in digital format by Garmin, Jepperson (C Map), Maptech, and Navionics.
Marine Insurance
Street has been in the marine insurance business for 49 years, 45 of them placing insurance at Lloyds of
London through London brokers, and maintains his claim-settlement record cannot be matched.
When comparing quotes, Street...

introduction

Supplement to Street's Pilot/Guide to the Cape

Verde Islands

Background and Acknowledgments

Author's Acknowledgments

Don Street Through the Eyes of Long-Time

Associates

Chapter 1

The Case for Cruising the Cape Verde Islands

A Cruising Ground with Choices

Waiting for the Trade Winds

Chapter 2

Cape Verde in a Capsule

Political History

Cape Verde Today

Foreign Aid Fiascos

Cape Verdeans Abroad

Fishing & Fishing Boats in the Cape Verdes

Chapter 3

Infrastructure in the Cape Verde Islands

Marine Infrastructure

Chartering

Resources

Formalities

Port Captain, Customs, and Immigration 

Visas

Resources

Ground Transportation

Inter-Island Air Service

Resources

Inter-Island Ferries

Resources

Provisioning and Stores

Food Supplies

Water

Fuel

Ice

Cooking gas

Communications

Language

Medical Emergencies

Money

General Security

Search and Rescue

Chapter 4

The Mariner's Essentials

Landfalls in the Cape Verde Archipelago

Sailing Directions

Cape Verde Charts and Sketch Charts

Wind, Weather, and Tides 

Wind

Tides and Currents

Predicting Tides

Northwest Groundswell

Hurricanes

Resources

Navigation Matters

Harbors

Navigational Warnings

GPS, Chartplotters, and Eyeball Navigation

Beware of Waypoints

Anchors and Anchoring

Anchors

Anchoring

Tripping Line

Becued Anchor

Bahamian Moor

When the Windlass Dies

Safe Practices for the Ship's Boat

Landing and Launching in Surf

Under Outboard

Under Oars

Hauling the Boat up the Beach

Safety While Exploring in the Ship's Boat

List of Charts

Chart Legend

Chapter 5

Sal and Boavista

Ilho do Sal

Baia da Palmeira

Baia da Mordeira

Santa Maria

Baia de Pedra de Lume

Ilha de Boavista

Porto de Sal-Rei

South Coast of Boavista

Departing Boavista

Chapter 6

Sao Nicolau and Santa Luzia

Ilha de Sao Nicolau

Anchorages on the South Coast of Sao

Nicolau

Carrical

Baia Gombeza

Baia da Chacina

Ponta do Ilheu

Aquada da Garca

Ponta Posson

x

Ponta Salameia/Ponta Inglez

Praia de Moia Moia

Ponta Bomba

Porto Lobo

Ponta Leste and Porto de Sao Francisco

Portete Baixo

Ilha do Maio

Vila do Maio/Porto Inglez

Calheta

Chapter 9

Fogo and Brava

Ilha do Fogo

Resources

Sao Filipe

Vale de Cavaleiros

Ilha Brava

Porto da Furna

Faja da Agua

Porto dos Ferreiros

Ilheus Secos ou do Rombo

Chapter 10

Setting up for a Trade Wind Passage

The Proper Dow...