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The Explorer Team has consistently provided the best navigational charts and cruising guide information with more research, more data, and more accuracy than any other source for cruising in the Bahamas. 

To provide for your navigational needs, Explorer Chartbooks include: 

  • Up-to-date large- and small-scale charts
  • Accurate data
  • Beautiful intuitive colors
  • Waterproof pages
  • Harbour Closeup charts
  • Topographical Features with shoreside facilities, landmarks, roads, and elevation contours
  • Extensive Soundings
  • GPS Waypoints
  • GPS Accu-GridTM for easy cockpit navigation

  • WGS 84 Datum
  • Compass Roses with latest magnetic variation
  • Concise "Need-to-Know Info" on services and facilities, including marina dockage rates 
  • Notations for adjoining chart pages
  • The right size for your nav station
  • Long-range tide tables
  • Spiral binding for easy use
  • Easy-to-use format

 

Page down to see descriptions of the various Explorer Chart products.  Please visit the Explorer online store to purchase your Explorer Charts and Chartbooks. We also have available for sale related materials by other authors, such as Chris Parker, Nigel Calder, and Claiborne Young. Discounts are available.

 

Explorer Chartbook Near Bahamas

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5th Edition, May 2009

The Near Bahamas, the islands closest to Florida, provide a tropical cruising paradise just a short distance from mainland USA.The fifth edition of this popular chartbook now includes what you, Bahamas cruisers, have been asking for -- detailed Gulf Stream Crossing routes plus small- and large-scale charts of the Abacos, the Biminis, the Berrys, Grand Bahama, New Providence, and Andros. The Explorer is always reaching to new islands for sojourns and sidetrips--new cruising ground for you to explore with the charts you've come to trust!
Near Bahamas Chartbook Details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 74 up-to-date large- and small-scale full-color charts and closeups
  • Tide Tables through 2011

Special Articles including:

  • Crossing the Gulf Stream
  • Customs and Immigration
  • Bahamas Weather
  • Anchoring
  • History and Description
  • Extensive Help Menu

 
 

Explorer Chartbook Far Bahamas

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4th edition, January 2008

The lure of The Far Bahamas was a seed planted in our hearts that gradually grew and flourished into the Explorer Chartbook series. It was because of our desire to go to the Bight of Acklins that we found existing charts wanting and came do our own surveys to make our own original charts.

Unlike the other parts of the Bahamas with miles of shallow bank, there is much deep water and little dry land in the Far Bahamas islands, spread out over hundreds of miles from Eleuthera to Inagua. In planning your Far Bahamas odyssey, do your homework first and take along your trusted Explorer chartbook!

Far Bahamas ChartBook

 

  • 79 cruiser-friendly full-color Explorer charts and insets
  • Tide tables

Special Articles including:

  • Customs and Immigration
  • Far Bahamas Odyssey
  • Medical Air Evacuation
  • Metric System
  • Cruising the Bight of Acklins
  • Phone Services
 

Sea of Abacos Chart

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1st Edition, May 2006

 Easily the most comprehensive, up-to-date chart of the Sea of Abaco available!

Abacos Chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Features including:

  • 24" x 17" two-sided nav chart
  • Waterproof/tearproof material
  • Pocketsized map fold
  • GPS-compatible Accu-gridTM
  • Waypoints and routes
  • Full color
  • Small-scale charts:
    • Green Turtle Cay to Elbow Cay
    • Elbow Cay to Little Harbour
  • Large-scale harbour closeup charts:
    • Marsh Harbour/Treasure Cay/Guana Cay Harbour
    • Green Turtle Cay
    • New Plymouth
    • Man-O-War Cay
    • Hopetown
    • White Sound, Elbow Cay
    • Little Harbour
 

Explorer Chartbook Exumas and Ragged Islands

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5th Edition, Second Printing, Updated January 2009

The true Explorer is always dreaming about new islands on the horizon. In that light our fifth edition of the Explorer Chartbook Exumas and the Ragged Islands presents the chart coverage of the central cruising ground of the Bahamas. We have also given a complete facelift to all of our original Exuma charts--digitally redrawn to pinpoint accuracy using aerial photographs. You'll notice border scales, new and corrected data, depth contours, updated variation, chart page overlaps, and notes on "Joins page..."

 Exumas

  • 64 cruiser-friendly full-color Explorer charts and insets
  • Tide Tables 

Special Articles including:

  • GPS & Piloting
  • Customs and Immigration
  • Bahamas Weather
  • Anchoring
  • History and Description
  • Snorkeling & Dinghy Safety
  • Reading the Water
  • Piloting the Exuma Cuts
  • Communications & Radio Frequencies
 

Bimini Islands and the Crossings of the Straits of Florida Chart

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1st Edition, August 2007

Simply the most comprehensive, up-to-date chart of the Gulf Stream crossings and Bimini Islands (including Cat Cay) available!

Bimini Chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Special Features including:

  • 28" x 22" two-sided nav chart
  • Waterproof/tearproof material
  • Pocketsized folded map
  • Need-to-Know Info and Area Abstract
  • GPS-compatible Accu-gridTM
  • Waypoints and routes
  • Full color
  • Small-scale chart:  Straits of Florida to The Great Bahama Bank
  • Large-scale charts and harbour closeups:
    • The Bimini Islands (including Cat and Gun Cays)
    • Bimini Harbour
    • North Bimini
    • Bimini Bay Channel
    • Cat Cay Club
  • Closeups of all marinas with details of dock
  • Area photographs
 

Bahamas Overview Chart

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1st Edition,  October 2008

The best-ever intuitively colored chart of the entire Bahamas chain, including the Turks and Caicos. Cartography you trust by The Explorer team of Monty Lewis and Kate Fears.

Bahamas Overview Chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Special Features including:

  • 19"x25"
  • Waterproof/tearproof
  • Suitable for framing (shipped unfolded in a tube)
  • Excellent for overall planning
  • Showing majenta routes of longer passages
  • Perfect for family or friends to follow your route
  • Small-scale (1:1,650,000) from Ft. Pierce, FL to Great Inagua
  • Including Turks and Caicos Islands, Cuba, the Cay Sal Bank, and the Cochinos Bank
  • Containing table of nautical symbols, abbreviatiions, and terms
 
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