With full-colorchart details and photos (both aerial and on-the-water), illustrated endsheets, and chapters on Nantucket piloting, weather, tides and currents, anchorage, history, and shoreside attractions, this book unites beauty and utility to an unusualdegree. Yacht designer Alfie Sanford has been sailing around Nantucket all hislife. When he tells us to tack over to starboard just past the green canmarking the end of the second dry shoal entering Eel Point channel, do it. He'sbeen there, and he knows.