An eight-minute podcast describing how to recognize lighthouses on nautical charts and read their descriptions. Good for sea kayakers looking to navigate in daylight or darkness.

Learning to read charts and recognize lighthouses is a valuable sea kayaking skill.

For visuals on lighthouse symbols and codes, download NOAA Chart 1, the index of symbols. Or download any NOAA chart and look for a lavendar exclamation point symbol. That’s a lighthouse. Next to to the symbol you will see a code.

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The inner shoreline areas of Massachusetts have a lot to offer the beginning sea kayaker looking for island destinations a reasonable distance from shore.

Here’s an introduction to Manchester’s Chubb Island and West Beach, the gateway to the Misery Islands.

To download a Google Map of the area showing about a dozen kayaking destinations off Manchester, go to Manchester, Ma. inshore fishing guide.

Although the map is targeted at striped bass kayak fishermen, kayakers will find the map useful for its descritpions of put-ins, hazard areas and shortcuts to waters further offshore.

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