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Best Selling Northwest Boating Guide Nav Bar -- Waggoner Cruising Guide


2010 Edition

2010 Edition,
$21.95 U.S.

"Thanks for publishing such a wonderful "bible!" We have yet to be surprised or caught unaware by following your recommendations."

-- Recent e-mail from a reader

"We've been boating for 25 years. Best guide we've ever found."

-- Gary & Joyce Clyde,
Kirkland, WA

"The Waggoner is absolutely essential."

-- Mike & Allison Lambert,
Salt Spring Island, B.C.

"We bought every guide. But when the Waggoner said how things would be, that's how they were."

-- Randy & Nancy Palley,
Trawler Glad Tidings,
Lynnwood, WA
ADVERTISE WITH THE WAGGONER

Advertiser Information
The Waggoner Cruising Guide is the annual guidebook for pleasure boating the Inside Passage waters of the Pacific Northwest—from Olympia, Wash. to Prince Rupert, B.C., and the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

The book contains complete and up-to-date information about overnight moorage at marinas and parks, anchorages, charts needed, piloting suggestions, VHF radio channels, weather stations, local knowledge, and interesting people and places along the way. The book is illustrated with 150 maps and 300 photographs.

The Waggoner was begun in 1994. It is by far the Northwest’s most popular boating guide.



Who Should Advertise
Any business whose products and services are aimed at Northwest cruising boaters should look hard at the Waggoner Cruising Guide. This includes tourism bureaus, marinas, repair facilities, supplies and equipment for boats, boat charters, boats themselves, restaurants, grocery stores, real estate, even veterinary hospitals—whatever boaters need or would expect to find.

Each year, 9 out of 10 of the Waggoner’s 220+ advertisers renew for the following year. Waggoner advertising works.



Circulation
Annual sales are in the 7500-8500 range. The 2010 print run was 9,270. Sales at the Waggoner display in the 2010 Seattle Boat Show came to just over 540 copies, a steady stream of devoted and enthusiastic Waggoner users. Repeatedly, people said the Waggoner was the “book they rely upon,” “the best guide in the Northwest,” “the one book they would not be without.” At times, people were stacked three-deep, waiting to buy their autographed copies.



Distribution
Except for Seattle Boat Show sales, most Waggoners are sold at marine supply stores, nautical chart agents, and nautical bookstores in the Northwest. Trade bookstores account for a small percentage of sales. Several hundred direct sales come from this web site.

Distribution in Canada is through Heritage House Publishers, in Surrey, B.C.



Promotion
The Waggoner has a major presence in the Robert Hale & Co. Nautical Book Wholesaler display at the Seattle Boat Show in January. (We’ve displayed at the Seattle Boat Show since 1982.)

In the spring, the Waggoner runs regular ads in yachting magazines in B.C., Puget Sound and Northern California.

Robert Hale also makes presentations at yacht club and Power Squadrons meetings each year.



Contact Us:

      by telephone or fax at:

Phone (800) 733-5330
Fax (425) 881-0731

     or by e-mail at

waggtalk@waggonerguide.com

     For more information about rates and sizes click here. Or download our printable Rate Card:

2011 Waggoner Rate Card PDF icon (1,230 KB)


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