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CHARTS AND PILOTS

Italy. Collection of marinas and ports of Mediterranean from www.1yachtua.com. The large information site for the fans of Yachting and Sailing. Already there are more than 200 plans both descriptions of marinas and ports. Author's Photo gallery of two Whitbread Races.

Admiralty Mediterranean Pilot Vol. I (NP45), Covers Sardinia, Sicily.
Admiralty Mediterranean Pilot Vol. II (NP46). Covers the west coast.
Admiralty Mediterranean Pilot Vol. III(NP47). Covers the east coast.
Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals Vol. E (NP7S).
Italian Waters Pilot. Rod Heikell. Imray. Covers the west and south coasts of Italy, offshore islands and Sardinia and Sicily.
Adriatic Pilot. T & D Thompson. Imray. Covers the east coast of Italy, as well as Yugoslavia.
The Tyrrhenian Sea. H. M. Denham. John Murray. Covers the area bordered by the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Porticcioli d'ltalia. Bruno Ziravello. The best of the Italian Pilots. In Italian only.
156 Porti d'Italia. Instituto Geografico de Agustini. Good colour photographs but covers a limited number of ports. In Italian only.

Admiralty charts cover the area well. Italian charts are available and also the excellent Nauticard International (plastic coated) charts in most of the larger centres.

USEFUL BOOKS

Blue Guides to Northern Italy. Rome and Environs. Southern Italy. Sicily. Black. The guide-books par excellence.
Collins Companion Guides to Tuscany. Archibald Lyall.
Southern Italy. Peter Gunn. Collins. Good readable guides.
A Concise History of Italy. Vincent Cronin. Cassell.
Sardinia. Virginia Waite, Batsford.
Sea and Sardinia. D. H. Lawrence. Penguin.
Italian Food. Elizabeth David. Penguin.

Italian Marinas.