Under Wide and Starry Skies

Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny have sailed 70,000 miles offshore in two successive 27ft sailboats Tarka the Otter and Bosun Bird. Their adventures include a circumnavigation of the world and a year in Patagonia. Nicholas is the author of Winter in Fireland and is a frequent contributor to Sailing Today magazine. Nicholas was the first Canadian Ambassador to South Sudan; both he and Jenny hold Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross for evacuating Canadian citizens from Juba, South Sudan in 2013.

Introduction

PART 1: NORTH PACIFIC & NORTH AMERICA
1) Isla Guadalupe – Mexico
2) Isla Clarion – Mexico
3) Isla Canal de Afuera – Panama
4) Pohnpei – Federated States of Micronesia
5) Guam – USA
6) Kabashima, Goto Retto archipelago – Japan
7) Mitarai, Inland Sea – Japan
8) Shimoda – Japan
9) Geographic Harbor, Alaska Peninsula – USA
10) Nellie’s Rest, Prince William Sound, Alaska – USA
11) Kliuchevoi Bay, Southeast Alaska – USA
12) Summers Bay, Alison Sound, British Columbia – Canada
13) Rose Harbour and S’Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia – Canada
14) Hollywood Passage, Bunsby islands, British Columbia – Canada
15) San Miguel Island, California – USA

PART I I : SOUTH PACIFIC
16) Caleta Brecknock, Tierra del Fuego – Chile
17) Puerto Eden – Chile
18) Isla Juan Fernandez (Robinson Crusoe) – Chile
19) Easter Island – Chile
20) Aukena, Iles Gambier – French Polynesia
21) Motu Haamu, Raivavae, Iles Australes – French Polynesia
22) Aitutaki – Cook Islands
23) Palmerston Atoll – Cook Islands
24) Niuatoputapu – Tonga
25) Apia – Samoa
26) Kavala Bay, Kandavu – Fiji
27) Port Resolution, Tanna – Vanuatu
28) Port Havannah, Efate – Vanuatu
29) Twin Waterfall Bay, Banks Islands – Vanuatu
30) Port Mary, Santa Ana Island – Solomon Islands
31) Lola Island, Vonavona Lagoon – Solomon Islands
32) Middle Percy Island, Queensland – Australia
33) Lizard Island, Queensland – Australia
34) Possession Island, Endeavour Strait, Queensland – Australia

PART I I I : INDIAN OCEAN AND AFRICA
35) Christmas Island – Australia
36) Cocos Keeling atoll – Australia
37) Rodrigues Island – Mauritius
38) Kraalbaai, Langebaan Lagoon – South Africa
39) Luderitz – Namibia
40) Alkwasir Island, Khartoum – Sudan

PART IV: SOUTH ATLANTIC
41) St Helena Island
42) Ascension Island
43) Fernando de Noronha – Brazil
44) Praia Cantagalo, Angra dos Reis – Brazil
45) Puerto Deseado – Argentina
46) Spaniard Harbour, Bahia Aguirre – Argentina

PART V: NORTH ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN
47) Quebec Harbour, Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior – Canada
48) Anse aux Petites Iles, Saguenay Fjord, Quebec – Canada
49) Man O’War Bay – Tobago
50) Cayo Herradura, Isla La Tortuga – Venezuela

Appendix – A Note on Charts
Index